In this thread I'll occasionally be posting screenshots from the American Truck Simulator. As the name suggests, you're put in a role of a truck driver and must drive cargo between various cities / states. The game is based on the European Truck Simulator - if comparing the maps, the ETS is much, much bigger than ATS, but new stuff (states for ATS or countries for ETS) are still being added. Roads / highways are based on real ones, except that they're significantly scaled down of course, nonetheless it can take a long time to get from point A to point B. I started with ETS first, but I'm so familiar with European highways, so for the time being I enjoy driving across the USA more.

In the beginning you must accept contracts from various different companies, when you earn enough caps septims dollars, you can start your own company, buy your own truck etc. The game is quite realistic, that's why it's been a commercial success all over the world, maneuvering the truck is quite difficult, especially in towns, when streets get narrow and you must reverse (a nightmare for now, but it'll get better), but even apart of driving, you must watch out for regular refuel, getting enough rest, obey traffic rules (or try your luck and not get caught). Various unexpected events can happen on the road, like accidents, traffic jams, flat tires, random police controls, road work, traffic re-routing, more or less anything that can happen in real life.

I forgot the name of the town in Arizona where I started (I think it was Tucson), but I remember that the final destination of my first contract was a town named Show Low. Although I was used to trucking from ETS, this route was more challenging, because it involved a double trailer. I managed to get to Show Low without any % of damage - the more the truck or cargo damaged, the less you get paid.

Behind the wheel of Peterbilt

"Ahoy pal!" - sometimes I flash my headlights when another truck is driving in my direction, as a sort of greeting. Some drivers greet me back.

Turning left - it took a while to turn left obviously. I'm in the truck with the Wallbert logo, the second trailer isn't visible in this pic.

In a traffic jam - by default the traffic is more sparse but then roads feel too empty, so I increased the density in the game's .ini settings.

Nice scenery on the left

I don't recognize the car in front of me

Now both trailers are visible

Ridin' on to Show Low

Arrival at sunset

Lopoved

Now get yourself a convoy good buddy!

So when do we get a thrilling tale of an evil trucker haunting the highways in search of victims?


P.S. The game looks really beautiful!

Goodness Lopov has become a trucker! Man, those graphics are great. Do you have to pass any sort of license to start this game, or do you just drive? I have a real-life acquaintance who drives BIG trucks and special licenses are required.

Also, do you shift gears? From what I understand, those big trucks have a special way to shift... double-clutch I think it's called. And they can have a lot of gears, too... not just 4 or 5.

> That is very true about truckers flashing lights. IN fact, if one truck passes another, the truck being passed will flash lights to let the passing truck know it's safe to get in front of the passee's truck.

> Do you listen to music as you drive? You can play some old country as you drive. Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams, etc. (As Khajiit has shown above).

> Also, do you chew tobacco? Will you be getting a tattoo with your wife's name on it? Or better yet, a tattoo which simply says ~MOTHER~

I'm so glad you're enjoying this trucking simulator! The graphics look great and I can imagine a lot involved to figure out how to manuever those big rigs. Looks like you went right into 'hard' mode by running a double trailer!

Haha! A Lopov shot of your truck!

Lopov you should see if you can make a cargo route to Vegas. Or through it. I myself have never been to Vegas but I went through Reno once, and they had some of that casino glitz going on there.

@TheCheshireKhajiit - there won't be an evil trucker this time. The developers stated that they won't 'develop' this part of the game - hitting pedestrians or buildings - at all, instead they'll focus simply on driving mechanics and add-ons for trucks. Well you can destroy your truck if you hit some heavy building, but it's not like GTA style, where you could go on a rampage. There are really a lot of various addons for trucks, like body paints, cabin accessories, chassis modifications, the list is so long, that not even I know what all it encompasses.

@Renee - the only license required is a valid account on Steam, I guess.

There are four different driving modes - two with mouse & keyboard, one with controller and one with wheel (and pedals, although they're not a must). Changing gears is possible only in the last two modes. I'm satisfied with the M & K approach for now.

