Multiple Trailers in Traffic - ETS2 - v1.49.1

[Mr Larrington]

Executive summary: All the trailers SCS didn't think you needed. Plus some other Stuffs.

Where it came from:
Someone anonymous did one for earlier versions of both games but it didn't get updated after an SCS update. It was credited to Jazzycat but although it used his truck models it never appeared on his web site, so I assume his participation was without his knowledge. This one is based on what the original did, but only uses SCS models, has been kept more or less up to date and has had extra bits added to it.

What it does:
Adds drawbar double, HCT double and B-Double trailers in ETS2 traffic. At least, that was the initial scope. It has, like Topsy, just growed.

What's in the box:

ETS2 Double Trailers In Traffic Base

• Curtainsiders, dryvans, insulated trailers and reefers in drawbar double, B-double and HCT versions.
• B-double, drawbar double and HCT gooseneck trailers with container and tank cargo.
• Double and HCT silo trailers.
• Versions of all SCS traffic trucks to pull them with.
• Easter eggs.
• No dry ice or flying pigs.

ETS2 Extra Double Trailers In Traffic

• SCS flatbed double trailers with assorted cargo.
• SCS log double trailers also with assorted cargo.
• This is packaged as a separate mod because of the licence plate issue - see below.
• REQUIRES ETS2 DOUBLE TRAILERS IN TRAFFIC BASE MOD.

ETS2 Single Trailer Traffic

• Expanded range of default SCS single trailers - more colors/cargo.
• A few trailers which SCS didn't include.
• Revised spawning for empty trailers. No-one wants to see empty trailers. Do they?
• REQUIRES ETS2 DOUBLE TRAILERS IN TRAFFIC BASE MOD.

ETS2 Feldbinder DLC Traffic

• Feldbinder EUT32 doubles.
• REQUIRES ETS2 DOUBLE TRAILERS IN TRAFFIC BASE MOD AND FELDBINDER DLC.

ETS2 Heavy Cargo DLC Traffic

• Heavy Cargo Pack DLC cargo on assorted lowbed & low-loader trailers.
• REQUIRES HEAVY CARGO PACK DLC.

ETS2 High Power Cargo DLC Traffic

• High Power Cargo Pack DLC cargo on assorted lowbed & low-loader trailers.
• REQUIRES HIGH POWER CARGO PACK DLC.

ETS2 Krone DLC Traffic

• Profiliner/Proficarrier and Profiliner HCT trailers.
• Profiliner HD flatbeds with full range of cargo.
• REQUIRES ETS2 DOUBLE TRAILERS IN TRAFFIC BASE MOD AND KRONE DLC.

ETS2 Oversize Trailers DLC Traffic

• Traffic versions of all the oversize cargo from the DLC.
• Plus the SEEKRIT railway wagon hidden under a tarp!
• REQUIRES OVERSIZE (SPECIAL TRANSPORT) DLC.

ETS2 Volvo Construction DLC Traffic

• Volvo Construction DLC cargo on assorted lowbed, low-loader and flatbed trailers.
• REQUIRES VOLVO CONSTRUCTION DLC.

ETS2 Cement Mixer

• Adds SCS concrete mixer trailer in traffic plus the yellow version in the freight market.
• STANDALONE MOD.

ETS2 Double Trailers For Cargo

• Allows double SCS trailers for cargo-carrying in areas outwith the base/DLC maps.
• And the same thing for Jazzycat's doubles (if using Jazzy's Trailers & Cargo Pack).
• STANDALONE MOD.

NEW in v1.49.1 Painted Traffic Pack by Jazzycat

• Traffic versions of the double trailers Jazzycat's Trailers & Cargo mod - drawbar double and HCT versions.
• Trucks from Jazzycat's Painted BDF Traffic Pack with dollies & trailers from Jazzycat Painted Truck Traffic & Trailers And Cargo Packs, viz.
• Mercedes Actros trucks with 20' containers, towing 2x20', 40' and 45' container trailers. Only seven trucks, alas, though container skins in the same format are not difficult to find. Including them would require changing Jazzycat's .pmd file so this has been left as an Exercise for the Reader.
• Variety of curtainsider, dryvan and reefer trucks with matching trailers, albeit that some companies have different ideas about what constitutes a "matching" paint job.
• REQUIRES JAZZYCAT'S PAINTED BDF, PAINTED TRUCK, and TRAILERS & CARGO MODS AND THE ETS2 DOUBLE TRAILERS IN TRAFFIC BASE MOD. Current version built using BDF v15.1, Painted Truck v18.3 and Trailers & Cargo v11.9.1 so may not work properly - or at all - with older versions of these mods.
• This tends only to get updated when I'm cat-stting for my ex-wife because matching trucks and trailers gives me a headache, even with a degree of automation.

NEW in v1.49.1 Unpainted Traffic Pack by Jazzycat

• Trucks from Jazzycat's Truck Traffic Pack with dollies & SCS trailers - flatbed and log trailers.
• REQUIRES JAZZYCAT'S TRUCK MOD1 AND THE ETS2 DOUBLE TRAILERS IN TRAFFIC BASE MOD. Current version built using v9.1.3 fot he Truck Traffic mod so may not work properly - or at all - with an older version.

