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

[USA Trucker]

Originally Posted by charlytos

How puts USA trucker, adding how is logical acquire truck and driver money goes down. I started session, acquiring 2 basic trucks and hiring 2 drivers, having down rest money.
How initally only can go to warehouse around of Nick trucking office and money received by travel is short. Then shall need long time making travels me and my drivers to recover money and acquire the third truck hiring new driver too!...
Except to make long travel out of Nick trucking influence zone, getting high money and recover money put on trucks and drivers more rapidly. Returning to influence zone with empty truck!...

If I understand this correctly, I'll take a shot.

When you travel outside your zone of influence with a load you obtained from within your zone of influence you will always come back empty. This holds true for your hired drivers. The programs warns you of this when you attempt to do it in your warehouse. Therefore if it happens to you, it will also happen to your drivers. When I start out with a small zone of influence I usually set the drivers to short/medium distance until I get more office's. I hope I got this right, and it helped you.

[charlytos]

USA trucker, thanks to reply and give me suggestions. Basically you have put me the same idea that I put for cyrus, only changes that your words are more correctly written!...

[mark39]

can someone clarify if having the trucks you give to your hired drivers maxed out makes any difference to how much they earn or could you just give them base models,the reason why i ask this is because it takes a fair bit of cash to buy a truck and then max it out,now according to the planning screen in your office under the global stats section if you click on the little box in the bottom left hand corner it tells you about the california golden carrier thingy that basically says whoever signs upto all the warehouses ie gets 100% coverage you get the title and a big reward,so basically its going to take me forever to get loads of drivers to have enough turnover to get all the offices and all the other companies are way way in front,example;storm already have 25 drivers and 75% coverage so does it make any difference if your drivers have maxed out trucks or not,hope anybody reading this understands what i mean...

[USA Trucker]

Originally Posted by mark39

can someone clarify if having the trucks you give to your hired drivers maxed out makes any difference to how much they earn or could you just give them base models,the reason why i ask this is because it takes a fair bit of cash to buy a truck and then max it out,now according to the planning screen in your office under the global stats section if you click on the little box in the bottom left hand corner it tells you about the california golden carrier thingy that basically says whoever signs upto all the warehouses ie gets 100% coverage you get the title and a big reward,so basically its going to take me forever to get loads of drivers to have enough turnover to get all the offices and all the other companies are way way in front,example;storm already have 25 drivers and 75% coverage so does it make any difference if your drivers have maxed out trucks or not,hope anybody reading this understands what i mean...

Yes, the better your truck is the better your drivers are. Less repairs, faster in racing, and if you have the double gas tank, naturally they'll spend less time in the gas station. Another thing to remember is that when you hire a driver, get the one with the most experience. They cost more, but the rate of return is better. Also for those of you that don't know.... It is best not to hire drivers until you complete the story line. The reason is that your rating will be very high, and you can hire even more experienced drivers. I like drivers with over 1500 experience. Don't settle for less then 1200. When I completed the story line I had a 2200+ rating. So I hired 2 drivers, both with over 1800 experience. I had 2 fully loaded trucks that I used in the story line in reserve. You can't hire drivers higher than your own rating. After that, whenever I could get my hands on a new truck I just kept adding them to my fleet, hired drivers, and expanded my office's.

I hope this clarified things for you, and others.

[mark39]

ok thx for that usa trucker will have to revise my hired drivers then,looks like some are about to be fired..lol

[Starflyer]

Maybe its the same problem like mine.

Look at their loyality when you hired them. If the bar for their loan is on auto, it could be, that their loyality is zero and they quit immediatly.
And to pay them the loan for their loyality, their income will be only 50% in course of their loan.

[charlytos]

USA trucker you have put a previous reply to mark39 putting detail to acquire double gas tank. Having made several travels I have not seen that double gas tank until now. Is possible how is with other trucks, which be truck used different items will be on different garages, is thing only to search it with great patience!...

[jestertac]

Just wondering about the income of the branches. Says I have X amount in a branch that hasnt been released. DOes it do it automatically or do I have to get it. Not really understanding Thank you.

[USA Trucker]

Originally Posted by jestertac

Just wondering about the income of the branches. Says I have X amount in a branch that hasnt been released. DOes it do it automatically or do I have to get it. Not really understanding Thank you.

Not sure what you mean by the term "released". The money you see in your journal, or your office is the money you have from all branches in total, including the drivers working for you. Unless you mean the drivers that are heading to a warehouse, and have not delivered their loads yet.