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Script name: Trucking Script Image

Script author: TomsonTom

 

 

 

 
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Introduction

For a long time, LS:RP lacked of a trucking job where people could drive a truck and transport different types of cargo all through San Andreas. It changed in 2011 when Damian introduced the Trucker Career. It has offered us a new way to earn money legally while having fun doing so. It has also brought us a new official faction! However it is not a secret that the trucking career is basically just about driving mindlessly from one checkpoint to another. You don't even need to care what you are transporting, because the script does everything for you. Isn't now the right time to do something about it?

 

With the new Vehicle System incoming, it is the right time to implement something like a new version of the trucker career script. It is going to offer much more entertaining activities, including loading cargo with your friends, robbing truckers and stealing their goods, planning the right route to pick up and sell all the cargo and much more! And the trucker career is finally going to be connected to the Business Script, allowing business owners to order components from truckers.

 

Summary

Don't have time to read it all? Here's a short summary of the most important things!

 

• Truckers may choose what to transport, where from and where to transport it,

• which means that realistic convoys are now possible!

• It also means that trucking isn't just the "drive from A to B" boring job anymore! You now have to plan wisely!

 

• Businesses now depend on truckers and their cargo,

• which means that truckers will influence the LS:RP business economy,

• which means no more infinite fuel in gas pumps, no infinite drinks in bars and no infinite meals in restaurants!

• This also opens the way for contracts between business owners and trucker factions!

 

• You can now rob truckers and steal their cargo,

• which opens the way for bootlegged products in restaurants, bars, 24/7s, etc.,

• and which should bring new roleplay opportunities to truckers, mafias and sheriffs!

 

• You can now do trucking with your friends, who can help you load and unload the crates from your truck!

• Official factions can order a Forklift to speed up the (un)loading process.

• New factions (such as the Ocean Docks Labor Union) may be created and help truckers!

 

• No more free trucks! You wanna work as a trucker? Join a faction or buy a truck yourself!

• This should get rid of people who crash everything with their free trucks.

 

How to become a trucker?

Note: This job is only available for civilians (who're not in any official faction).
The only exceptions would be official trucking factions.

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  1. Get the trucker job
    1. Use the command /truckerjob. If there aren't any errors, it will navigate you to the trucking office.
    2. When standing next to the doors, use /truckerjob once again. 
    3. You're now a Courier Trainee.
  2. Buy an appropriate vehicle
    1. Look at the list of ranks to see what vehicles are available for your rank.
      You may as well look at the list of all trucking vehicles if you are interested.
    2. Visit a car dealership and buy the vehicle or rent a vehicle. (No free public trucking vehicles are available anymore, except trailers.)
  3. Check what industries offer something
    1. Use the command /tpda
    2. Show all industries
    3. Check a secondary industry, because these ones usually require (want) something from you. Because you can only transport crates if you're a Courier Trainee, let's have a look at the SA Food Processing Plant.
    4. Okay it seems like this industry wants some eggs! As you can see, there are currently 0 crates of 200 in the industry, so it's our time to shine and bring some!
  4. Check where to find the commodity you need yTgbfsD.png
    1. Now have a look at this diagram (hover your mouse above something to display more info). There, you can find out that eggs are generated by farms. Now have a look at this map. Check some farms. I have decided to check The Beacon Hill Eggs farm, because it clearly produces eggs. 
    2. There are 30 crates in stock! Yay! Let's go there with a vehicle that can transport crates and load some! 
  5. Load the cargo on your vehicle
    1. In the /tpda, navigate through to The Beacon Hill Eggs dialog and click on the Proceed button.
    2. Click on Navigate and follow the checkpoint on your map! (Or just drive by the map linked above.)
    3. Since we're buying crates, we have to buy and place them in the vehicle manually. If they weren't crates, we'd drive our truck to the arrow and use the same command. /cargo buy
    4. Go to the back of your vehicle and type /cargo place. (Vehicle must be UNLOCKED!)
    5. Repeat as long as there is place in the vehicle or as long as you have money. In this case you pay $70 per each crate. If you want to return the crate back, use /cargo sell and your $70 will be returned.
  6. Sell the cargo to the next industry
    1. Now navigate to the SA Food Processing Plant → eggs storage using the same way as described in 5.1.
    2. When you get there, step out of your vehicle, go to the back of it and type /cargo list. That will show you everything that is in the vehicle.
    3. Pick the egg crate up by clicking on Pick up.
    4. Go to the white arrow and type /cargo sell. You should receive $170 per each crate.