ETS2 Arnook Doubles

• Combines SCS double container carriers - b-double, drawbar double and HCT - with Arnook's painted containers and frame tanks.
• Also includes LCV trailers which will appear if used in conjunction with the Painted LCV Traffic Pack by Jazzycat mod (see above).
• REQUIRES ETS2 DOUBLE TRAILERS IN TRAFFIC BASE MOD AND ARNOOK'S CONTAINER PACK MOD. Built using V16 of the latter.

ETS2 Double Trucks For CIP Sound Mod

• SCS & Jazzycat trucks from these mods adapted to use CIP's improved sound mod.
• REQUIRES ETS2 DOUBLE TRAILERS IN TRAFFIC BASE MOD AND MUST BE PLACED ABOVE IT (AND THE OVERSIZE TRAILERS/LCV MODS IF INSTALLED) IN THE MOD MANAGER.

NEW in v1.49 ETS2 ProMods Fix

• ProMods adds some some extra traffic lane Stuffs which don't have double trailers. Put this mod above ProMods for full compatibility.

What it looks like:

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Double by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

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HCT by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

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Krone by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

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Heavy by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

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High Power by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

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Oversize by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

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Volvo by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

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Cargo by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

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LCV Container by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

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LCV by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

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LCV Unpainted by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

Real companies mods should replace the SCS skins with their own. The mod has improved truck colours, courtesy of the inestimable cipinho formerly of this parish, who also pointed me in the right direction over the traffic rules which make the whole thing work. Kudos also due to mr.peterbilt for advising me that Special Transport trailers now work in traffic. I'm sure they used not to...

Where we are now:

Version v1.49.1 for ETS2 v1.49: Mr_Larrington__x27_s_ETS2_Traffic_Mods_v1.49.1.7z - 22.7 MB <== Created 2023-12-01 22:03 GMT

• Revamped DLC Oversize addon to reduce their numbers.
• More cargo for Krone and SCS flatbeds.
• ADR variants for insulated, reefer & curtainsider trailers.
• Split the largest def files to (hopefully) prevent model caching errors.
• New LCV truck/trailer combos.
• Fix Arnook addon to work with V16 of the Container mod.
• New in v1.49.1...
• ETS2_Jazzycat_LCV renamed to ETS2_Jazzycat_Painted.
• ETS2_Jazzycat_Doubles merged with ETS2_Jazzycat_Painted.
• New mod: ETS2_Jazzycat_Unpainted adds LCV flatbeds and log trucks.
• New set of double trucks in the base mod. These are identical to the originals except that they ONLY haul double gooseneck and double flatbed trailers with container, tank, site office, generator and mixed construction cargo and their spawn ratio is 1/3 that of the regular ones. This means much more balanced numbers of double trailers.
• ETS2_High_Spawn_Frequency_Trailers discontinued. This was a PITA to maintain and never worked very well anyway.
• ETS2_Low_Spawn_Frequency_Trailers also discontinued. This was also a PITA to maintain and never worked very well anyway.
• Increased spawn ratios for lowbed and lowloader trailers.
• Single trailer traffic mod now plays nicely with ProMods ME.

Known issues:

• Some trailers can arrive before their wheels do. If you get this, open your config.cfg file in a text editor and change:

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  uset g_lod_factor_traffic "1"
  

  to

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  uset g_lod_factor_traffic "5"
  

  The game sometimes sets the graphics mode back to "1970s calculator" after a crash, so keep a backup copy of your config.cfg file handy.
• Some trailer skins - both from SCS and other modders - are not optimised for the short trailers (drawbar double rear/B-Double front), so writing and/or logos fall off one end.
• The trailers have an occasional tendency to tie themselves in knots and/or sink into the road surface.
• The trailers appear on AI-only roads even in countries where they're not supposed to be. I don't think the game's country rules are applied to these roads.
• Disembodied licence plates on flatbed, gooseneck and log double trailers, like wot used to happen with the HCT dollies before we got a new one. These trailers are all in the Extra Double Trailers mod so if they annoy you too much just uninstall the mod - other mods in the package will be unaffected.
• The rear lights of some trailers derived from owned ones are rather ineffective.
• The dollies attached to the Mercedes Antos trucks in the LCV may look a bit odd, because the Ringfeder on the trucks is in a different place - higher and further back - from the other trucks. Hence they use the ATS dolly with smaller wheels, otherwise the front dolly wheels would be completely off the ground.

See the description text files in the mod for the countries/regions in which the trailers appear, and how to make them appear everywhere if that's what you want.

If you are using cipinho's traffic density mod then it must go ABOVE the double trailers mod in the mod manager. The doubles MIGHT work with other traffic density mods but I haven't tried them.

You are actively encouraged to take these mods apart to see how they work and put your own trucks and trailers in it. To this end, the package will always be free and able to be unpacked without resorting to any funny business.

