Trucking

Truckers are the backbone of Transport Tycoon. We’ve developed a complex web of cargo materials that allow you to simply sell one at a time, or collect and combine cargoes in multi-point routes for maximum profit!

Be sure to ask around for helpful guides developed by the community. Oh, and we also have a custom radio station! We offer TruckersFM,Simulator Radio and UpBeat Radio available in the left-bottom-center area of the radio wheel.

Getting started

If this is your first time trucking, we recommend reading the Getting Started Guide for more in-depth information.

To begin trucking, head to a job center and select the Trucker job. Head to the car dealership to purchase the Speedo Express or a combination of a semi-cab (truck) and trailer. The Speedo Express is free and has a trunk capacity equal to your own inventory capacity from 30kg to 300kg.

Vehicles

Trucking requires a semi-cab (truck) and trailer to store cargo in. Semi-cabs can be bought from a car dealership or alternatively can be spawned at a few locations around the map. Examples include LSIA, Sandy Shores, and LS Docks. Players that are short on cash can begin with the free Speedo Express. The trunk capacity of the Speedo scales with the players' Strength level.

Level requirements	Name	Price	Capacity	Fuel	Top Speed in mph
LVL 1	Speedo Express	$0	30kg to 300kg	70L (Petrol)	115

Name	Price	Capacity
MK1 (Pup Trailer)	$400,000	400kg
MK2 (Trailer)	$600,000	475kg
MK3 (Log Trailer)	$1,250,000	600kg
MK4 (Bottom Dump Trailer)	$5,000,000	775kg
MK5 (Dry Bulk Trailer)	$10,000,000	1000kg
MK6 (Dump Trailer)	$18,000,000	1500kg
MK7 (Container Trailer Small)	$30,000,000	2200kg
MK8 (Container Trailer)	$45,000,000	2500kg
MK9 (Refrigerated Trailer)	$75,000,000	2750kg
MK10 (Refrigerated Trailer)	$100,000,000	3000kg
MK11 (TV Trailer)	$160,000,000	3500kg
MK12 (TV Trailer 2)	$250,000,000	5000kg
MK13 (Box Trailer)	$450,000,000	8500kg
MK14 (MOC)	$500,000,000	9000kg

Name	Price	Fuel	Top Speed in mph
Blacktop	$150,000	280L (Diesel)	81
Packer	$750,000	280L (Diesel)	89
Phantom	$1,000,000	280L (Diesel)	86
Road Killer	$1,500,000	280L (Diesel)	100
Civilian Barracks	$1,500,000	280L (Diesel)	100
Hauler	$1,500,000	280L (Diesel)	76
Long Path	$900,000	280L (Diesel)	101
Phantom Heavy Haul	$1,500,000	280L (Diesel)	98
Ural	$1,500,000	280L (Diesel)	99
Cerberus Classic	$1,500,000	280L (Diesel)	98
Cerberus HD	$1,500,000	280L (Diesel)	98
CollinsCo Phantom	$1,500,000	280L (Diesel)	102
G.O. Hauler	$1,500,000	280L (Diesel)	95
Docktug	$50,000	280L (Diesel)	59
Phantom Custom ⭐	$1,500,000	280L (Diesel)	Unknown
Hauler Custom ⭐	$1,500,000	280L (Diesel)	Unknown
Chernobog Toter (MK15) ⭐	$10,000,000,000	280L (Diesel)	69 (60 with mk14 Trailer)
Phantom Wedge ⭐	$50,000,000,000	280L (Diesel)	109 (w/o Trailer) 103 (with mk13 Trailer) 95 (with mk14 Trailer)

In order to obtain the Chernobog Toter, you need to buy the Hauler ($1.50M), go to LSIA Upgrade Station, upgrade it to the Hauler Custom ($5.00M), spawn the Hauler Custom (hauler2), go to LSIA upgrade station, and pay $10 Billion ($10,000,000,000). The Chernobog Toter has a base carry capacity of 6000kg (6900kg with Premium).

The Phantom Wedge is obtainable through purchasing & upgrading Phantom ($1.00M) to Phantom Custom ($10M) then to Phantom Wedge ($50B) at the LSIA Upgrade Station.

Basic Commercial Routes

You start a trucking route by picking up cargo from one of the following cargo sellers. Go to the cargo seller to obtain your cargo, load as much as you can in your vehicle and then head to a Cargo Buyer that accepts the cargo to sell it. Logs, Recycled Trash, Toxic Waste, Recycled Electronics and Quarry Rubble are all part of more in-depth commercial trucking routes. Make sure to have a look at the Advanced Cargo Routes section.