 

Congratulations!
You have just made your first job as a trucker!

 

      7. The Ship

There are some commodities that can be sold to The Ship. These are fuel, transformers, clothes, beverages, appliances, vehicles, meal, furniture. It works the same way as with industries, but remember that The Ship leaves every 40 minutes and is away for almost 6 minutes. When it returns, it is empty again.

 

If you want to stay on the ship while it goes for the journey, remember to stay out of any vehicle (vehicles except a Forklift aren't allowed on The Ship anyway) and do not jump! You may die easily if you don't follow these rules.

 

More information can be find in the /tpda.

 

       8. Businesses

All businesses require commodities to be able to work. Check the diagram to find out what commodities businesses need. In case you want to deliver something to a business, first make sure that it actually wants something from you.

 

/tpda → Show businesses accepting cargo

 

Example

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The business called The Sportsbook Empo... needs 5 crates of appliances. It pays $50 per one crate. If you double click on that line, it will show you a checkpoint to that business. You can then sell the cargo the same way that you sell it to industries.

 

Note: Businesses and The Ship often buy the same types of cargo. Find out which one pays more and deliver it to the more appropriate one to gain the most.

 

Cargo Transportation

What do truckers get money for? For transporting cargo from one place to another. Yeah, you got it right: this is the most important thing about this script. Let's dive into it and see how it works!

 

There are several kinds of commodities that can be transported. Some of them are stored in crates (boxes). Crates can be picked up by a player and moved on foot. They may be placed in a truck and transported. You may also put them on the ground and let someone else pick them up. Crates are bought in an industry and should be sold to another industry or a business (depending on the commodity).

 

Some of the commodities are however not stored in crates, but rather transported directly on special trucks. This includes wood logs on DFT-30 truck, vehicles on a Packer, scrap metal in a dump trailer, fuel in a tanker, etc.

 

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There is one important thing to be noticed. The cargo is now linked to the vehicle, not to the player that is driving it. This means that if your game (not the server) crashes while driving a truck, nothing gets removed and you may continue doing your job after re-connecting. This however does not apply to crates that are being held in one's hands. They get removed if you crash. Crates placed on ground get automatically removed after approximately 5 minutes.

 

This change is also important for players who would like to roleplay robbing truckers and stealing their goods. As it is now possible to pick up crates from unlocked vehicles and put them to another one, players may attack truckers, block the roads and steal the cargo. It should bring new amazing roleplay opportunities to both truckers and illegal factions, but also to our police departments and security agencies.

 

Not every vehicle is capable of transporting cargo. Crates may be transported in pickup trucks, vans and article trailer. Wood logs may be transported in a DFT-30. Vehicles in a Packer, liquids in a Tanker, loose commodities in a Dump Trailer, etc. To see the full list of trucker career vehicles and what they can transport, see List of Vehicles.

 

For more information about how to use the script, see the Commands section.

 

Industries

Industries are where you may sell and/or buy commodities. That depends on their economic sectors. In real life, the usual breakdown of economic sectors is following: primary, secondary and tertiary. Sometimes we also speak about quaternary sector, but that is not important for LS:RP. The primary and secondary sectors in LS:RP are represented by the industries. The tertiary sector is represented by businesses.

 

Primary industries produce raw materials, such as wood logs, meat and milk. They do not need any commodities to work and so they do not accept any cargo from truckers. However the truckers may buy commodities from these primary industries. They are usually cheap, because they are raw. Some examples of the primary industries would be farms and forests. In LS:RP we also include a refinery, a chemical plant and a federal mint in primary industries.