You can listen to some real radios that are automatically generated as you drive, or you can insert streams of any world radio stations to an .ini file, and listen to any radio you want.

You can't chew tobacco unfortunately. In fact except choosing a 'profile pic' and seeing the driver when rotating the camera around, there aren't other actions possible, you can't walk out of the truck. If you have a flat tire, there's a combination of buttons you must press to repair it / replace it, or you can call for help. I haven't yet experienced this scenario but I got a ticket for speeding today.

New Las Vegas exists yes, and it's available by default, without any DLCs. It's quite big, but not entire town is covered, you can only drive on predetermined roads. But apparently they made LV bigger with one of the latest updates. States that are currently available to traverse are: Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington. The next big update / DLC will bring Idaho and or Colorado.

In comparison, ETS was released in 2012 and now, 8 years later, almost entire Europe has been covered, but there's still room for more. ATS was released in 2016, so it'll be at least 4 years and more to cover most of the USA, I'm assuming. Oh, BTW, Reno is also featured in ATS, alongside already mentioned Las Vegas, Carson City and Elko.

@Acadian - it actually wasn't my intention to run a double trailer, I was shocked when I saw in the side mirror, that the second trailer began moving as well as I accelerated. In Europe it never happened that one of quick contracts would involve a double trailer, so maybe they changed it for the ATS, or maybe it was just a coincidence. One thing I noticed first is that lanes are wider in ATS than in ETS, just like in real life.

A good look at the Lopoved shot will reveal me (the driver) behind the wheel. To keep things simple, I'll refer to myself as the driver, because I also used my real name in the game.

Oooh, go to Portland Oregon at some point! I lived there for many years. Curious to see if you can see the Steel Bridge and other famous landmarks. Probably not. I don't think they allow BIG trucks into that area of the city.

You should get a wheel + pedals. Your wife would roll her eyes every day! Plus, I think you once said your father used to have a racing game and had a wheel, which your mom made fun of.

Steel Bridge is in the game, from what the Wiki says, but if I read this correctly, it's not driveable, you can only see it. Here's the text from the Wiki:

Portland's many bridges earn Portland the nickname "Bridge town" so SCS had to include several in their re-creation of the city. The Fremont Bridge (drive-able), the Steel Bridge, the Burnside Bridge, the Hawthorne Bridge, the Marquam Bridge (drive-able), and the Tilikum Crossing can be seen in-game.

Yes, my father was playing Nascar, I'm not sure, maybe he still does from time to time. He bought a wheel for it, but no pedals. My mom wasn't too thrilled to see that wheel fixated on the desk.

Khajiit beat me to the Convoy link...

This game looks really good, especially the cars you see on the roads. Do you have to go through things like weigh stations?

Yes, you must. As a matter of fact, I was just fined $260€ for avoiding one. I saw the message on screen too late, because it appeared right above the GPS and I wasn't paying attention to the GPS, because the road ahead was flat straight.

As someone who spent a LOT of time driving on the interstates among the Big Rigs: I can vouch for the headlight flashing. At least in the Midwest, where there's a lot of congestion and construction, the Big Rigs flash their headlights if the truck in front has clearance to make a lane change. I remember asking my Dad about it once (he knew a lot of Big Rig drivers from his work) and he explained to me that it's to let them know they can move into the lane in front of you. Once that driver makes the change, they'll flash their lights back at you as a "Thanks, buddy" signal.

I started doing that while driving my little car on those Interstates - I really paid attention to the Big Rigs and gave them space if they needed to change lanes. Sometimes I knew they would need to before they did! So I would be watching for that turn signal (and hanging back, pissing off the a$$hole drivers behind me who wanted to cut everyone else off) and be ready to flash my brights at them - I also made sure they could see ME in THEIR rearview mirrors! It was not unusual for them to flash their lights "Thanks buddy" at me once they would slide in front of me, always made me feel good.

