I did this to make sure I had a load order that was both good as loading faster, it started to get rather slow with a 10 minute load time.
Also I found a few new mods to be added to the load list, here is one of the mods showing a 4 trailer road train!
Scania S - Simon Loos Road Train
Cargo: Ice Cream (36,474 kg)
From: Zwolle, Netherlands
Too: Lile, France
Time to hit the road, departure from Zwolle!
Arrival in Lile, France! This combination is so far pretty easy to drive around with, I however do need to change the truck itself to have a extra axle.
It tends to slow down up hill rather quickly, so need to find a solution for that.
Conclusion of this test (4 trailer road train and above):
- Yes, you can drive with it on the roads provided by the vanilla game as well as ProMods
- Yes, it drives pretty easy, as long as you take wide turns and watch your mirrors
- You will have issues with loading, unloading, player garages and likely any other cramped space that wasn't made to handle these beasts
- The AI is stupid, just like real drivers they seem to be oblivious to long vehicles and not smart enough to give you time or space to go around a corner or pull in/out from any location
- Trailer limit seems to be 4, however this based up on getting it out of your garage. Any company based lot is better off with the doubles at best
- Trucks seem to have an issue with going up hill loosing speed way to fast. I tested it with a 100hp engine and a gearbox mod and even that went down in speed rather quickly
- Teleporting to one of your garages (Large garages only!) may proof difficult as it will turn out to be a complete mess. The game tries to park you in front of the garage door which leaves little space for your trailer. Even detaching your trailer in this case doesn't solve the problem. It will still end up on top of your truck, you can just drive into your garage but from there it's rather difficult to attach your trailer and get off your property. Even if you manage to re-attach it, you still have the ProMods junk on your property to deal with (barrels and pallets just in front of your fuel pump). It will proof difficult to get past that one if you even have the patience to do it at all. Can't really blame SCS or ProMods of course, the vanilla game doesn't have road trains other then the doubles and HTC's
- Loading your trailers takes the same amount of time, but as a twist your truck faces the loading dock instead. Meaning you won't face the normal way which makes it harder to get out of there
- Only companies that can handle this 4 trailer road train are the big company lots that will not force you to go around the building or trough narrow passages, you need a lot of space to maneuver
Next test will be for a 3 trailer variant, I'll be posting it in a separate post of course.