 

Commodities from primary sector are usually sold to secondary industries, which transform the raw or intermediate materials into goods. These industries require materials to produce goods! This means that truckers must sell primary commodities to secondary industries. Only then these industries will produce secondary commodities.

 

To help you understand which commodities are wanted or for sale, there is an information dialog for each industry. Every industry has got one or more storages. Each storage has got a limited capacity. In the screenshot below you can see that the industry is selling food. There are 26 packages (crates) of food available and every package costs $400. Every hour, some of the input commodities are transformed into food. On the screenshot you can see that the industry accepts 4 different commodities. You may sell them to the industry until the appropriate storage is full.

 

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For example (screenshot above): Right now, you may sell up to 3 tons of grain to the industry (22/25 tons are already in the storage). You would get $250*3 = $750 for that. Every hour, 5 packages of meat, 5 packages of fruit, 3 tons of grain and 500 liters of milk are consumed (removed) and transformed into +5 packages of food each. In this case, as there are enough of all 4 commodities available, 4*5 = 20 new packages of food would be generated next hour.

 

04LnfLa.pngIndustry storages are marked with big white rotating arrows. Above these arrows there is a text label showing what is sold / bought there, how many of it is already in the storage, how big the storage is and how much money you get for selling it or how much money it costs to buy it.

 

In case you accidentally buy something from the storage, you may sell it back to the same storage and your money will be returned.

 

If you're buying or selling a commodity that is stored in a crate, you must buy/sell it on foot. You cannot just drive your truck to the arrow and think that some magic dwarfs are going to (un)load the cargo for you. However, if you're buying or selling a liquid, wood logs, etc. then you just drive your vehicle to the white arrow and use the same commands. Be aware that it takes some time to (un)load such cargo.

 

 

Businesses

Businesses are places such as restaurants, bars, 24/7s and fuel stations. All of them have always needed components to work. Until now components were delivered in special vans, but many business owners just asked an admin to refill their businesses. No one really cared about it. Those components were then automatically transformed into products after a certain amount of time. This is going to change! Businesses now won't have components and products, but only products.

 

All businesses are required to have products to operate. And it is truckers' job to refill them. Commodities bought from secondary industries are delivered to businesses and sold using the same commands. If a business' product price is higher than $0, it means that the owner is buying products and truckers may sell them to the business to refill it. If the cargo price (/cargoprice) is set to $0, the business is not accepting anything. It should bring new roleplay opportunities to business owners and truckers. Businesses are now going to depend on truckers.

 

How does it work? Every business has got a product storage of a limited size. By selling a cargo crate to a business, a specified amount of products is added to the business. The amount of products from 1 crate / commodity can be found in the table below. Note, please, that products are necessary to be able to /enter the business!

 

                      Business Type                                                Accepted Commodities                                              How many products are generated from 1 unit of cargo?

Gas Stations                                                     fuel                                                                                10
Ammunations                                                  weapons                                                                        10
24/7                                                                 appliances                                                                      5
Vehicle Dealerships                                          vehicles                                                                          3
Car Modding Shops                                         car parts                                                                        10
Pay & Spray                                                     dyes                                                                                3
Clothing Shops                                                clothes                                                                            5
Bars                                                                  beverages                                                                       5
Restaurant                                                        meal                                                                               5
Furniture Shop                                                 furniture                                                                         10
Advertisement Center                                      paper                                                                              20
Bank                                                                 cons                                                                                100
Other Businesses                                             nothing                                                                            nothing 

 

 

Product limits and Cargo conversions

All limits and conversion information can be found in this diagram. Businesses are in blue rectangles in the right column. Hover above a business to find out more information.

 

Example:
This means that restaurants get refilled from meal commodity that can be transported from the San Andreas Food Processing Plant. The usual limit for restaurants is 500 products and you receive 5 products for every single box of meal.

