Driver - lessee | Career American Truck Simulator Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
Other chapters as well as subchapters describe thoroughly such elements of the gameplay as job market, taking a loan, purchasing a truck, etc. This chapter presents the very beginning of the game and a scheme of your company's development.
When you start the game, you are assigned to a quick order and you hit the road driving someone else's truck. Use Route Advisor displayed in the lower right corner or GPS installed in the vehicle to get to the destination place. Watch out for road signs, lights, speed limits and remember that it is not that easy to turn with a trailer.
When you get to your destination place, you will have three options to leave the trailer. As you can see on the picture above, there is an easy level that allows giving the cargo automatically and not receiving valuable experience points for that. Medium level allows to easily drive to the unloading point and receive medium number of experience points. In hard level you must park by driving backwards - it is very hard for beginner players. After selecting this option you will receive large number of experience points. If this proves to be too difficult, you can always use automatic parking (and lose the chance for obtaining additional experience points).
The number of experience points received depends on object in which you unload the cargo. [More about that topic can be found in the "trailer parking" chapter].
You do not own a truck. You only have an empty garage located in the city you have selected. To make money, you need more orders, therefore open the job market menu where you can find quick orders.
It is worth picking up those profitable i.e. which offer the best price for each kilometer. These types of orders, apart from obvious disadvantage being low profit, have some good sides: you do not have to worry about the truck - if you need fuel its cost is covered by the ordering party and you are automatically moved to a start location (you do not waste time getting there). [More about quick orders can be found in "Job market" chapter.]