Point at any road in your Cities: Skylines city and press F8: your Euro Truck Simulator 2 truck rolls out onto your city's own lanes, heading the way your camera faces, and you drive it from the driver's seat.
A real cab around you. You sit behind a dashboard, not floating over the road:
a speedometer and rev counter with moving needles, plus the gear and your fuel on the cluster;
a steering wheel that turns through every bend and swings to full lock at a turnaround;
two side mirrors that really show the road, the traffic and your trailer behind you;
green blinker tell-tales that flash, with a relay tick;
your ETS2 truck's make on the dash.
Mouse steering. If mouse steering is on in your ETS2 profile, the mouse turns the cab's steering wheel. On roads with two or more lanes your way, steer to move over a lane. Close to a junction, steer to pick your exit. The truck always stays on the city's lanes.
Steady lanes. The truck keeps its lane through every road join, so no more sudden swerves on highways.
Navigation map. An ETS2-style map in the corner turns with your truck and shows your route in orange, the stop and the next turn.
More look snaps. ETS2's look front-left and front-right (Q and R by default) give you a quick check of your mirrors.
Cargo jobs from your own city. Press F9 while driving to open the job board. The offers come from your city's real factories, farms, forestry, oil and ore businesses, each shipping its own product (goods, crops, timber, oil, ore) to one of your shops. Pick one with your blinker keys and F9.
SatNav. A turn-by-turn panel tells you "In 120 m, turn left", which blinker to set, the distance to go and your deadline. You still steer by blinker yourself, and a missed turn means it reroutes.
Load and deliver. Stop at the factory to load; the cargo's weight really slows your truck down. Then drive to the shop and stop to unload.
Get paid. Pay depends on distance and cargo. Arriving on time adds 20%, arriving late cuts 30%, and each collision on the job takes 10% off. The money goes into your own trucker wallet, saved on your PC, and your city earns a delivery fee for its budget too.
Your garage (new). Stop and press F10 to open it:
Your ETS2 truck is always in it, free to run, and hauls standard jobs up to 20 t.
Buy bigger trucks with your trucker wallet: the City Rigid (€1,500), the Heavy Tractor (€4,500, loads up to 28 t) and the Super Heavy Hauler (€12,000, loads up to 40 t). Each looks different on your roads.
Upgrade the one you drive: engine stages for more pull, gearbox stages for a higher top speed, and bigger fuel tanks.
Heavy and super-heavy jobs (new). The job board also offers 21–28 t and 30–40 t loads that pay 1.6× and 2.4×. A job your truck can't carry shows which truck it needs, and a big load really pulls slowly.
Diesel for bought trucks (new). Bought trucks burn fuel as they drive, more when loaded, and the dash shows your tank and range. Some of your city's shops sell diesel; they show as yellow squares on the map. Stop at one and press F10 to fill up, or let the garage set the SatNav to the nearest one. Run dry and you can call a fuel delivery wherever you are, at a price.
City traffic that reacts to you. City cars, buses and trucks see your truck and give way: they brake behind it, queue up and wait for it at junctions instead of driving through it.
Collisions. There's no automatic braking, so braking in time is up to you. Drive into a vehicle and your truck stops dead, with a crash sound and a "COLLISION! You hit a car at 47 km/h" message. The dashboard counts your collisions on this drive.
Real-time traffic. While you drive, your city runs at real speed, so traffic moves at its signed speed and matches your truck: 50 km/h on a city street really is 50 km/h. The city stays at 1x and can't be paused or sped up while you drive; your speed setting comes back when you get out.
Your ETS2 controls. Your throttle, brake, blinker, look and camera binds come straight from your ETS2 profile, whether they're keyboard keys or mouse buttons. They work on any keyboard layout, with Num Lock on or off.
Turns by blinker. At each junction the blinker picks the turn: left, right, or straight on with no blinker. It cancels after the turn, just like in ETS2.
Look around. Snap left, centre and right with your ETS2 look keys to check your mirrors, or switch to the chase view with your ETS2 camera keys.
Your actual truck. Keep ETS2 running with your truck parked and the engine on. The cab and the driving then use your real truck: its make and model, gearbox, rpm limit, fuel and engine wear, plus the cargo you're hauling and its mass. The trailer only appears when one is hitched in ETS2.
Playing: press Play and both games start. In ETS2, load your profile, park somewhere safe and leave the engine running. Then switch to your city, point at a road and press F8. F9 opens the job board, F10 the garage, and F8 again gets you out.
How it works:
A small ETS2 plugin built on SCS Software's official Telemetry SDK shares your truck's details on your PC.
The Cities: Skylines mod reads those details and your ETS2 binds, then drives one of your city's own cargo trucks along its lanes. City cars see it through the same checks they use for each other.
It builds the cab from simple shapes, made in code.
No game files are shipped.
Notes:
Solo, one player.
Without ETS2 running, the truck still drives, using default truck numbers.
Like any Cities: Skylines mod, it turns off Steam achievements for that city.
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