ATS Special Transport

[flight50]

I hope the blades we can haul are fairly long. At least as long as the HH trailer with spreader. The pic from the blog looks like an underside blade. Could be the angle but that blade should be as wide as the truck at least and possibly just hang over the rear speaker. They are 120ft plus (36.5m) in length.

[supersobes]

Yes, in real-life oversize loads can only move at certain times of the day, especially around large cities to avoid rush hour and around holidays to avoid holiday traffic. I made a thread a long time ago with a source that lists the regulations for oversize loads in each state and province.

[SmokeyWolf]

@supersobes some states you can run at night too. Just depends on deminsions of said piece. Overlength can normally run at night.

Some states are limited to 55 mph pulling oversize loads.

[flight50]

In ATS, I hate running even HH at night. I like to keep an eye on my rear. I take a lot of back roads because they are the most enjoyable. But one must always need to know where the rear is unless you don't car about getting damage or fines for causing collisions.

[howey]

I've been thinking about HH about if they will extend it with more states and industries suitable for HH cargo. The Colorado industries blog recently revealed some more possibilities for HH cargo machinery, i'm sure with Idaho they can venture into more cargo variety as well with farming, mining and construction> I'm hoping Idaho surprises us with a farming DLC (wishful thinking) and if it did can only hope they add a few more farming related equipment for the HH side of things.

[flight50]

@howey you and me both buddy. A farming dlc with Idaho would blow my lil mind, lol. Anything that helps Idaho would be justified. We do know that Idaho gets Special Transport from the blog it got the other day. Colorado gets wind turbines which should also be HH/ST cargo. I just hope SCS revisit other states so that we can haul outside of Colorado. For ST loads, we won't get to go very far. But considering trains do haul this stuff, every state that has wind farms, we should be able to haul this stuff. So, I'd add it to the global list of ST cargo.

There are different lengths of blades and towers. Some parts might fit on standard trailers we have now. Some might go on the HH trailers but extend it like the chopper cargo currently does. Orrrrrrrrr, we could get a new extend pole trailer in ATS. Obviously in ATS the blades can't be this long. But 75% of that should be fine. A new extended pole trailer can also be used for bridge supports. So no telling what we get but new cargo is coming at least.

[howey]

@flight50 you mentioning the lengths of the wind blades and also the extended pole trailer is the main question I thinking on how SCS will tackle this.

1 I'm am kind of hoping that there would be a variety of blade sizes and lengths perhaps so it can suit flatbeds, HH & ST with even a extendable flatbed trailer option to cart them around. With this paragraph in the recent blog "So it's no surprise that Colorado is home to the number one wind turbine company in the USA, with a highly trained workforce that builds more towers than any other facility in the world. With unique parts and equipment always on the move from the factory to wind farms across the states, we hope you will be a BIG fan of this industry" could give us the option to haul the smaller & medium size and length blades to rail and ship ports for export, i'm just looking at ideas on how they could go about this.

The second thing is how they would go about it when it comes to the larger longer blades, afaik on the extended poles trailers there is either a pilot assisting on one group of axles on steering the trailer around bends and corners or they are remote controlled especially when hitting populated areas, so i'm wondering how they will tackle that considering there is nothing like that in the game atm.

You basically read my mind about the pole trailer being used for bridge supports/beams as well, I'm sure there even used on major concrete and gas pipes as well for major projects.

[Sametbey2]

In fact, ATS private transportation is a little disappointing for me. Because it was released 1 year after ETS2 and most cargoes are similar to ETS2. And there are no new warning lights. But it's still nice to support ATS map expansions as soon as they become available. In addition, some cargoes are in absurd regions. What is a mining truck doing at the shipyard in Portland?

We agree on this. SCS previously mentioned private shipping in the Darwing blog post. But we couldn't see an airplane body load. Indeed, some new states may have new special loads, I love this idea.

[flight50]

@howey I to hope for various sizes. That's what I was implying indeed. The longest one though should be ST only. And it won't be to real life length. ATS is not build to go handle that long. The longest I'd go is the longest articulated trailer which is the 9 axle trailer. The main reason, ATS roads are half the width of real life roads. Plus the articulated trailer has 3 pivot points. If we get the extend pole, we only get 2 pivots on the trailer but the blades/beams would get pivots affixed to the articulated trailers. Same for the towers. So those two turbine parts should get escorts. Anything smaller, can go on HH and non piloted transport.

@Sametbey2 all the cargo in ATS needs to be overhauled. There are several cargoes that go to places or picked up from places they shouldn't. Honestly, I think we just have to deal with it for now. Once Texas comes, there should be enough new industries and new companies to overhaul everything. Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Texas....yeah we should get several new cargoes by then. They simple can't do new trucks, new trailers and cargo all at the same time. Something has to take a backseat. My passion is cargo, new companies and new industries, but even I will compromise for new things that must come with new map dlc's. New trailers in new dlc's brings new cargo most times. If they fix things right as they build new trailers, that is cargo they don't have to adjust for the overhaul later on.

We aren't missing too many trailers though. There is livestock, step deck, curtain sider and storage style. I can see all those coming except storage within the next 2-3 years. Livestock is self exclamatory. Stepdecks and curtain siders are popular for facilities without docks so farms fit that nicely. Especially if we get some type of forklift loading cutscene stuff going on.

[GT182]

That's great news Flight50. I haven't had a chance to see what's going on for the past few days.... been offline.