Cargo	Weight	Location	Requirements2
Tools1	1kg	Cargo Buyer: Tools	Level 1
Erasers1	3kg	Cargo Buyer: Erasers	Level 3
Logs	60kg	Logging Camp	Level 6
Recycled Trash	90kg	Recycling Center	Level 9
Toxic Waste	110kg	LSIA Waste Depot	Level 11
Recycled Electronics	130kg	Electronics Store	Level 13
Quarry Rubble	150kg	Quarry	Level 15

1. Erasers and Tools can only be placed in the Speedo Express or Mk1, Mk2, Mk3, or Mk4 Trailers. All other trailers will show an error when adding to trunk

2. The trucking level required indicates the level at which the map blip is unlocked. You can actually take any of these items to your trunk at any trucking/strength level.

Logging

Logging is unlocked at level 6, this is the first type of trucking where there are multiple steps in the process. You want to pick up Logs from the Logging Camp, take the Logs to the Sawmill to turn them into Sawdust or Planks. Both the Sawdust and the Planks can be sold at the LS Port Export or stored in Self Storages to be combined with other items.

Recycled Materials Base Process

At level 9 you will unlock Recycled Trash, this can be picked up from the Recycling Center. You want to take the Recycled Trash to the Sorting Facility to obtain three materials from it. Plastic can be exported from the McKenzie Export. Copper and Gold can be refined at the LS Foundry. Refined Tin and Refined Aluminium are exported from the LS Port Export. From here, the process will evolve allowing more materials and new combinations of materials. The more steps the process has, the more you will earn from it. Item descriptions and exploration of the different locations should lead you on to new processes.

This is a flowchart showing one of the Level 13 Electronics processes:

Advanced Cargo Routes

Logs, Recycled Trash, Toxic Waste, Recycled Electronics, Quarry Rubble, and Methamphetamine are part of more in-depth trucking routes that allow you to create advanced items such as houses.

Cargo Sellers:

Cargo	Weight	Location	Requirements
Logs	60kg	Logging Camp	Level 6
Recycled Trash	90kg	Recycling Center	Level 9
Toxic Waste	110kg	LSIA Waste Depot	Level 11
Recycled Electronics	130kg	Electronics Store	Level 13
Quarry Rubble	150kg	Quarry	Level 15

The advanced trucking routes can be complex and overwhelming. There are several video guides for some of the trucking routes such as Batteries and Concrete that can be found on the Youtube Tutorials page. There are also calculators available for advanced trucking to help you such as a Trucking Calculator and Trucking Cargo Mastersheet. Note that these may be outdated. You can also find sheets in #tycoon-spreadsheets on Discord.

The following image is outdated and should only be looked at to get a general idea of how advanced trucking works. Prices and weights are no longer accurate and new routes have been introduced since. This overview will be updated later in 2022.

Jewelry

Jewelry is created from Quarry Rubble of the Quarry and Recycled Electronics of the Electronics Store, and sold at the Jewelry Store.

Batteries

Batteries are created from Quarry Rubble of the Quarry, Recycled Trash of the Recycling Center and Toxic Waste of the LSIA Waste Depot.

Premium Trucking Routes

There are Currently 3 Tycoon Premium Trucking Routes.

Concrete

Concrete is created from Quarry Rubble from the Quarry, Logs from a Logging Camp, Unfiltered Water from the Land Act Reservoir and Toxic Waste from the Elysian Island Waste Deposit. It can be sold at the Alta Construction Site.

Rebar

And then there is also the Rebar Route.

House

The House route uses every Advanced Trucking Route and all other Premium Trucking Routes and makes them to one ultimate Route. It requires Tycoon Premium and Lvl 100 Trucking to complete. Houses can be made at the House Construction Site.

Trucking Sub-types

Some trucking sub-routes require a trucking sub-job as well. These jobs can be acquired at the Trucking HQ . There are several trucking sub-jobs available:

• Commercial
• Refrigerated
• Military
• Petrochemical
• Illegal
• Master

It is also possible to change sub-job by using a Trucker's PDA. They can be obtained by buying it on the Marketplace, buying from a player and is also a possible reward from a Treasure Chest (Daily).
The master sub-job is obtained at 1,000,000 (1M) trucking experience, and allows you to see all (sub-)trucking transformers at once.

Trucking (Refrigerated)

Airline Meals redirects here, for the dedicated Airline Meal page, visit Airline Meal.

