Crazy Quarry Haul! (American Truck Simulator) 

Alto means stop or high/tall. Pesado means heavy. Camino Sinuoso means curvy road. And mexican is not a language. They speak Spanish. Other than that, good video!

That ramp after the steep drop said “rampa de frenado” which roughly translates to “ramp to break” so basically it’s there for vehicles to break if they’re going too fast

When the game stopped I think my RU-vid crashed but when he said hello! It was hilarious

freaky how true to life the scenery is. I'm from West US and I knew the attention to detail was near perfect when that officer cut you off in the town.

that ramp at 24:40 is a runaway truck ramp for when a truck loses brakes going downhill. happens when a trucker doesn't manage the speed of their truck coming down correctly and they can't slow it down enough and use the brakes too heavily, you get brake fade and the brakes stop working or they can catch on fire( ive seen it)

I don't thing you get too many Jeff's in Mexico. It's Jose there. Unless they're fire fighters, in which case you get Jose and Hose B...

TONKA toys! Man, I'm old. I used to have a Tonka metal forklift and my friend had the dumper truck. I rode it down hills and steep paths all the time. One time I was going down a steep path and there was a low wall cordoning off a grassy area at the bottom. Couldn't stop and I went into that wall at almost full speed. I went over the wall, rolled and ended up splitting my head open on the wall at the other end of the grassy area. My Tonka forklift? Slightly bent the hard plastic forks and not one bit of damage to the body. I loved that thing.

Hey Squirrel, at 24:40, that is a truck runaway ramp and the red line helps you know that there is an upcoming truck ramp.

«prohibido transporte pesado» means trucks can't drive there, translated does not make as much sense «heavy transport forbiden» BUT taking context into account it would be «heavy haul/loads not allowed» and the fact that it does not state a max tonnage means even an empty truck is not allowed to drive in that road, much less a truck pulling 2 trailers

I've never seen this game, it looks fun. I used to haul dairy in 48 foot smooth bore tankers. Some of my heavier loads were close to 90,000 pounds. Smooth bore trailers have no baffles due to sanitary issues and can be very dangerous to drive because the milk can flow freely back and forth and side to side which can easily flip a truck. Thanks for posting.

That's a huuuge quarry! Really enjoyed this video, very relaxing. Have a good one, Paul :)

The ramp is a runaway truck ramp. They are designed to help trucks stop if their brakes fail while going down a steep hill and are pretty common in mountainous areas of North America. They're usually covered about a foot deep with sand or fine gravel so the truck sinks into it helping them stop. Of course once you stop you're never moving again without heavy duty towing equipment or a crane so its a much better idea to just take care of your brakes.

That quarry gives me anxiety, having tumbled to my doom in Snowrunner's tiny quarries many times.

6:00 thought it was my phone Then squirrel says hello 😂

That crane places all those boulders in the middle of the road that you encountered on your way up!

I haven't started using ATS mod maps yet, but this is the (only) one that looks well worth using. The other big ones are huge spaces with nothing in them, which I don't understand the appeal of.

looking down on the quarry the perspective of height is crazy great video paul

Imagine meeting a fellow trucker on his way down the quarry and one of you has to reverse 😂

I notice that hauling a fairly heavy load you were going from 4th to 5H, if you spit 4th into 4H then proceed to 5H you will only lose about 200 RPM between splits, going from 4th to 5H is at least 800 - 100 RPM difference that takes a long time to recoup. I have hauled 75,000 lbs this way and splitting the higher gears will allow faster acceleration and will aid in getting up to speed.I use the 600hp Cummings with the Fuller 18 split with retarder as well and love the way she splits the higher gears, It would be nice to be able in the future to choose rear diff ratios as well.

I bought my son one of those Tonka trucks. It's a mix of metal and plastic, but he would often ride in the bin. Fortunately, they are still pretty well made.

