Forerunner

About the change to "local-only" mods:

Not all local-only mods are banned. To those of you who save edit yourselves, use of /home accessories is still permitted when used as a "vehicle_addon_accessory"; for non-save editors this means that the local only mods can only be cosmetic and cannot affect physics or sounds. So your custom lightbars, window logos, hologram GPS and similar are all still compatible, assuming they were made correctly - and even if they weren't they could be adjusted with relative ease.

You can still make highly customized and good looking trucks, they won't be exactly the same as they may have been before the change though.

Some trucks of mine to prove my point:

In this example, the bullbar and fuel tanks are all a custom f_grill addon accessory - so are both still permitted for use.

In this example, all of the custom work is applied as a sun visor addon accessory - so is still permitted for use

Easily the most "extreme" example that springs to mind is this: without the local parts this is a Volvo cab on an old Mercedes Actros chassis (see spoiler below). The local parts used here attach to the sun visor and bullbar slots (depending on if its cab or chassis mounted) - the cab mounted model includes the stretched cab, beacon bar and front corner deflectors; the chassis mounted model includes the fuel tanks, exhausts (see spoiler below) and the Volvo chassis front, which hides the original Mercedes front. All together, this truck and the parts talked about create a convincing long frame 6x4 Volvo while still being permitted as all the custom work is of the addon accessory type.

Other views:

As proven here, good looking custom trucks can still be made and used in TruckersMP within the rules of the new auto-kick.

Modding existed before I unveiled the use of /home - It existed before all /home parts were allowed - and it will continue to exist.