There was even one or two occasions where that same Big Rig would have the chance to return the favor to me and flash their lights when I needed to make a lane change in front of them. I think both of those times were in that perpetual construction zone on I-90 right around Gary, IN. Always a nightmare to drive in those days . . .

haute, your post reminded me of an event that happened to me a few years ago, while driving from my hometown Maribor to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. I was driving on a left lane and a big rig (double trailer) was driving on my right. I noticed the sign for a roadwork on his lane, and when he noticed it too, he turned on the left (damn what's the word? The blinking light to let others know whether you're going left or right) and I flashed my headlights at him to let him in front of me, because soon two lanes were joined to one. Once the common lane once again separated he moved back to the right lane, and as I overtook him, he flashed his headlights at me. But here is not the end of the story. About half an hour later I stopped at one of the reststops to drink a coffee. As I was returning to my car, some man approached me and it turned out that he was the trucker. By coincidence he stopped at the same reststop and recognized my car so he waited around a bit, hoping that he'd meet me. He said that it rarely happens that drivers let them in front and asked me, if he can pay me a coffee, so I had another coffee together with this trucker from Serbia.

Now here are some more pics:

Night route awaits

"I'm off to Las Cruces."

Let's fill up the tank

Pure Energy

Something's up ahead

This doesn't look good

Sunrise

Now ain't that pic pretty?

Something's up ahead again

Notice the car behind me in the left rear mirror - he let me through, I don't whether this is game mechanics or a coincidence that he stopped, but some drivers won't let you through in case of a road obstacle.

Arrival to Las Cruces

See the traffic light far far ahead? That's where we needed to come to turn right. This isn't the game for impatient people.

Still waiting. I think it altogether lasted about 6 minutes to make that right turn.

Not Ford, but Frog

Let's hope that there aren't any tunnelers in that tunnel

Cyrodiil with trucks

It's me!

Wasteland Wilderness

Arrival to Hobbs

That car is European - Mercedes C

It is cool that they have car accidents closing off lanes, and the cars involved are even crumpled up!

The sunrise pic is really good, I wonder if Decrepit is driving the train in the background?

A Frog! The street lights in that pic are sideways as well. Normally they hang vertically in the US.

Hey its trees!

It's Lopov behind the wheel!

The wasteland does look like the wasteland.

Fill up the tank! That’ll cost ya!

Aww, I love sunrises in the desert and you captured a beautiful one.

Haha, a Frog Ribett-150.

This really is a nice looking game!

Lopov: we simply call those flashing lights blinkers, or turn signals. Turn signals is the more formal word in my parts, though in other parts of America they are probably called by other names.

What kind of trailer is that in the Night picture? What are you supposed to be hauling?

Whoa, it's a service station. Oh my gosh, an actual car wreck! "Charged" looks like Best Buy. It's funny how they keep dancing around all the official brands and makes.

The more I see pictures of this game, the more I get interested. I mean, is there a version where we can simply drive a car around? All these pics are making me miss my traveling days. I'd get an old Nissan pickup or Corolla like I used to own. Be a traveling hippy again.


Me too! Back when I used to drive all over the country I got into the habit of flashing the lights on my little car (or pickup) to let them know it was safe to cut in front of me. Sometimes they'd flash back.

@SubRosa - I noticed that in some towns traffic lights are hanging vertically.

I also noticed Ford S-Max on roads, which was immediately unusual to me, because AFAIK this model is produced in Europe only. I checked it up on the Wiki and noticed that the car indeed isn't sold in the USA. So I'm assuming that it's an oversight, because the producers are from the Czech Republic.

@Acadian - the FROG inscription apparently caused quite a ruckus in the forums when seen for the first time, because fans wanted to see Ford written there. Now instructions can be found online how to edit the inscription or download a mod that changes it.

@Renee - once you buy your own truck, you can drive it without any trailer as well anywhere you want, but you must have some cash to pay for the gas of course. You can't drive a common car around. If you're in a mood just for driving, I recommend GTA San Andreas, it features cities, deserts and forestland. If you're not feeling like doing any missions, you can enter cheat codes to enable all possible areas without doing any missions. I often did this if I felt like just driving around. Compared to GTA IV and V, San Andreas' drivers actually have much better AI.

