

I am now a member on their Discord server, which serves players for both ATS and ETS. While playing ATS, I discovered that there is a whole community dedicated to online Trucking. And upgrading engines and parts is especially important if you want to carry heavy cargo, which brings in TONS of income (haha). There are so many parts that you can upgrade and buy parts for. The customisation for the trucks and trailers is insanely huge. So if you tell them the focus is Long Distance, that skill will improve as they complete jobs, meaning they will bring in more income. They have the same skill tree as you, but you get to choose what they should be trained in. You also need to pay for their fuel and repairs. You pay a once off fee for the driver, and then for each job they get a percentage of the income. Now why would you want to buy more trucks? Well, so you can hire drivers. Once you upgrade your garage, you can buy more trucks. The more you improve skill lines, such as Hazardous Cargo, Long Distance, Valuable Cargo, the more you remuneration you will receive for high paying jogs. You get different skill lines that you upgrade with skill points as you gain experience.

When you use company equipment, the company pays for repairs and fuel. Using your own equipment is highly beneficial and pays more, but can be costly. When you can afford your own truck, you start using it to transport company trailers with cargo until you can buy your own trailers. If you’re like me and playing the base game for the first time, you start off as a Rookie, which means taking Quick Jobs and driving other companies trucks to do deliveries for them. The DLC adds these new countries to your base game, which means news areas to explore and new landmarks to discover. So you can treat this as a review of the Base Game and the DLC.

As with that review, this is the first time I am playing Euro Truck Sim 2 itself, so I was about to experience the entire base game and the new DLC at the same time.

