Management sim & route puzzle
Linehaul
Run freight across the mainland, a leg at a time. Every job asks the same two questions a real operator answers every day: which way do I send it, and where do I buy the fuel? You can change your mind at every town — and when the Barrier goes under water at Wilcannia you will have to. Cape York to the Nullarbor, Broome to Brisbane. A bigger combination earns far more per kilometre but the roads it may legally use are fewer, and no road train enters a capital. Diesel swings seventy cents a litre between the Hume and a roadhouse at Cunnamulla, so the short way and the cheap way are often not the same road.
Network
Solid roads take your current combination; faded ones do not. Hover a town for its diesel price, or click one to plan a run there. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan. you destination capital, B-doubles maximum assembly area planned fuel stop your waypoint
Make-up
Plan a run
Fuel is the biggest cost in the business, so where you fill matters more than how you drive. Fill cheap and run through the dear country on what you are carrying — and remember the rego and the finance run whether the wheels turn or not.
What you can carry is equipment, not willpower. The trailer decides what fits; the licence decides what you are allowed to put in it. A prime mover is rated for a gross mass, which is the real reason you cannot simply buy three trailers and call yourself a road train operator.
The best-paying freight on the board is the freight you are not allowed to touch. That is why it pays.
Wear and service
Tyres go with distance, surface and weight; the engine goes with hours of work; brakes go with mass and the rough stuff. Catching one early costs a fraction of running it into the ground — and the truck is only ever as good as its worst item.
Upgrades
Logbook
Distances are real road distances and the access levels follow the real pattern — triples through north-west Queensland, road trains stopping around Cobar, Bourke and Charleville coming east, B-doubles on the highway network, and everything breaking down before a capital. Diesel is priced by corridor, which is why the Hume is cheap and Cunnamulla is not. The board covers the mainland now — Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia, the Territory and Western Australia, with the Nullarbor, the Tanami and the Plenty joining them up. It is a game, not a route planner — do not use it to plan an actual load. Progress saves in this browser. Road distances and road shapes are measured from OpenStreetMap data — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.