Refrigerated trucking unlocks at level 10 Trucking and allows food to be shipped or used as airline meals. Meat can be either Meat, the end-product of Hunting, or Fish Meat from Fishing. Airline Meals can also be used as a bonus item for the Airline Pilot job. Refrigerated trucking adds the following cargo sellers:

Cargo	Weight	Location
Vegetables	15kg	Great Chaparral Farm
Dairy Products	15kg	Grapeseed Farms

Refrigerated trucking has the following trucking routes:

Trucking (Petrochemical) / (Military)

Petrochemical and Military trucking are unlocked at level 10 trucking and are separate sub-jobs, where petrochemical cargo is required to create cargo in the military sub-job. These sub-jobs add the following cargo sellers:

Cargo	Weight	Location	Sub-Job
Crude Oil	150kg	LS Oil Pumping Station	Petrochemical Trucking
Raw Gas	150kg	GSD Gas Pumping Station	Petrochemical Trucking

Petrochemical and Military trucking has the following trucking routes. You need to do both routes to make Explosives which can be used to get other Trucking Cargo as shown below.

Trucking (Illegal)

Illegal trucking requires level 17 trucking and Premium License. There are three routes: Box of Full Pill Capsules, Defibkit Route and Pills Route. Illegal trucking adds the following cargo seller to purchase Methamphetamine and fill pills:

Cargo	Weight	Location	Requirements
Methamphetamine	10kg	Liquor Ace	Level 17 and Premium

Full Pill Capsules & Defibkit Routes

Pills Route

Vehicle Shipments

Trucking level 100 and Tycoon Premium are required to do this process.

You can create different Vehicle Shipment Cards.
You can either use these and the vehicle will go to your garage permanently,
or you can sell them on the marketplace.

Available Vehicle Shipments

• Annis ZR-350
• Coil Rocket Voltic (OUTDATED: You can make a Upgrade Kit instead a Vehicle Shipment now)
• Coil Savanna ("Cybertruck")
• Hijak Vertice
• HVY Nightshark (Currently unavailable due to removal of Liberty City and its required LC Tokens)
• Karin Futo
• Karin Futo GT Hatch (OUTDATED: Can only be obtained with a Upgrade Kit now)
• Landstalker XL (REQUIREMENT: Unlocked Secret from "SD Card: Landstalker XL Blueprint")
• 10F (REQUIREMENT: Unlocked Secret from "SD Card: 10F Blueprint")

Needed Materials

VEHICLE	Car Battery	Chassis	Vehicle Framework	Wheels	Circuit Boards	Fiberglass Spools	Glass	Refined Amalgam	Traction Batteries	Titanium	Military Goods	Treated Water	Kerosene
Annis ZR-350	1	1	1	4	5	15	25	50	0	0	0	0	0
Hijak Vertice	1	1	1	4	5	15	25	50	0	0	0	0	0
Karin Futo	1	1	1	4	5	15	25	50	0	0	0	0	0
Coil Rocket Voltic (Upgrade Kit)	1	1	1	4	5	15	25	50	0	0	0	0	100
Coil Savanna ("Cybertruck")	1	1	1	4	5	35	25	50	3	0	0	0	0
HVY Nightshark	2	2	2	4	12	25	15	40	0	60	4	1	0
Landstalker XL	2	1	1	4	10	30	50	100	0	0	0	0	0
10F	1	1	1	4	5	25	25	50	0	0	0	0	0

Crafting Locations

The new used Items

• Car Battery
• Chassis
• Traction Battery
• Vehicle Framework
• Wheels

Can be crafted at the Vehicle Parts (Paleto Bay)

If you have all needed Materials you can craft
the Vehicle Shipment at the Vehicle Factory (Los Santos, Rancho)

SD-Cards

SD Cards were added in the November 10th update in 2021. SD Cards are mainly used to unlock new routes for the Trucking job.

Ways To Obtain SD Cards

1. Prospecting (Prospecting) - To prospect simply go in game and find a white circle on the map, and press E to start prospecting. (Make sure you own a prospecting scanner.)

2. Daily Chests - This is another way of getting a SD Card. (To get your daily chests you simply login everyday)

3. Player To Player (Marketplace) - This is the easiest way to obtain encrypted SD Cards & decrypted SD Card Recipes. (Can only be done via marketplace as SD Cards are untradeable! )

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How do SD Cards work

1. When you got a Encrypted SD Card you need to keep them in your Inventory.

2. Then go to the FIB Building. In the entrance area you will see a green Marker next to the Desk where you can decrypt SD-Cards (Start Scan), see what Secrets you have unlocked already (View learned Secrets) and check your current scan (Check Scan).

