Learn how to start your trucking career in American Truck Simulator by mastering quick jobs. Earn your first $100,000 and unlock essential skills to grow your logistics company.
Walkthrough
- 1Create your profile: choose your avatar, name, preferred truck, and company logo.
- 2Select your difficulty level (higher means more realism).
- 3Complete quick jobs using the game-provided trucks.
- 4Earn at least $100,000.
- 5Purchase your first truck.
- 6As you complete jobs and level up, unlock skills to upgrade fuel efficiency, long-distance cargo hauling, and hazardous/fragile deliveries.
- 7Once you have enough, buy a new garage or upgrade your existing one to store more trucks.
- 8Hire AI drivers from a recruitment agency.
- 9Provide hired drivers with trucks from a truck dealership to earn more cash.
Tips
- At destination depots, you can choose to park in a "desired spot" for more experience points (harder) or a "safe spot" for fewer experience points (easier).
- You can skip parking entirely, but you will forfeit all parking experience points.
- The map scale was changed from 1:35 to 1:20 in update 1.5, making the game world approximately 1.75x larger.
The ability to purchase your first truck and begin building your own trucking empire.
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