Forfeiture costs is when your drivers don't complete their deliveries for whatever reason. As for crappy trucks, and lazy drivers. It could be a combination of both. Make sure you have good "up-graded" trucks. You could also adjust your drivers distance of travel, type of loads, etc. on the panel to the right. I always max out my trucks before I hire new drivers. When hiring new drivers, make sure they are the top rank that you can afford. You could also pay them a little more too. A lot of adjustments are trial & error. What works for me may not work for you, or your type of driver.

hello to all :!: ..can someone help me with a problem..i don't understand why can't i buy more licenses to warehouses ? it says : your turnover restricts your business deals to 14 warehouses. Operation rejected :cry:.. I have only 13/38 ....ohh..and this thing doesn't let's me to buy a truck either :cry:.. THANK YOU !!! :-)

Hello, and welcome to the forum.

Please read up on the forum rules & look at the stickies before you post. Most questions are answered in the prominent easy to find stickies (Green Arrows).

Your question has been asked, and answered in this thread. Backtrack, and look for my postings here. In short you need to buy more trucks & hire drivers for each truck before you can purchase a new office. For your second question, you have to go to "Nick's Office", then "Manage Fleet" to buy a truck.

How I do that
 

You can manualy balance the drivers but if i do that that system is pretty dificult but annyway what truck can i give them so they make some decent money in the game ???

Making money is not solely based on what truck you have. That's just personal preference. What you need to do is get the truck you like with the least amount of wear & tear (mileage). Than max it out for performance (not looks). Keep repeating this process. Assign delivery task as needed. Give the fastest truck to a driver with no tickets, and let him race. This gives the most cash, in the shortest amount of time. Long deliveries gives the most cash, but takes longer. Fragile loads will also increase income. This is a balancing act that takes some time to get use to. Most people are impatient, and want quick results, and find themselves in your position.

It's not how many drivers you have. It's how many offices you have. You indicated that you have 40 drivers in another post. For me that's just way too many, and is very costly. You can win these awards alluding you with just 10 drivers. I did it twice. Think of how much money you spent on 40 trucks at about $100K a pop, plus equipment, and repairs. Remember your drivers are also gassing up, and repairing too. You must have ran through $4 million+, and I'm being conservative. With my 10 drivers, I had about $6 million in the bank.

There are many ways to play this game. I only gave you my version. I'm sure others have their own strategy that suits them. Plan your business management from the start, and stick with it. All this is based on what type of game you want to play, and what you want to achieve.

I Understand
 

I read the forum step by step gut some usefull tips I would never figure out so quick. But you said USA Trucker that you should realy do the story line first and from there start your company ? TRUE??

I drive now Ventura Titan hell off a truck I must add better then that darn Argosy but how do I beat the competitors to win the seccond golden medal ?

I going to just try it out start a new game ???

Thank greets from Trucker NL

Yes, for those that want to do it. It has a large reward when finished $$$. It also raises your Rank & Rating to hire better drivers.
You have to find a strategy that works for you. I've already given you mine.
Please don't ask SPOILER, HINTS & CHEAT questions outside of their proper thread.

I'm not quite sure where to put this one. I'm intentionally holding off on the storyline side for now, hence any stuff from south of oxnard I have to go up thru barstow. Anyway, I've run into a weird thing and want to know if anyone else has also run into this on their game...

I picked up a load in SD for Colfax and went thru barstow and mojave, then turned for lone pine. Bout halfway to LP, I suddenly get this weird window about delivery cancelation, and I'm really sure I had the trailer hooked on at the time etc... But I sit dumbfounded staring at this delivery canceled notice.

The competition was all going on I 5, but yeah, I'm like huh? Its the strangest thing... the game is on hard setting, but I never saw that ever before where the game takes the trailer from you without no reasonable explanation.

Anyone else come accross this oddness?

Also, just something to note, if you start on hard, do the initial tasks, and then go to a far off branch you have like reno or bishop and stay away from oxnard doing deliveries between the areas. You can snag up to 3-4 branches by yourself on the east side of the map before you need drivers. At least, that works for me.