I don't remember anymore what was I hauling in that night route but I remember that it was something heavy.

We call those lights "blinker" as well, but it's of course not our original word but borrowed from German, or even English, as I just learned.

Thanks, but nah, I don't want to go back to GTA. Vice City was fun when I tried it (pre-Oblivion) back in 2006. I'd feel silly playing a gangsta at age 50.

The appeal of these truck simulator games is seeing all that scenery. It reminds me of driving around in my 20s and 30s all over the country. I did do some searches and you are right. There are several truck simulator games, but nothing which lets someone just travel around in a car. I think it'd be sort of fun playing as a courier in an ordinary car, which is a job I had at age 18. I drove a Nissan truck. That's when I learned to drive a manual, because of that job.

You don't need to play as a gangsta if you'll be just driving around. But you need cheat codes to enable the whole map, because game-wise it gets opened as you progress through quests. But honestly I don't expect that you'll be returning to the GTA.

Things that bother me or I find them difficult in the game so far:

-cornering! I still haven't gotten used to it, especially if hauling some extremely long trailer. Maybe it can't be properly achieved with mouse & keyboard, but I often have problems with the tail of the trailer brushing up against sth. like traffic lights or light poles. If I try to take a wider arc when turning, it works, but only as long as there isn't incoming traffic.

-I absolutely have no idea how to reverse properly, that is so, that the trailer moves in the desired direction. There are a lot of instructions written online how to do it properly, looks like I'll need to give them a thorough read.

-the game is quite strict when it comes to punishing you if you drive through a red traffic light. Even if you drive through a crossroad while there's still green light, but then for some reason takes a long time (like cornering) to make it through, so red light comes on in between, you can get a fine, if spotted by a police patrol, which are especially in towns present very often.

Here are some more pics from my last routes before buying my very own first truck.

Oversize Load

Overtaking

Sunglasses required

Behind the wheel of Mack. This trailer, for instance, was extremely difficult to manoeuvre in corners.

Waiting...

Still waiting...

It'll take a while to turn right

The weigh station

Ready to be weighed

After earning around $50,000 I took a loan at one of the banks and bought my first Truck - Volvo, painted in orange.

Once you own your own truck, you must drive to the desired contract location yourself and attach the prepared cargo trailer. All costs, including fuel, repairs etc. must from now on be covered by you.

First route awaits

Parallel

Sunglasses required again

Speeding, because I slept too long, so I was late for the delivery. In the end I was fined $3000 for arriving late, so it was automatically subtracted from the supposed pay.

Nah, can't do it. It's kind of funny that I once did play GTA, but that was mostly because I was so fascinated with being in an open world. After discovering Oblivion of course... I never looked back. I did look to see if Truck Simulator is on consoles. I'd be tempted to buy a PS4 or Xbox 1 if so, but it's a computer-only game.

Lopov buys a European truck. That's amazing how much money gets exchanged in this game. Taxes, fees, tolls, and you can even get your pay docked if you show up late.

As far as "things that you can't do properly".... that is why I was asking if you have to obtain a license before being allowed to drive. Because I know in real life this is a top requirement!

And yes, it's a good idea for intersections to be clear before you begin to travel through them. So even if the light is green, you have to be careful. Although in Maryland, the rule is that if somebody gets stuck in an intersection and the light turns red, everyone else must wait for the stuck car or truck to make it through before anyone else can proceed.

That's a weird haul you've got there in the Weigh Station picture. I've never seen anything like that!

These shots are great fun to look at as you highlight the beauty and challenges of 'On the Road'.

Do you plan later on to get a truck with a sleeper cab?

That last trailer is really weird looking. It seems like it is about to scrape against the ground at any moment.

@Renee - since yesterday I'm getting better at cornering. I did some learning online and read that it depends on pressing W (forward) and/or A/D (cornering). Although commands are always the same, it depends on what kind of trailer are you transporting, for longer ones you must slowly press A/D with pauses when cornering, while with lighter, shorter trailers it is advisable to hold the A/D command. I tried it yesterday and noticed a difference.