Previous versions:

v1.49 Mr_Larrington__x27_s_ETS2_Traffic_Mods_v1.49.7z - 24.8 MB

v1.48.5 Mr_Larrington__x27_s_ETS2_Traffic_Mods_v1.48.5.7z - 24.3 MB
v1.48.4 Mr_Larrington__x27_s_ETS2_Traffic_Mods_v1.48.4.7z - 24.7 MB
v1.48.3 Mr_Larrington__x27_s_ETS2_Traffic_Mods_v1.48.3.7z - 24.7 MB
ETS2_Low_Spawn_Frequency_Trailers.scs - 2.1 MB - just the Low Spawn Frequency Trailers mod from the above
v1.48.2 Mr_Larrington__x27_s_ETS2_Traffic_Mods_v1.48.2.7z - 24.4 MB
v1.48: Mr_Larrington__x27_s_ETS2_Traffic_Mods_v1.48.7z - 24.4 MB

v1.47.1: Mr_Larrington__x27_s_ETS2_Traffic_Mods_v1.47.1.7z - 22.7 MB
ETS2_double_trailers_in_traffic_base.scs - 17.7 MB - just the base mod from the above
v1.47: Mr_Larrington__x27_s_ETS2_Traffic_Mods_v1.47.7z - 22.7 MB. Update for 1.47.

v1.46: ETS2_Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v1.46.7z - 17.2 MB. Update for v1.46.

v1.45: ETS2_Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v1.45.7z - 17.1 MB. Update for v1.45.

v1.44: ETS2_Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v1.44.7z - 15.3 MB. Proper version for v1.44.
v1.44: ETS2_v1.44_Quick_Fix.scs - 20 KB. Quick fix for v1.43 mod to work with v1.44.

v1.43: ETS2_Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v1.43.7z - 6.0 MB. Update for v1.43.

v1.42: ETS2_Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v1.42.7z - 5.1 MB. Update for v1.42.

v8.0: ETS2_Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v8.0.7z - 1.6 MB. Update for v1.41.

v7.1: ETS2_Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v7.1.7z - 3.0 MB. Update for DLC Iberia.
v7.0: ETS2_Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v7.0.7z - 3.0 MB. Update for v1.40.

v6.1: ETS2_Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v6.1.7z - 3.0 MB. Update for v1.39.
v6.0: ETS2_Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v6.0.7z - 1.5 MB. It's small because there's no sound files. In it.

v5.1: ETS2_Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v5.1.7z - 14.5 MB. Fix "No country specific data available for trailer type 'double'" error
v5.0: ETS2_Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v5.0.7z - 14.5 MB. Update for ETS2 v1.36.

v4.1: ETS2_Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v4.1.7z - 15.2 MB. Updated for compatibility with ProMods v2.41.
v4.0: ETS2_Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v4.0.7z - 15.2 MB. Updated for ETS2 v1.35.

v3.2: ETS2_Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v3.2.7z - 14.1 MB. ETS2-only version for v1.34.
v3.1.1: Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v3.1.1.7z - 31.2 MB. Version for v1.33.2.19 and above. Last .7z file to contain the mods for both ETS2 and ATS.
v3.1: Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v3.1.7z - 31.2 MB. Added cipinho's sound improvements.
v3.0: Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v3.0.7z - 14.5 MB. Version for v1.33

v2.0: Multiple_Trailers_in_Traffic_v2.0.7z - 14.3 MB. Version for v1.32.

[B787]

Very nice! Sadly SCS is not adding this stuff on their own...

[mizterkewl]

For some reason the country restrictions don't work with this mod. I think its because of the spawn ratio line inside the def file. I tried to delete it and see if it works but it doesn't. Is there a way to make this mod work with restrictions?

[cip]

Known issues:

• Some trailers - notably the B-double fronts, the short rears and both ends of the Profiliner double - arrive before their wheels do

the solution for this is to modify in config or console:

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g_lod_factor_traffic 5

the default is 1. with 5 the wheels will no longer come later

[x_Puppy_Paws_x]

Does the addon for Baltic go above or below the "base" mod? Or does loadorder not matter?

[Mr Larrington]

@Dark81Wolf - the add-on needs to go ABOVE the main mod as it adds an extra truck vehicle type to tow the new trailers.

[x_Puppy_Paws_x]

ok thank you for the answer, just making sure i activate it on the right spot

[LAFAYET47]

this is a great mod, fits really well with Scandinavia and Finland. I have a reasonable performance playing with low-end hardware, cant say the same with Jazzycat traffic mods...

Btw, I would like to ask you one question. How can I tweak the HCT in Finland for less spawn? I have a feeling that they appear too often, at least for my taste. Doubles and B-doubles on the other hand are quite fine.

[SrRuan_BR]

I wanted to see an update of this mod, it's one of the ones I like to use in my game

[mizterkewl]

I'm looking through the files and i can't scratch the surface with what to do when the files are in .sui format. I dunno if using trailer_chains[] will work for these files. I edited an old Solaris76 tandem file that had 25m and it works fine because it was a simple edit.