Millie's American Truck Simulator Travels

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do you actually sleep in that cab or is that just where you keep your candy reserves

Wakatsuki Nico (CV: Carly Robin Ravenswood)

Imipolex_G ¿Por qué no los dos?

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fair enuff

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Los Angeles, CA to Seattle, WA – Day 3

Tuesday, 7:00 AM
California Highway Patrol Cottonwood Enforcement Facility
Cottonwood, California

Perhaps we’ve slept too early. We now have only 15 hours left until our delivery deadline—and only 12 hours before we’ll need to rest again. We’re going to have to get to Seattle very quickly…especially considering we haven’t even left California yet.

Once again, back onto I-5.

I’ll admit, this trip isn’t really interesting enough to have been liveblogged like this. We’re staying to the same highway the entire time, only stopping for rest and inspections. I promise we’ll do something much more interesting next time.

At least this stretch of I-5 is reasonably scenic.

Hey! We’re finally to the Oregon state line!

Naturally, as soon as we cross the state line, we’re asked to stop for another DOT inspection.

I’m not gonna lie, I started speeding for most of the rest of the trip. We didn’t have time to take another rest break, and I wanted to get our delivery finished before we fell asleep at the wheel.

i am a responsible driver please give me a cdl in real life

It’s about 12:30 PM as we pass through Eugene.

It seems like every city on the west coast has overly elaborate highway interchanges. Midwestern cities twice the size of Eugene don’t have junctions this complicated.

Around 2:30 PM, we enter the Portland area. We’re so close, friends!

There’s a interesting story behind this, I’m certain! But right now all I care about is that these idiots are blocking the right lane.

Onwards to Seattle!

Another of those convoluted interchanges. I’ll admit it feels less out of place in Portland than it did in goddamn Eugene.

Oh, it’s raining now. I have heard that it rains a lot in the Pacific Northwest.

We cross the Columbia River, and with that, we enter the state of Washington!

Still a ways to go to along I-5.

Tacoma, everybody!! We’re so close!!

It’s just before 6:00 PM as we finally enter Seattle, marked by the start of a variable speed limit zone.

(I am still speeding, naturally.)

Departing I-5 for the last time! On this trip, I mean. It’s not like the highway is being demolished or something.

convoluted interchange convoluted interchange convoluted interchange

Finally, about 6:30 PM, we reach our destination, the Port of Seattle…

…where we deposit our cargo amongst the massive stacks of shipping containers.

Thus concludes our journey.

Tuesday, 7:00 PM
Port of Seattle
Seattle, Washington

That was honestly a lot more boring than I expected, so I want to do something special for our next trip. How about a Special Transport mission? 👀

Millie’s ’80s song of the night is “Pour Some Sugar on Me” by Def Leppard. Not because it has any relevance to today’s journey, but just because it was the first ’80s song that popped into my head and I figured it’s as good to leave here as any.

Wakatsuki Nico (CV: Carly Robin Ravenswood)

livin’ like a lover with a red iPhone

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I wanna stop at Donut Planet

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Special Transport: Pendleton, OR to Burns, OR

To make up for our last trip having been so boring, let’s try a special transport job. Special transport jobs involve carrying oversize loads, and there are a few special rules:

We must keep to the designated route—no rest stops, fuel stops, or other diversions.
We’ll have both a lead escort vehicle (for today’s job, an Oregon state trooper) and a rear escort vehicle.
We must keep our truck between the two escort vehicles at all times.
The police will be stopping traffic for us at intersections and junctions, so we will be disregarding all stop signs and traffic lights.

Got it? Cool! Let’s go!

It’s a rainy Wednesday morning in Pendleton, Oregon, where we’re loading up our cargo: a prefab house to be delivered to a construction site in Burns.

Time to hit the road!

Our front escort vehicle deliberately straddles the centerline to “nudge” oncoming traffic out of our way…

…and additional police vehicles are stationed at junctions stopping traffic for us to pass.

They’ve even stopped traffic on the freeway so we don’t have to attempt to merge.

This is the only clear picture I managed to get of the rear escort vehicle, if you were wondering what it looks like.

Is it wrong that I don’t feel sorry for all these people we’re inconveniencing?

Our little motorcade, viewed head-on.

Carrying on down US 395.

Did they make those two trucks pull off the road so we could navigate that curve more easily? That’s kind of funny.

In case you forgot: We’re driving an entire house around.

(Out of character: I should probably file a bug report for the misspelling of “Prairie City” on these signs at the junction of US 26 and US 395.)

Navigating some more tight curves. These would be harrowing even with a standard trailer, let alone a freakin’ house.

Though, apparently, the police have been holding oncoming traffic for us to make it a little easier, which is appreciated.

Also, it’s stopped raining.

And so we arrive in Burns. We’re almost to our destination.

I can’t stop laughing at this guy on a side street trying to take pictures of our motorcade with his phone.

You two, uh…you two parked a little close there, wouldn’t you say?

Finally, we arrive at our destination. It wasn’t a particularly long journey, and admittedly wasn’t as interesting to document as I thought it would be, but hopefully you all have enjoyed it anyway.

And that’s it!

Bonus: Look how much traffic has been backing up behind us once we entered Burns. Bahahahahaha

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Millie’s Day Off, I Guess – Burns, Oregon

Now that we’ve successfully delivered that cute little blue house, let’s head around the corner to the truck stop to get some “upgrades” done to our truck.

(It’s crazy just how closely these in-game truck stops are modeled on their real-world equivalents!)

Anyways, I’m a narcissist. It’s time to show off my big pink truck!!

You didn’t think you were gonna get out of here without seeing the inside of my truck too, right?

Anyways, we’re done here in Burns, so I’mma go park the truck at MILFTRANS’s nearest garage—which happens to be in Bend—and, I dunno, go to the mall with @Anonus or something.

Peace, out!

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Millie’s Day Off, Part 2 – Bend, Oregon

One of the features introduced in newer versions of ATS is the Used Truck Market. Used trucks are rated on a scale of ⭐️ to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, with any truck ranking below ⭐️⭐️⭐️ classified as not roadworthy and unable to be put in service with a hired driver.

So, naturally, I enjoy buying 1-⭐️ trucks and drive them around just for fun.

Here at the MILFTRANS garage in Bend, I’ve kept a 1-⭐️ old Volvo VNL 2014 I bought for next to nothing.

We’re not hauling a load, so there’s nowhere in particular to go. So why don’t we just head towards the Volvo dealership in Eugene to have our truck assessed? I don’t plan to put this truck back in service, but I’m interested to see what it would cost to bring it up to standards.

This is somehow even worse than I expected. The recommended repairs would cost us $63,000 and the truck still would not be up to standard to return to service without further restoration work. No thanks.

We don’t have enough time to get back to the garage in Bend before I’d need to sleep, but thankfully, the Volvo dealership has an overnight parking area, so we can just rest here.

The following morning, we’re up at the break of dawn and ready to head back to Bend.

The return trip is uneventful.

Well, except for the part where I got fined for flying past a state trooper at 80 mph in a 60 mph speed limit. That was, uh, interesting.

And that’s it! I promise our next update will actually involve some kind of freight hauling, not just me dinking around with the various truck tweaks. Stay tuned!!

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