Many reasons qualify for cancelation of a load. They are as follows:

Exceeded time limit for current load.
Picking up another load while already carrying one.
Taking on a mission requiring you to drop your current load.
Somehow lost your load/trailer (happened to me once).
Or just simply a bug (it’s not un-common).

First time for me to see it...

Was rereading this thread and it occured to me that one another profile, had a game in which a hired driver had low forteit/maintenance costs, but she was spending upwards of $15k a day on fuel. Yes, you read that right. $15 THOUSAND a DAY on fuel. I eventually just fired her I think, as she was losing money...

As for someone somewhere here commenting on truck blowing up [not sure which thread]. That is likely a situation where you're not doing any accel at all [coasting], and you hit the nitro, then decide to hit the gas... Thats how a truck exploded on me once.

That’s why I read up on any driver I want to hire. All of them I subject to a week of game time trial. If they make me good money, I keep them. Regardless of truck expenditures. If she was making $50K a day, and spent $15K on gas, I would keep her/him.;)

As to your second sentence... that sounds logical.

You need to read some postings. This was covered in post #109.;)

I've run across another problem, and I don't know if it has been discussed before, but I can not find anything about it anywhere. When you purchase a truck, let's say an extra truck, it wont let me choose the trucks for other drivers. they are automatically assigned a truck, and for some reason they are using a truck I don't want them to use. Any way around this? I click on the button next to the truck name in Manage Drivers, and it only shows that one truck, and not a list to choose from.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Again thanks in advance.

As far as I've been playing, your hired drivers will choose the truck. This is one reason why I only purchase one extra truck, upgrade it, and then hire a driver for it. Otherwise it's just a matter of pot luck.;)

I did that, but when i went to switch my trucks from the one i was driving to the one i bought, the drivers i had drove the truck i was driving, and I didn't want them to.

You've misunderstood me. You have to buy a truck before you hire a driver. Then switch trucks, and use the new one to upgrade. The old truck will be listed at the top, and the new one on the bottom. Then hire a driver, and they will drive your old truck. You don't get to choose which truck they drive if you have more than one truck available on top. Therefore it's best to do this one truck, and one driver at a time. Don't hire the driver until you're satisfied of the switch.

My problem is that i have 3 trucks a FLD120, 9500 and my Argosy. When I buy a new truck and switch the new one to me, the driver that was driving the Argosy drives my previous truck and the other driver stays on the 9500, while my Argosy is not used. Basically I don't want the drivers driving trucks with mods as that costs more for repairs. At least that is how i understand the game physics.

If you have 3 trucks in reserve, and 2 drivers. The 2 drivers will randomly pick 2 of the 3 trucks in reserve. You have no control over this. One truck will remain unused until you hire a third driver, and they will once again randomly pick their trucks.

Without both of us running around in circles, here is my point. Don’t have more drivers than trucks. Don’t have more trucks than drivers. When you have fully upgraded your truck, go to the office, and buy a new truck, putting the upgraded truck in reserve. Hire a new driver to drive the upgraded truck, and you upgrade your new truck. Repeating this porcess over, and over until you have the fleet, and drivers you want.

Having a truck in reserve is a waste of time, and money without a driver, and having a driver without a truck will drain your funds.

You should be letting your drivers use the upgraded trucks to have them make the optimum amount of money, be happy, and loyal. Driving an truck without upgrades will cost you more in the long run. Would you want to work for a company that kept giving you a crappy truck. Sit back and think about that for a minute, and you’ll realize it’s best to have your drivers using upgraded trucks.

New Truck
 

hi everyone, i'm playing RnR a long time, but i don't know how to buy this truck in game. Who can tell me what i have to do to buy this truck. Thanks all ^^!
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this's truck which i wanna buy, i can't post image to 4rum :(
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?c1cn8j21cm14uxb

I'm curious about the "Felonies" that appear on prospective drivers' resumes.

If they have felonies, are they likely to be denied certain assignments once they reach a warehouse?

Or could it be that a driver with a ranking in (for instance) the low 700s who has committed a felony will perform at the level of a felony-free driver ranked in, say the mid-900s?

In other words, are prospective drivers with a "Yes" in the "Felonies" box less desirable, as they may be denied some work, or are they more desirable as employees, as the stigma of their criminal records may be artificially lowering their ranking (and consequently the wages you need to pay them)?



