dnalevelc

+1 big hinderance, as a semi driver it especially effects me

For the love of god please do this. I have been waiting at impound for 50 minutes - unable to RP or do a single thing because no cop will respond to the /release - that ive done every 5 minutes for 50 minutes now. That is 10 times and cops have refused to come.

Currently trucking is one of the only jobs without an actual radio. We are given a chat CB radio but this is really hard to use considering we are driving, there is a lot of missed opportunity for community and RP here. I suggest we give the trucking job a radio and radio frequency as there are a lot of truckers these days and we would have so much more of a community and roleplay between truckers if we had radios. Imagine a lively radio with codenames - full of chatter - the CB radio doesnt allow for this very well. A few of us have been working hard to stimulate roleplay in the truck chat, encouraging road names and actively getting to know eachother and telling stories - but it would be so much better if we could just talk! Like, look at how much chatter and community there is at construction, we could totally have that in trucking if we had actual radios. Please give us radios and a dedicated channel! We would so appreciate it!

thats another good point. Why is there a view button if you cant actually see the route before taking it? I wanna see it on the GPS and know where I have to go. Atleast give us addresses so we can check ourselves

**I think you mean an hour in game... as in 15 min irl. Which yes, this happens often. Completely filling a gas stations fuel - 15 min load, 3-5 min drive, 15 min unload - thats 35min irl for 1.8k. Happened to me yesterday with the speedway gas station off the highway. As of late trucking prices have really dropped. We used to get 5k orders, 6k orders, consistent 3-4k orders. Now theres only consistently 1800-2200 orders, sometimes a 2700, rarely a 3500 (but burgershot do be poppin lately so here and there) and even rarely a 5-6k order like there used to be. It makes it rough.

exactly. Currently we are punished for having our own truck, when IRL this is not the case. IRL it saves the company tons of money to hire drivers with their own trucks (insurance maintenance etc) - so irl drivers get paid more. Typically its seasoned drivers who buy their own trucks, and they get higher pay. There needs to be some sort of bonus. Especially now that the job is so popular. You used to get 5-6k orders all the time, now this is rare. Only 2400-2600ish because so many people are doing the job. If the 'seasoned' drivers who had their own trucks got like +500 or +1000 per order, it would even out. This wouldnt be an overpowered difference at all. In my case, I bought an 86k truck, painted it, added a turbo, so an investment of 136k - and I now make ~1500 per order after gas and tollgates since the job is so busy and the orders dont pay as much anymore. 1500 for driving from the city, to poleto, and back - most of the time. Something needs to be changed to balance this out.

yeah that would be nice

- In response to this, we could possibly remove the rented trucks alltogether to fix this. This would make buying a truck worth it to have access to the job - this would also remove the bottleneck, the job is so popular these days you run out of orders to take so fast and have to wait a long time before more come, and theres so many people waiting the orders go quick. Makes it hard to work. Theres too many drivers and not enough orders because the job is so popular right now. Also - we could perhaps create a second job 'Private Trucker' and make that one require a truck, service the same list of orders, and just pay more - this sounds easy to implement in my head lol

I spent 136k on a packer and turbo, and now I make less money due to the tolls and gas - something really needs to be done about this.

PLEASE!

The trucking job is a decent job and very popular right now, I think it could use some minor QoL improvements - I think every trucker could agree on this. edit 5/20: Currently we are punished for having our own truck, when IRL this is not the case. IRL it saves the company tons of money to hire drivers with their own trucks (insurance maintenance etc) - so irl drivers get paid more. Typically its seasoned drivers who buy their own trucks, and they get higher pay. There needs to be some sort of bonus. Especially now that the job is so popular. You used to get 5-6k orders all the time, now this is rare. Only 2400-2600ish because so many people are doing the job. In my case, I bought an 86k truck, painted it, added a turbo, so an investment of 136k - and I now make ~1500 per order after gas and tollgates since the job is so busy and the orders dont pay as much anymore. 1500 for driving from the city, to poleto, and back - most of the time. Something needs to be changed to balance this out. Many of us truckers spend 60-90k on a base truck, and another 40K for turbo installation. Currently you lose money using your own truck for multiple reasons - cost of vehicle, pay your own gas, repairs, and tolls, and this seems incredibly backwards. I see a few different angles to approach this - we could get a bonus for driving our own truck - this is best option imo, simply add a bonus to offset the added costs and make it worth driving your own vehicle - there could be a fee for renting a truck from the trucker HQ - this incentivizes buying your own truck as you would save the fee and make more $$ - or, make the other trucks faster than the stock one. Currently only the packer is faster than the free truck you can rent at HQ - this is also pretty silly. I wouldnt mind paying the extra fees if my truck was decently faster and saved me time. Some of the trucks you can buy, which are expensive af, make you do the job slower. Its wild. Tested this with a turbo'ed hauler and was getting past by the stock free truck every time - my stock packer (the fastest one u can buy) was getting passed by the free truck until I turbo'ed it. Multiple ways to look at it, something should be done to balance this out. Why incentivize buying your own truck, give multiple custom options to trick out a bad ass beautiful rig, then penalize us for driving our own vehicle?