Dynamic Cargo Loading & Unloading in ETS2 Update 1.57
26-10-2025, 12:10. Author: admin
🎉 Learn how to reverse into docks, watch the progress bar, and manage cargo damage. A must-read guide for Euro Truck Simulator 2 players seeking ultimate realism. This feature revolutionizes the core gameplay loop of picking up and delivering goods.
Instead of an instant transfer, players must now carefully reverse their truck into a designated loading bay. A visual progress bar appears, showing the loading/unloading process in real-time, which advances the in-game clock. This adds a new layer of strategy, as any pre-existing cargo damage will now directly impact your final payment.
Key Features:
- 🪵 Logger trailers only (for now): Haul Logs, Large Tubes, or Iron Pipes
- 🏗️ Realistic loading/unloading: Watch material handlers 🏗️ or crawler excavators 🚜 automatically load/unload your cargo
- 📍 Auto GPS update: Destination updates once loading is complete
- 🧭 “Where do you need it?”: Choose unloading point at delivery depots
- Makes the simulation more immersive and realistic 🏗️ — instead of “just pick up cargo”, you see the process of loading/unloading.
- Encourages new gameplay variety: routes to sawmills, construction sites, steelworks etc with new interaction mechanics.
Where Can You Experience It?
- 🇫🇮 Nordic Horizons DLC: Timber harvest depots
- 🇬🇷 Athens, Greece: One custom shipyard depot
- 🏭 Base map + all map DLCs: Sawmills, steelworks, construction sites, material stores & more!
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