Hey Paul, Googled this. Bingham Canyon Mine,opened in 1906 and located near Salt Lake City, is the world's deepest man-made open pit excavation. The mine is 2.75 miles (4,5km) wide and 0.75 mile (1,2km) deep.

Metal Tonka toys...those were the days.

17:45 - Good job they put that fence up, someone could go over the edge there...

Ah, the good old Tonka toys: unbreakable!

"Alto means stop" he says while putting the pedal to the metal :P

The mirror is so bright, but the rear was so dark...nicely done!

Really great to some technical challenges coming into this series! I need to look into this mod.

For the firt time in forever 24:52 omg squirrel used his engine brakes can you believe it.

"Why did you have to slow down for no reason" Hahahahahahahahahahaha Welcome to the Americas!!

That ski jump is totally an escape lane / runaway arrestor bed... steep uphill plus fifty metres or so of soft, deep sand means your "no brakes!" truck is brought down from 80mph to a standstill in (potentially literally) neck-snapping fashion (...maybe after taking out a few unfortunate cars enroute). Make sure you've got your seatbelt pulled tight, and hold on, pardner... and don't assume you'll be able to reverse right out of there. I'm a little surprised, really, I'd have thought someone into their trucks, even in the UK, should recognise one of those? There's a few of them at the side of trunk A-roads following prolonged gradients around the country. The Heads of the Valleys roads through south Wales is particularly rich in them. Anyway, I'd say your comment about the satnav speed limit display being iffy is definitely correct. It already seemed a bit off when coming out of the quarry (all the limit signs there said 30km/h, or ~18mph; the readout showed 31mph, ie 50km/h), and after you mentioned it I kept half an eye on that vs the posted signs, and they rarely matched up. Basically the only time it was correct was on the sections of motorway under a 110km/h limit (= 68mph), and I bet the actual blanket limit for trucks in Mexico is lower than that. The rest of the time it was more likely to be wrong than right, and it's not just a case of it showing (as per the usual Eurotruck readout) the actual truck limit instead of the posted car limit, because it regularly showed a limit higher than what was on the signs, as well as below. EG the 56mph (90km/h) limit through the town, the signs actually showed 40km/h (25mph)... so on and so forth. Luckily the police, and the game's auto-nick system, clearly didn't care about whether you obeyed them, else you'd have been looking at some massive fines / penalty points in certain locations where you were more than doubling the posted limit... (some of Mexico's roads are quite notorious for having ludicrously low, artificial limits in some places, which are essentially traps deliberately set up to raise revenue from people who feel unsafe slowing down that much in case they're rear-ended... and I think we saw some of that, e.g. some sections of otherwise perfectly good open road subject to a 30km/h limit just because there was a sight bend... when most other places you'd have the blanket limit, of somewhere between 60 to 80km/h even for trucks, applying throughout that section and the straights leading up to it...)

I used to pull doubles on worse and darker roads than that. Make it much darker, Narrower and add in enough potholes it looks a moonscape and shake your teeth loose, then you got some realism. Great vid, I think I am going to go try this game out.

"In the Mexican map there's a lot of speed bumps." I've been to Mexico, there's a lot of speed bumps

That truck looks so nice

Great video Squirrel. That quarry was something else. As scary as it was, it was also some beautiful views looking over the side down into the quarry. Really enjoyed this haul.

Love that it is so wide that in the rear view mirrors all you see is the sky box.

As someone whose childhood involved playing with broken Tonka toys, I disagree with your statement at 4:46. They were good toys though.

"Pesado" means heavy ;), "camino sinuoso" means winding route :)

thanks for the video. It reminds me how I went up there with a double trailer. I celebrated it similarly. 18-speed gearshift with shifter and mega-shifter on a Kenny W900 in the dark and rain. :-)

Wow that quarry is amazing

I think in Mexico they call "Mexican food" just "food".

my god thats HUGE

That ramp is for trucks to slow down if their brakes fail. We have such ramps here in Europe as well. Not many but they are usually at the bottom of a big hill, mostly ones that don't have any turns and are more or less straight down.

