Transport Fever 2 - The Trouble with Truck Stations is... 

Excellent explanation! I'm only a couple of months into this game. Truck stops were driving me nuts. I thought my vehicles all had OCD until you explained the ccw and rh loading. Thanks a lot!

Truck stations play a way too big role in this game for me. Each industry should have it's own truck stations inside, each cargo railway stations should have a truck station. The only place where you should be forced to use a truck station is if you want a central HUB for redistribution.

This was very good as I didn't know you could assign a line to different terminals.

This was one of the first TF2 videos I watched and I remember at the time being so clueless and overwhelmed by what you were talking about, as well as the same feeling when trying to play the game. I think I resorted to really simple river cargo for my first run but now I'm back with a "Fully" fledged logistics company and need to know how to optimise my 20+ truck stops lol

No way, build it sideways and make it a drive-through

Most of this I had figured out, I would say use 1 unloading platform for every line as long as you have no issues. If you get slowdown add another. But I would add one loading for each loading route, it not only spreads thing out more but lets you see if you have a line with fewer goods. You may be able to move some trucks around once you see which lines are congested or empty. What I learned, and something I struggled a lot with with, was getting the one way entrances to work as I think they should. I should be able to sort them out after watching this one. :)

Awesome, I've been looking for a how to on Truck stations. This one is great!

When it comes to any building that isn't a direct raw resource (grain, crude oil, etc) you can use the drop off points to help prevent jams, just place them outside and it acts how you'd expect, depoting their resources directly into the building. This way, only those picking up the refined resources can use the truck station. This is handy for when you have limited space

Thankyou! Very helpful.

Yea i guess it is pretty inefficient for all lines to unload on the same platform. Especially when you have so many lines coming in from everywhere. It's a bit of a nobrainer. I just wasn't sure how to use the one way entrance/exits properly. I didn't realize you could just delete the main entrance like that.

I can still foresee issues with your solution, a big one stemming from the fact you said you play with your trucks set to wait until fully loaded. Well if you have 2 steel trucks come in together and the Steel Mill only has one of the 2 things, Coal or Iron, those steel trucks will be blocking the entry and not let any Iron/Coal trucks in. What I would do personally is have 3 platforms, one for your 3 Coal lines, one for your 3 Iron lines, and one for the Steel pick up and have a one way entrance in line for each platform and a single exit. From my experience this is the best way to deal with multiple lines in a single station.

Like the video. Some inspiration: video about droppoint Drop point mix vehicles This is wat I like to make : Raw materials go from A to B - from B there are 2 lines : - Goods to C (city end user) with trucks - Goods to D (docks with boat )and from D to E (city end user )

Thank you!

on TF1 (yes i still have the legacy version) i have a truck station on a mail line that isnt collecting any mail from the mail center, it makes it, it stores it, it says it uses the line, but it just doesnt load any mail on to the platforms. i have probably more than 20 trucks on that line. still doesnt load anything can i get some help to fix that? nvm got it fixed

Usually I would make separate truck stations for receiving and sending items. Say, using your setup, I would have one dropoff station (which is two platforms long) and one sendoff station (that I would adjust according to the output rate of the factory in question). Also, to avoid traffic, both stations have their own access road, and like how you set up yours, they have separate in and out roads. But definitely your advise here is very good for beginners and for users who like to centralize cargo distribution. And oh, the same rule for me applies to my trains and ships as well.

Give us first person train toure in one video

HI, you say you use the "load all" setting but what minimum & maximum waiting times do you use?

Can the ingame vehicles also drive on the left side of the road just like in the UK?

Is there a way to have the truck stations load onto multiple outgoing routes better? I set up a route going from a quarry to a place that turns the stone into construction materials(brick) and then continued on to take the brick to a town. This doesn't work very well as the trucks then have downtime while they wait for that stone to be turned into brick. So I set up another route with just a couple of trucks to go from quarry to brick so it could get ahead. But then the quarry would only load the trucks on the shorter route and the others were lucky to get even one stone before carrying on even with a 2 minute wait. It would even start losing product because it simply wouldn't load them. It's there a way to fix this in case some of the product needs to go to another destination or town?

By putting the exit where you did, entering trucks and exiting trucks had to merge 🤦‍♂️

How can we distribute, let's say tools from tool factory to two locations equally from a truck station, the station/factory just piles up one terminal and the other one doesn't get anything...

how many trucks do you need?

Thanks there is a depot mod that gives you up to 8 platform road depot to just plonk down on steam.

Very helpful and neat. But what happens if the trucks are queuing to gain access to the platform to pick up goods/ My biggest problem is that trucks queing for platform X block access for trucks trying to reach platform Y. Ideally what I'd like is a separate entrance and exit for each platform but I can;t seem to make that happen.

But my problem is truck is not piking steel from station

Please, turn off the noise reduction (or whatever it's called) of your microphone. It's annoying to the ears when the sound goes on and off.

I hate every youtube channel that desperately begs for the likes and subs *before* delivering the content.

You need more experience bro, i understand it's old video tho.

that was a waste of time