Vehicle sims

I’ve often been curious as to why there is such a lack of “normal” driving simulator, i.e. non-racing vehicle sims. Euro Truck Simulator seems to be just the thing I was thinking of.

From the site:

Euro Truck Simulator is a European first - A truck simulation game in a European setting, with European long haulage trucks! Drive cargos from Rome to Berlin to Madrid to Prague - and many more cities - in realistic vehicles. Euro Truck Simulator is a faithful reproduction of driving trucks on the European road.

The official site has recently updated their screenshot gallery and, I must admit, it looks gorgeous.

No release date yet, but I’ll be keeping an eye on it. Hopefully there will be a demo soon. I think I could lose days to this one!

This has been around for some time, but I’ve only recently “discovered” it. Trukz is a text-based truck driving simulator.

Here’s the sites description of the sim:

Trukz (pronounced “Trucks”) is a text based trucking simulation game designed to let you try your hand at being a truck driver hauling loads to and from various cities around North America and Europe. There are over 35 cargo types in the game each with its own driver skill requirements so take the little jobs early on to get started and work your way to become the best driver making the most money in the game.

It’s clearly popular, with “31,888 Truckers Simulated To Date” and actually looks like it’s pretty good fun. I think I’ll set up my new company based in London, but I can’t see myself getting to the top of the leaderboard any time soon - the current top driver has nearly 400,000 miles under his belt!