Truck Driver (Big Rig)
Our server features a trucking company system, patterned off of American Truck Simulator. With this system, you start out taking Quick Jobs using the customers’ trucks. Once you’ve ranked up your skills and purchased your own truck(s), you get paid a bit more and can take more lucrative loads.
Your delivery payments are paid into your trucking company account, which is accessed from the menu where you also get jobs.
This civilian job is responsible for providing freight delivery to various locations around the state. This job uses large truck cabs like the Hauler, Packer, and Phantom. They will use large trailers, some of which spawn with random company graphics. Once you’ve reached the point to purchase your own truck(s), there are several from which to choose.
If you want to drive big trucks and/or eventually run your own trucking company, head to one of the trucking center locations at Postal 10116, Postal 4020, Postal 1017, or Postal 827, where you see the red truck trailer icon on the map. Look for the red chevron markers on the ground to access the menu. Press E and manage all things trucking related at these markers.
You start out driving for other companies with “Quick Jobs”. These loads use the customers’ trucks.
As you earn money and experience points, you can eventually “level up” and get skill points to spend, which will give you access to specialized loads requiring certifications, etc. Loads with a trophy icon in front of them are to player owned business. These actually help drive the economy, so it’s suggested you do these whenever you can and the pay matches up with your needs. Loads with a forklift icon require you to use a forklift to load cargo crates onto a flatbed trailer.
Once you’ve chosen a load, get your truck cab that is waiting for you at the blue truck marker. Back it up to the trailer waiting at the blue trailer marker. If you have difficulty getting a trailer to connect, back as close as you can to it, and try pressing J on the keyboard. (If you have a forklift required load, make sure you load your cargo on the trailer with the forklift, first.)
Then make your delivery. You’ll need to park in the correct spot to finish the load. You’ll need to get out to see the red lines marker once you’re in the general spot. Park the truck and trailer as the markers indicate. The full red bar should be where the front your truck cab is, as it gets lighter, that should be toward the rear of your truck cab. You should see a “Press E” notification to complete the load. Sometimes you may need to have the load backed in, and sometimes you may be able to park it forward. This will take some practice and patience. Then take the truck back to one of the trucking center locations, look for the floating red truck markers nearby, pull into one, and press E to store it.
If your load is damaged to a certain point, the trailer will disappear and you have lost the load. You’ll need to go park the truck back at the office and check the quick jobs or freight market for new loads. If you have issues and need to cancel your current load press and hold CAPSLOCK on your keyboard for 2-5 seconds.
Once you have purchased your own trucks, you’re officially a trucking company owner. You can drive your trucks and hire NPC drivers to drive them. Keep in mind, to keep from it being abused and exploited, NPC drivers only make money for you every so often and only when you’re logged into the server as the character that owns the trucking company. They do have a hiring cost. They also have pay deducted from the load value, and you get the profit after they’re paid. And you will have to keep an eye on their truck fuel and refuel the truck when it’s needed for them.
For extra, added enjoyment, there’s a Channel 19 – Truckers channel in our TeamSpeak so you can communicate with other truckers. You MUST use push-to-talk in this channel.
Some loads may be for player owned stores, bars, restaurants, etc. So try to run those so it helps other players stock their stores and you get paid the rate they advertised in the load listing.
WARNING; Bank Loans – If you take out one or more bank loans for your trucking company, the payments are automatically taken out every 48 hours. If you do not have enough money in your trucking account, the bank seizes your company and it is closed. They have taken everything and sold it off at auction to satisfy your loans and their legal fees and court costs. There’s no re-imbursement for this if it happens to you, and there’s no way for us to exclude players that may be away for a while, regardless of reason.