@Acadian - you noticed good that my Volvo doesn't have a sleeper cabin. Yes, I definitely plan to buy such a truck later, there are lots of different trucks for sale, but they get available as you progress through levels. For instance, my current Volvo can't haul any heavy cargo, it's meant for light-to-medium cargo.

@SubRosa - I know, I thought that at first something went wrong when attaching the cargo.

Yesterday I learned a lesson not to save the game while on an active contract, because if the game auto-updates, the contract is cancelled, and you're put back to you original garage. I spent quite some time and fuel to reach the desired contract location, but it was in vain in the end. Nonetheless, I'm back on the road again, and now I'm heading to Carlsbad in California. The name of the town sounds almost identically as Karlsbad (today Karlovy Vary) from the Czech Republic.

In other news, I have already been involved in a few accidents and although I wasn't always the guilty one, the game regarded me as guilty. Happens in real life too. Once while on a highway, the ambulance car suddenly changed the lane and hit in my Volvo, but I was fined $700. I also got a few speeding tickets, especially in towns, but I haven't yet been "caught" on highways.

Then there is Carlsberg, which you should not be drinking if you are driving through Carlsbad.

They started off with good intentions, calling places "New Xxxxx" like New Amsterdam (now called New York) but soon they were just using the original names. The Yanks don't always pronounce them the same, either, so Worcester is not pronounced Woostah in the US of A.

And strangely, the really good names, like Ashby-de-la-Zouch or Hetton-le-Hole or Nether Wallop don't seem to have crossed the pond.

Welcome to New Mexico!

Overturned, but luckily not me

Driving for Bushnell

The last one is always guilty, right?

SACKALL

Overtaking me

New day, new contract

X X X X X - obviously you can't drive to streets / roads where these signs stand

Road work

Peeking at bus passengers

Empty & free

If you've got to travel, by the Nine Divines, don't stop on the tracks! We had sightings, you see...the trains...

Driving on

Seeing see for the first time

Because I rotated the camera around to take the last pic, I immediately after taking the screenshot, crashed into the fence on the right, which almost overturned my truck and I blocked the entire road, so some vehicles behind me and on the other lanes crashed into me. I was fined $2000 altogether and my truck was quite damaged, so I needed to take it to the nearby repair shop. Nonetheless, it was worth taking a screenie.

Nooo Lopov! You can't keep getting into accidents!

That's a good question actually: is there any sort of reload feature if things go wrong? I am guessing probably not. Like, maybe when you're picking up contracts you can try to reload if you don't like what you've been given, or is that wrong?

Ambulances, police, and fire trucks.... we always pull over to the side (if there is a side) and brake to a full stop. That's on a normal, lower-speed road. If we're on a highway, the law probably differs from state to state. In Maryland I think the rule is we don't always have to pull all the over to the side, but obviously we need to get out of their way.

However, what you're describing is the ambulance turned into your truck, which sounds more like a glitch to me.

That seaside picture is lovely. It must almost be as shocking as getting out of a Bethesda tutorial dungeon, after miles and miles of desert.

Isn't that SACKALL lawyer billboard quite ugly? See, you don't have huge, ugly ads like this in Europe, right? All that beautiful landscape... ruined by silly advertisements. New Vegas also has these billboards everywhere, but at least those are humorous (given the circumstances).

Bushnell makes me think of binoculars, not farms.

Oh noes, mad European trucker on the loose!

Roadwork. The orange barrel is the state animal of Michigan

*waves at Decrepit as he goes by in the train*

Got into an accident while taking a selfie. That sounds so like a Millenial!

Some beautiful scenery shots from the open road in New Mexico.

Overturned. As they say, keep the rubber side down and the shiny side up.

Peeking at bus passengers. Because of their vantage, truckers often see some very amusing things happening in the front seats of cars next to them.

Neat shot of the crossing train.

@Renee - you can reload anytime you want. But so far I haven't done it yet, I prefer that things happen as they do, even if it involves getting speeding tickets, causing accidents or being late by deliveries. It's more spontaneous this way.

