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SAFETY GUIDE
PROVIDE OTHER TRUCKERS WITH SAFE OVERTAKING SPOTS
(Heavy Haul)
 

Introduction

We all had that one moment “My truck will be fine! It's strong enough” or, then turns out your truck struggles with the standalone in-game speed. After a little while, you find out it's getting busy and you don't want to cause a queue... So what do you do?

I am going to provide you with easy steps that not only will help you let people past, but it will also help other truckers avoiding possible crashes! 

The best thing to do is to let them overtake! However, it depends what road and location you're at to know how safe it is to overtake.

Pre-Checks
1) Look at the Road Ahead as far as you can, seek any possible junctions that may interfere on both sides.
2) Check the Truck (or amount of Trucks) behind you and see how close they're to you
3) Maintain your speed to a reasonable speed for Overtaking

After you've done all that, and made sure it's all safe. Time to communicate with the Truckers behind you! Look at the following to know what to do on a certain road type.

Single Lane - No Barriers:
1) Indicate to the Hard shoulder and slowly Decrease your speed.
2) Place your truck 50/50 over the Hard shoulder Line.
3) Halt your truck and Turn On your Hazzard Lights on - Hand Break on if required. 

Single Lane - Barriers:
1) Indicate to the Hard shoulder and slowly Decrease your speed.
2) Drive your Truck close as possible to the Barrier/Hard Shoulder with Hazzard Lights on Immediately
3) Halt your truck with Hand Break on.

Dual/Tri Lane - No Hard Shoulder:
1) Maintain a Fixed Speed and Flash your Hazards for 2 Cycles
2) Quickly Indicate to the open lane for 2 Cycles
3) Allow the Truck to pass, if they don't begin to Overtake Repeat Step 1 & 2 Again. 

Dual/Tri Lane - Hard Shoulder:
1) Indicate to the Hard shoulder and slowly Decrease your speed.
2) Place your truck into the Hard shoulder Line.
3) Halt your truck and Turn On your Hazzard Lights on - Hand Break on if required. 

And there you have it! You've done yourself and the surrounding Truckers a favor! 

PLEASE NOTE: 
This is by no means a rule or anything of the sort! Only a guide to provide a little awareness and safety to others around you! It's to help with reducing crashes on TruckersMP / help people be more careful with Heavy Haulage. 

Learning Material by
The ALPHA Logistics Team