Hired Drivers/Management, New Trucks, Income, Offices, & Related Questions.

[USA Trucker]

Originally Posted by truck_74

Hello, I'm new here in the forum, first I should explain that I am from Brazil and my English is not good, so I'm using and I'll use Google to translate that hinder the understanding las.Se please tell me.

My questions are very basic to begin:

1 There is as light up the cab of the truck?

For me to buy more companies have to hire more drivers?

Many thanks to all now and congratulations for the excellent forum.

Thank you all.

Hello, and welcome to the forum.

I just want to elaborate on DriverX3 post. I can only assume that you may mean the interior cabin overhead lights. There is no switch to turn those on. Maybe someone could make a Mod someday.

Make sure when you hire drivers, that you have a truck for them to drive, or he/she will drain your income with his/her salary.

[bjorn324]

Hello

I am busy with doing some research on my drivers. I noticed a lot of them are losing money based on the ROI display. Especially my highest ranked driver, rank: 858.
Also a lot of drivers have high forfeit costs. What does this mean, crappy trucks or lazy drivers.

[USA Trucker]

Originally Posted by bjorn324

Hello

I am busy with doing some research on my drivers. I noticed a lot of them are losing money based on the ROI display. Especially my highest ranked driver, rank: 858.
Also a lot of drivers have high forfeit costs. What does this mean, crappy trucks or lazy drivers.

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.

[scaniaman500]

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 .. I have only 13/38 ....ohh..and this thing doesn't let's me to buy a truck either .. THANK YOU !!!

[USA Trucker]

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.

[TruckerNL]

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 ???

[USA Trucker]

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.

[TruckerNL]

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

[USA Trucker]

Originally Posted by TruckerNL

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??

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.

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 ?

You have to find a strategy that works for you. I've already given you mine.

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

Thank greets from Trucker NL

Please don't ask SPOILER, HINTS & CHEAT questions outside of their proper thread.

[DuallyDiesel]

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.