Another possibility is that it makes no difference at all, but if so, I can't see why the extra bit of programming required to include this feature was deemed necessary.


There must be a reason for the inclusion of this bit of driver data...right? :confused:





Tangentially, I would like to note that I may finally have made a post in the correct thread. Imagine. :D

If you've got two drivers, one with a high percentage of wins and the other who handles fragile loads well, and two trucks, one with a maxed-out engine and base suspension and the other with base engine and maxed-out suspension, the competition driver will tend to gravitate toward the faster truck, and the other toward the one with more load protection.

This is with truck selection set to "Auto". You may also set the truck selection criteria for each driver manually.

In the "Manage Drivers" window, you will see a "Truck Selection" box (I think that's what it's called...shockingly, I don't have R'n'R going right now), with a button marked "Auto" at the bottom, and three sliders inside, one each for speed, load protection, and wear.

If you have a driver (Driver A) for whom speed is the primary criteria in truck selection, move the "Speed" slider to the right.

If you have a driver (Driver B) who doesn't win many competitions but has a high fragility rating, move the "Load Protection" slider to the right.

(This assumes you have already adjusted their assignment settings)

Suppose you have a third driver (Driver C), who does pretty good in competition, and handles fragile loads as well as Driver B, and a third truck. You'd want to set the "Load Protection" slider to the right in Diver C's settings as well, and you'd also want to set the "Speed" slider towards the right as well, although perhaps not as far as you did for driver A.

So, if you move driver A's Speed slider all the way to the right, and load protection all the way to the left, his truck will be selected based on speed, with no consideration to load protection.

If you move Driver C's Speed all the way to the right as well, but move load protection even slightly away from the far left, speed will be just as big a factor in choosing a vehicle, but it will choose the fastest vehicle with the best suspension (or a compromise thereof).

This will give them the best truck for the job...or in any case, it will give them the truck that best matches what you have determined are important characteristics for each driver to have in a truck.

Note: Setting "Speed" all the way to the right may not translate into a driver getting the fastest truck. It just means that speed is a greater priority in assigning that driver a vehicle.


If your drivers are selecting trucks based primarily on speed, and the truck you would like to keep in reserve as your own is the fastest one there, they will be assigned that truck, as it is the most efficient allocation of your company's resources.


EDIT:

Here's a potentially useful tip: Before you park your personal reserve truck, downgrade the engine or suspension (whatever feature they're looking for when they take it). Then, once you want to drive it again (using the My Truck button), take it to a truck stop and have the upgrades re-installed. The truck shops always reimburse you in full when you downgrade to a lower-priced option, and only charge for parts on upgrades (labor is apparently free), so you won't lose any money by doing this.

Hello, and welcome to the forum.

Where did you take this picture, or see this truck? I don't remember it in R'n'R, but it does look like one in 18WoS.

@Strummer,
Please don't double post. If you have something to add, use your 'EDIT' key to edit your original post, or to add comments. Also I have not noticed any real advantage, or disadvantage with regards to the “Felony” issue you posted. It could be that they get more tickets than other drivers with clean records that would result in lower income due to fines, but I’m only guessing. If your felony driver is making a good positive cash flow, then I wouldn’t be too concerned with it.

Your other post about drivers is very useful, and informative. I have posted a similar version some months ago along with another member. However, sometimes it just doesn’t always work when you set the “Auto” button off. They still tend to select a truck at random to a certain degree, but will try to conform to your settings if they are not similar in your criteria settings. This is why I max out all my trucks, and let them pick. It also has less repair cost, and down time. The only thing I adjust is the type of load I want them to do such as Racing, Fragile, Long/Short loads. This way it doesn’t matter which truck they pick if they are all at maximum. It works best for me, and their income is way up, especially when I pay a little more in wages to keep them loyal.:)

i know this car in 18 Wos, i took this picture on internet. But in this picture, we can see it don't have so many things differents with Rnr, cause i think in Rnr have this truck too. but i haven't seen this truck, cause i post here to answer ^^! Thanks u so much ^^!

Maybe some day we’ll get more trucks, or someone can come up with a sophisticated mod program to get this, and other trucks.:)

I recently buy a office in Lebec, but can"t find it. Can you help?