Really love the recent output of vids Squirrel! Appreciate it and keep up the great work :)

Shoutout to the tonka trucks haha. Modern kids dont have a clue

Alto means “high” in Spanish, Mexican is not a language. Anyway good vid as always

Outstanding trucking. Beautiful scenery, wild quarry experience. Bravo.

That Ramp was a ramp but not a highway ramp. It is a run-off ramp for trucks that loose their breaking. I used to see a lot of them pre 1980's on hilly highways. Usually are made of gravel to help slow the vehicle down.

This reminds me of dangerous drives on scania truck simulator

When I was younger, for one of my birthdays, I received these two TONKA toys. One was a dump truck, the other a weird flatbed-tipper with a crane. Both where very very large, so much that I could have my younger brother and cousin ride in them at the same time. It also helped that were made mostly of metal.

Reminds me of the times when my dad would drive on roads like this

24:25 - Those ramps are for emergency stop for Trucks that either run out of breaks or can not slow the truck due to mechanical reasons. They are filled with special compound and very lose gravel. When you roll on them, they will sink the truck into the ground forcing the truck to come to a complete emergency stop. many locations throughout USA have these. its also known by a few other names one of them being "bailout ramp". Also if you do happen to roll on these, you WILL need a tow truck to get you out, because your truck will be sunk into the ground. Usually a 60 or 80 -Ton Rotator will do the rescue. Because they also can not roll on the "bailout ramp" as they will also get stuck. so a Rotator use used instead. If you happen to be too far along the "bailout ramp" a crane will do the rescue instead, in replacement of the Rotator wrecker.

Hi, the huge ramp at 24:41 that you referred to as a road under construction is actually a run-away ramp for vehicles with overheated brakes after coming down from that steep hill.

So your taking a double BOTTOM trailer out of a HUGE quarry to a place called PINOS Am i the only one thats giggling at this?

Omg, stop looking at the drop, WATCH WHERE UR GOING

I use to work for C.R. England. Seeing the truck blew my mind in nostalgia.

Looks like an awesome vid to me.. Early on I noticed that you keep looking to the back.. all the way left.. since it's a trucking sim.. and I'm a trucker in real life, just wanted to point out that no one does that while driving. :D

Who else was sitting there like “fall off, fall off, fall off.”

Send a Renault in there lol

Brilliant video!! Love watching these classic trips you do

Yup, I Remember Those Tonka Metal Trucks I Actually Manage To Break One As A Child. I Rode On Them BUT When I Got Board, I Started To Take'm Apart.. Could NOT Put It BACK Together.. LOL, LOL The Look On My Mom's Face Was EPIC Since Like You Said They WERE Hard To Break.. ( Then I Came Into The Picture.. ) OOh, My But Was RED From The Spanking I Got.. ( They Were Expensive As Well As Being Metal.. )

"ALTO means STOP in MEXICAN"

"Alto means stop... in Mexican." Keeps driving anyway.

Very well done Squirrel, there are jobs and places like that in California, I used to be a truck driver and I've pulled a double belly dump out of places like that. So again very well done.

I like the quarry ones. Always a challenge to look forward to. Nice rig mate

"As we drive the quarry will get progressively more lit" ... same

"'Alto' means stop in Mexican." XD love it

In fact SCS did extreme maps on the past. Remember 18 WoS Extreme Trucker? It was all about crazy roads and places.

Back when I was growing up in the 70s in Canada I remember having a metal Tonka truck as you mentioned I also remember the advert for it being thrown of a quarry or somthing to that affect and it survived I loved that toy. I was born in Scotland moved there when I wasn't even one year old moved back to Scotland in 79 anyway love you videos and the solo flights anyway keep trucking and perhaps see you on the ETS or ATS someday. coltsigma.

