Drakomis

I have had an absolutely wonderful time in Viva Trucking so far. Tonight was weird with lag spikes, mysterious events, and finally meeting up with someone on the discord by the name of Bullhauler. I grabbed my escort to provide escort for a fellow Viva driver. We had so much fun until the lag spikes on the US ATS server decided to happen.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/912416928324371348/7BA7C18BF4E87AB0FC0F6F0994EA64EDF08D7843/

Be safe on the road tomorrow, Bullhauler and look forward to being your pilot again!

I decided to disband U.S. Trucking and formally have gone into Viva Trucking. I have to say after a short misunderstanding, the people there were very pleasing to talk to. I look forward to hauling for them.

Morning all! Keep the shiny side up!

Everyones sharing their own, figure I'll share mine. Here's what I drive in Singleplayer in both ETS2 and ATS, a Freightliner FLB. Picture shows ATS screenshot. Chicken-lights all around, hahaha.

You know, I find this real odd. I apologized for an event I did some time ago and two people from the community advised me to get recording software to report incidents. I even reported incidents prior to this that were ignored, I think, but overall I got the impression that it was a requirement to have some form of recording software to be able to justify that you're reporting someone. Seeing this video and the situation involved, I'm really starting to question that.

You mind elaborating on what recording software you use? Any ones I use just hog my system. What is your overall opinion of the situation regarding your original post?

Thanks!

Did a little test with the Virtual Trucking Management thingie and found out it's surprisingly....well....easy. I can edit the log before it posts, it'll come up as pending automatically and I can include my own data that I like to include. I left a message on their site to find out if they're still active, cause if I'm actually gonna do this I'd like a reliable and stable platform.

Otherwise, well...I'll do what the other gentlemen suggested and start conversing with the CEO's of other VTC's. Find out what they use, see if I can find some advice.

Trying to sort through all avenues right now.

Had an interesting....um....complication trying out some logging stuff. Most of these virtual loggers are, like, requiring a download. I'm very careful how that does. My main problem with the one I wanted to move to is that it does not log multiplayer, no matter how short or long a route is - at least for myself. Single player is fine and, while that is a wonderful aspect, it's not what I was aiming for.

I tried another, some site called TrucksBook. I was really interested in it. I decided I wanted t download it. Now, my instance could of been a fluke, but it showed up as a malicious program. I know from experience trustworthy programs can be seen as that, but my issue was I never knew or seen this site. I decided it was best to stray away from it. 

So....I'm stuck between a decision. Do I want to utilize Virtual Trucking Manager or the other one I trialed out that didn't register multiplayer, but automatically logs anyway.

I just want a site I can use that'll be around the next few years or so, something that'll be inclusive and existent, but not so complicated.

Always the possibility to join another VTC. I've been considering Viva but, dangit, I really want this to work out.

I actually am coming to like that VTL thingie. It's real simple and easy to use. I think I'll switch all the VTC stuff over to there instead of the Virtual Truck Manager site. I'll be honest, I chose that site because it gave me to opportunity to be as detailed as I wanted in my reports. I still have the formatting for reports in a notepad, so if I honestly wanted to do that I could do it myself, but this new site I found (which is also constantly updated and appears to be updated to 2018) is uh.....well, it catalogues automatically offline and online and seems to have a lot of inclusion in it. I think I'll stick to it.

Hmm, I think I may have to reconsider who I log with. Right now the company logs with a site called Virtual Trucking Manager, but it appears it was last updated in 2016. I've been looking around and I've realized that there are, in fact, more options. One of them is a premium software and another....well another appears to be made by actual truckers like myself. I'm keen to change things over to there. May be some company restructuring, I think. It's good then it's only me and my virtual solo-op self.

Well...maybe one load...

No loads today, too tired. Probably later on this evening sometime. Almost afraid to reenter ETS2 with the way griefers were so apparent, but that is the sad cost of business.

Still in the red from yesterdays two events. Those fellows didn't give a lick about profits, just runners. Once I do a few more runs, I'll have my personal finances above the red. Presently in -533 EUROS for the European Division. The company there is doing fine at a steady balance of 98179 EUROS. Enough for one truck and emergency, it's all we have anyway.

I started up the American Division (funny, right? US Trucking starts up publically in Europe and not US. Hah!). I'll need to run a few loads there eventually, soonish. Right now tonight I had run an offline load to get things better sorted in US Trucking, Europe. Get the personal finances above a certain point and it'll be fine there, then I can switch and focus on the American one.