The ambulance didn't have flashing lights on, it merely changed the lane, because it wanted to overtake the car in front, I assume. But I was guilty. Must be because of my name, Lopov = scoundrel.

Oh, we have ads by highways too, sometimes they're "wisely" put right in front of some beautiful trees. Things significantly worsen up before every elections.

@SubRosa - it's mad Lopov behind the wheel!

I prefer delivering heavy cargo, because then my truck can't reach top speed in any case, so I have no choice but to go slow. If I transport some light cargo, my "inner GTA beast" takes over on occasion, so I drive close to or even over the speed limit.

State animal of Michigan!?

@Acadian - yeah, it's quite a view from so high, too bad that nothing 'happens' in ATS.

Apparently you can also witness big accidents taking place, so far I've only seen small ones take place, but apparently trucks can overturn in front of your eyes too.

New DLC Idaho was released yesterday and shrewd developers put it immediately in some bundle to get a discount if bought quick enough. So I bought it and got Utah as well. There's never enough of states.

Lol you nailed it!

Oops, I got confused. the orange barrel is the official state flower of Michigan

New day, new haul

I wouldn't want to be in that queue

Empty road

Picturesque clouds

Oversize sunset

Stuck on highway - my destination was the gas station & rest area on the right. But something happened up front and we were standing still for a few minutes.

Chemron

The next morning

Lopoved from side

Arriving to the destination

GTA perspective

I'm really enjoying your screenshots. My favorite place to drive in the US is in the southwest - a land of wide open spaces and beautiful views.

Great sunset, hope you did not get blinded by it and crash!

Chemron is a disturbing name. That is where the AI that takes over the world comes from.

That is a really cool lakeside/seaside destination.

I was expecting mass murder at the name "GTA perspective"

@Acadian - maybe you'll recognize some roads from the SW in the future.

@SubRosa - I'm more cautious now when taking screenies.

Chemron reminds me of REPCONN in fact.

Skateboarders behind me

Bakersfield

Time to rest

Paying the fee for passing over the bridge

On the bridge

Still on the bridge

Wrangler on my left

Up the hill - slow and steady

Eureka!

For anyone that'd like to watch a part of a route Page-Bakersfield, I made a semi-long LP, it's around 20 minutes. It shows my drive from Page to one of the rest stations. To make things more appealing, I was often driving in the so called "3rd person", that is outside of the cabin. For a normal gameplay I don't switch views, I drive only from inside the cabin.

There's also part 2, where I drive from Page to Primm, going through Las Vegas, which I'll upload in the future.

EDIT: For some reason the video automatically puts me to 2:50, not sure why. In case the same happens to you, just move the slider back to the start.

More great screenshots and still loving the desert/west coast scenery. The LP vid offered a nice additional perspective on the game. And you even had good music playing! I can certainly appreciate the fun, even addictive pleasure this game looks like it can provide.

I'm with the Sk8ter Boi!

I guess no is going to miss that they drove into Bakersfield.

It is cool that you stop in motels and have to go through toll booths.

The bridge is cool.

Eureka! Are the Carson Mansion and the Pink Lady in the game?

That's so crazy! They have skateboarders doing their tricks. What an unimportant detail. Maybe I'd expect to see this in GTA or Sims. Not a truck simulation game.

Lopov gets a motel room. That is one thing I wondered, if you can rent a room for the night or day.

I had a girlfriend from Bakersfield when I lived in California. This was back in the early 1990s. Never been there myself. Believe it or not I was not a gamer back then. Not until the year 2000, matter of fact.

I remember stopping in Eureka back when I moved to Oregon. I had Chinese food for dinner! I think I picked up a hitchhiker somewhere north of Eureka.

That's a question: are there hitchhikers? Can you pick somebody up. Is this common in Europe? I know it was common during the 1970s when we visited / lived there. Hitchhiking has become rare in America, at least on the east coast. When I was a teen it was more common. Like a dummy, I used to occasionally pick people up. Never had any problems, but it can be dangerous, of course, picking up total strangers.