3. Choose "Start Scan" and choose the decrypting method. You can choose between the following options:

• Instant Scan (0h) = $1,000,000,000 (ONE TIME USE)
• Slow Scan (48h) = FREE
• Regular Scan (12h) = $200,000,000
• Fast Scan (4h) = $1,000,0000,000

4. After the scanning Time you should have the Decrypted SD Card in your Inventory. IF NOT: Go to the FIB Building again and choose "Check Scan"

5. If you want to learn the secret recipe of the SD Card you got choose it in your Inventory and hit "Unlock secret". You have learned the secret recipe now and the SD Card will disappear.

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What kind of decrypted SD-Cards exist?

Decrypted SD-Card Name	Unlockable Secret Recipe	Location to use
SD Card: Asphalt Concrete Refining	1x Crude Oil + 20x Gravel = 20x Asphalt	Refinery (Petrochemical)
	x5 sell Asphalt Concrete	Alta Construction Site (Commercial)
	x25 Sell Asphalt Concrete
SD Card: Cardboard Manufacturing	1x Treated Water + 50x Sawdust = 5x Cardboard	LS Factory (Commercial)
	x1 Sell Cardboard	McKenzie Export (Commercial)
	x5 Sell Cardboard
SD Card: Chipboard Planks	5x Logs + 30x Sawdust = 15 Planks	Sawmill (Commercial)
SD Card: Copper Alloy	10x Sulfur + 20x Raw Ore Mix = 20 Refined Copper	LS Foundry (Commercial)
SD Card: Crispy Fish	1000x Fish Meat + 20x Sawdust = 10x Frozen Raw Meat	Clucking Bell Farms (Refrigerated)
SD Card: Crispy Meat	200x Meat + 20x Sawdust = 10x Frozen Raw Meat	Clucking Bell Farms (Refrigerated)
SD Card: Diluted Fuel Refining	2x Treated Water + 3x Crude Oil = 3x Diesel, 3x Petrol, 20x Kerosene	Refinery (Petrochemical)
SD Card: Gravel Pulverizing	1x Explosives + 20x Gravel = 100x Sand	Deep Quarry (Military)
SD Card: Landstalker XL Blueprint	1x Automotive: Chassis + 50x Truck Cargo: Glass + 2x Automotive: Car Battery + 1x Automotive : Vehicle Framework + 100x Trucking Cargo : Refined Amalgam + 10x Truck Cargo : Circuit Board + 30x Truck Cargo: Fiberglass + 4x Automotive: Wheels = Vehicle Shipment: Landstalker XL	Vehicle Factory (Commercial)
SD Card: Sawdust Filler Exploit	5x Logs + 10x Sand = 100x Sawdust	Sawmill (Commercial)
SD Card: Substitute Gold	25x Bronze Alloy + 2x Petrol + 10x Sulfur = 40x Scrap Gold	LS Foundry (Commercial)
SD Card: Titanium Jewelry	1x Titanium + 4x Refined Gold = 4x Jewelry	LS Factory (Commercial)
SD Card: Titanium Reinforcement	6x Titanium = 2x Rebar	LS Factory (Commercial)
SD Card: Ore Mix Recycling	1x Explosives + 15x Raw Ore Mix = 90x Sand	Deep Quarry (Military)
SD Card: Plastic Export Contact	x100 Sell Plastic	McKenzie Export (Commercial)
SD Card: Waste Water Cleaning	2x Petrochem: Waste Water = 1x Treated Water	Water Treatment Plant
SD Card: Zinc Alloy	2x Propane + 20x Raw Ore Mix = 20x Refined Zinc	LS Foundry (Commercial)
SD Card: Conveyor Rental	$30,000 + 1x Copper Ore Voucher + 1x Iron Ore Voucher = 1x Raw Emeralds, 10x Gravel, 3x Raw Ore Mix	Filtering Plant (Commercial)
SD Card: 10F Blueprint	$22,500,000 + 50x Refined Amalgam + 5x Circuit Board + 1x Chassis + 1x Car Battery + 4x Wheels + 25x Fiberglass + 1x Vehicle Framework + 25x Glass = 1x Vehicle Shipment: 10F	Vehicle Factory (Commercial)

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Work In Progress

Trucking Alternative (LITE Transportation)

If you are looking for a trucking alternative/enrichment and want to earn some Trucking BXP, check out the partnered server: LITE Transportation