Squirrel I Dare you to get out of the quarry in a Heavy Trailer.(Like if you want Squirrel to do it)

34:10 there is just something not right with that plane.

I like the mine so much that I time trial myself in and out always a challenge to do it more quickly. I think it's the most spectacular scenery ever in ATS, although there are a number of spots in Mexico that are just jaw dropping.

That ramp is a runaway ramp in case of brake failure. Frenado meaning braking. Very cool.

pesado means heavy so the route planning is wrong lol

Casually went on YT, I never clicked so fast !

Hi Squirrel very good video. I actually went down and hauled a single trailer out a starting at 9pm and finally got to the top at around 5am . Very exciting driving up there in the dark. Unfortunately did not get my video to work but might have to do it again sometime. Was rather exciting and a big adrenaline rush.

This mod is brilliant! Gorgeous scenery.

This challenge was so easy

4:24 how u zoom like dat

This map is Beautiful. I'd like to see the modders make an American version of this map. Like Squirrel said most maps don't have this much detail.

This map is amazing! Nice driving, my palms were sweating in the quarry. Jesus i hate heights! Great vid as always.

Do more xplane 11

your to close to the edge, i dont care if your the best driver in the world I'm still not getting in that truck you gonna have to air lift me out of that

Hey Paul, I just wanted to say I love your trucking videos man, your Euro truck Sim and American truck Sim are my favorite videos to watch, keep up the great work Paul!!

24:50 It’s a run of ramp for semi’s that can’t stop

It's Spanish, Mexican isn't a language.

In defense of Squirrels" Mexican/Spanish confusion, living in Arizona all my life, I know I can say that the Spanish used by Mexicans this day and age is a language all its own. Based on Spanish but is not proper Castilian Spanish any more. Catalan and Galician are other regional languages in Spain that also get called Spanish, they have differences but they can at least still talk with each other. Having family that speaks Spanish (Bolivian), you would not believe the difficulty they have trying to talk to Mexicans. As far as they are concerned, Mexicans speak Mexican and they speak Spanish. An example to English would be comparing American English to Queens' English. I'm sure if you asked some British people what we speak in America, many would say "American" and not "English". I guess I would have to agree with them. But I'm being too serious. To have a laugh watch this scene in Austin Powers where they use extreme examples of British slang. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NIaiW1XrzxA.html

about the tonka toys i use to have a crane with like a dirt scoop, completely all made out of metal, loved it!

Wow that was a trip! Thankyou for a very enjoyable video squirrel

The ramp around the 25 minute mark was an emergency run-off ramp, the red line down the middle of the road down the hill towards it is just reminding you that you'll gain too much speed if you let your feet off the breaks.

Super enjoying your WTF's of Mexico's roadways. I can relate.

One of the largest open-pit copper mines in the world, the Cananea mine produced over 164,000 tonnes of copper in 2006. The mine is located approximately 40 kilometers south of the border between Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. The Cananea mine in Sonora is Mexico’s largest open pit copper mine, one of the largest in the world and - having opened in 1899 - one of the oldest on the North American continent. From what I can find it's approx 300km DEEP !

Thanks for taking your time to make this video, awesome! Merry Christmas everyone,

Great to see these videos back!

I really hope they follow up personal trailers with pick up locations similar to the current drop offs. Matching "I'm in a hurry" to quick jobs auto connect, "Let's play it safe" to current pick ups for jobs and "Where do you want it" to new harder pick up locations like that quarry, back alleys and other tight spots. All with better fitting names of course

havent played ages but still enjoy your videos, very relaxing, except for when your about to go over the edge!

Yeah real life they're getting those rocks out of the road before any hauling is done hahah

Cool journey out and in the quarry

Good to see ATS getting some love and attention. The VM map is great. It's good to see you cut most of the intro on your videos.

Outstanding drive and review as always!

The ramp is designed for emergency breaking In case of break failure