Cool, I'm glad you posted that video, and since I commented heavily during our messages, I can't wait to see the next one.

@Acadian - thanks! Today I uploaded the video of the drive through your hometown, maybe you'll recognize some roads or landmarks. Maybe you'll even recognize yourself in some car.

@SubRosa - the only tool booth encountered so far was the one before that bridge. In European TS they're much more common.

I assume that landmarks which you mention, aren't present in the game, because the Wiki states only:
-Mad River
-church
-Humboldt Bay

@Renee - it's nice to see a town named Eureka, considering its original meaning.

There aren't hitchhikers in the game unfortunately. That'd be an interesting addition for sure.

From what I've traveled across Europe, hitchhiking isn't extremely rare but it's not too common either. It used to be more common years ago for sure.

Today's video takes off where the previous one ended, and shows the drive from the weigh station to Primm, going through Las Vegas. I'd say that not much interesting happens in the first half of the video, except me getting shortly stuck around 6:40, because I didn't take an arc wide enough when cornering, but from around 10:00 onwards I was driving through Las Vegas. Around 13:00 a so called unexpected event takes place on the road. The video ends in Primm, which is also featured in Fallout NV, but in ATS it's in a much better state.

Through Las Vegas

Toll roads are very common in the northeast portion of the US. Fairly rare elsewhere.

I couldn't get the vid to come up. You Tube comes up fine but the vid says 'Video Unavailable'. To troubleshoot, I tried the vid from your previous (Bakersfield) vid and that still works just fine.

Ohio is notorious for their toll roads, such as the Ohio Turnpike. So far as I know, we do not have any here in Michigan however.

I also cannot get the video to work.

Thanks for the warning, it shows up fine for me, so it must be some regional-related issue. I'll try and fix it.

It's because of some song that's played on radio, there are copyright issues.

A friend of mine recommended me to port it over to HookTube.

Let me know if this link works.

No joy there either. I see an errror message that says = YouTube API said: The request cannot be completed because you have exceeded your quota.

I get your vid (ATS in Las Vegas) with a prompt to hit play. When I hit play, it goes to 'Video unavailable'.

The video is banned in US and Australia, that's why you can't see it, my Friend from France can see it fine, for instance. I don't have a solution ATM and I unfortunately already deleted the original video from my desktop. Now if I download it back from Youtube, it's in a miserable quality and I'd need to upload it to some other provider. Maybe I'll come up with some fix in the coming days, if there is any.

EDIT:
I found an option on Youtube to make the video mute, maybe that will fix it, the process will take a while. Then I'll write here the playlist to listen to while watching.

I think it'll work now. I don't see any warnings about restrictions anymore.

The video gets completely silent two times, two songs were problematic, because of copyrights in the USA and Australia. The first song wasn't that good, but the second one, close to the end, was High Tide from Blondie, which is a great song for cruising.

Works well now and a fun vid! I love the open road stuff prior to and after Las Vegas and it is interesting to run through the middle of the city on I-15. Yup, those high rise casinos on the left (I noted Bellagio and Luxor) are right along the Strip. Oops - amazing how much room you have to allow for turns to keep everything on the road.

I'm glad you recognized some landmarks. In big cities most roads aren't driveable, you can drive through but you can't get near most of prominent landmarks - in a way it makes sense, I assume that big rigs aren't allowed to drive deep inside city centers in the USA, just like it's in most parts of Europe, unless it's some very important delivery.

Turning with long trailers can be difficult, so I'm always happy when I see that there's no incoming traffic.

As a matter of fact I decreased the frequency of traffic because my game started to suffer from the glitch, where driving from a side road to a main road would cause endless traffic to be generated and incoming down the main road. Apparently it's a known glitch that occurs over time, so I made traffic now slightly more sparse.

Everyone is passing you, speed up!

Bon Jovi! I was not expecting to hear that. I always imagine that the only music a truck will play is Jerry Reed

When I saw the ferris wheel and lit up tower I thought it was Nuka World... Looks like you managed to avoid Driver Nephi and Motor-Runner in your drive around New Vegas though...