 

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How do business lose products?

1 product per every /enter (except owner and employees):

bars, restaurants, liquor, bank, casino

 

1 product per every /buy, /buyclothes, /eat, /ad etc.:

24/7, clothes shops, restaurants, bars, advertisement center

 

1 product per every gallon of gas:

gas stations

 

1 product per $100 worth of furniture:

furniture shop

 

 

B48ZyvD.pngThere are not many businesses in LS:RP and so to prevent secondary industries from overfilling, there is a new ocean ship in Ocean Docks. This ship accepts all secondary commodities for basic price. Truckers may sell their cargo to the ship just like to a regular industry / business. Business owners should set their components price to be slightly higher than the basic price on the ship, otherwise no truckers would sell their cargo to the business, but rather to the ship.

 

The ship docks in Ocean Docks for 40 minutes and then leaves for 5 minutes 40 seconds. After that time interval, another ship arrives with empty storage. Note that you must take the cargo on foot to the white arrows on the ship! However, if you are selling fuel, you DO NOT drive the truck on the ship, but you use a special place on the port.

 

DO NOT DRIVE VEHICLES ON THE SHIP (the only exception is Forklift)

 

 

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Commands

Here is a list of commands you may use.

  • /cargo list

Shows you a menu with a list of cargo loaded in the nearest unlocked vehicle.
Note: By selecting cargo in the menu, you may pick it up from the vehicle.

 

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  • /cargo place

Places the cargo you're currently holding to the nearest unlocked vehicle.

  • /cargo fork

Works only when you're in a Forklift!
Enables you to select which cargo you want to fork (load on your Forklift) from the nearest unlocked vehicle.

 

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  • /cargo putdown

Places the cargo you're currently holding on the ground. (max 2 crates per player, 60 crates per server)

  • /cargo pickup

Picks up the cargo that is laying on the ground.

 

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  • /cargo buy (on foot)

Use this command when you're standing in the white rotating arrow. You'll buy 1 unit of cargo for the storage price. You can then put this cargo to your vehicle or sell it back to the storage using /cargo sell.

  • /cargo buy (in a Forklift)

Works same as on foot, except the cargo is not put in your hands, but in your Forklift.
Max: 3 crates / Forklift

  • /cargo buy (in a truck)

Works same as on foot, except the cargo is loaded on your truck. If you're loading a liquid or a loose cargo, it will take some time to load the cargo in your truck. During this time, you MAY exit your truck and roleplay connecting the trailer, etc.

  • /cargo sell

Works same as /cargo buy, except you're not buying the cargo, but selling it.
This also works next to an entrance to a business that is buying components from you!

  • /tpda

Opens a Trucker's PDA system. Here you can find a list of all industries, ship information, list of businesses that are accepting cargo and information about vehicles.

 

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  • /industry

Shows information dialog about the industry you're currently standing at.

  • /trailer [...]

Those commands can be used when driving a truck with an attached trailer.

 

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List of Job Ranks

Only truckers may drive vehicles while there is cargo in them. The amount of cargo that can be loaded in a vehicle is defined below in the List of Vehicles. You may drive whichever vehicle you want if it is empty. But if there's cargo loaded in it, you're restricted by your experience (rank). You can get higher rank by waiting and working.

 

Note: Bricks loaded on Yosemite take 6 slots.

 

  • Courier Trainee

Hours required: 0
Can transport cargo in: Picador, Sadler, Sadler (shit), Bobcat, Walton, Yosemite

 

  • Courier

Hours required: 12
Can transport cargo in: same as above + Pony, Topfun, Burrito

 

  • Professional Courier

Hours required: + 24 more
Can transport cargo in: same as above + Rumpo, Boxville

 

  • Trucker Trainee

Hours required: + 32 more
Can transport cargo in: same as above + Benson, Mule + DFT-30 + Packer + Securicar

 

  • Trucker

Hours required: + 48 more
Can transport cargo in: same as above + Yankee + Flatbed

 

  • Professional Trucker

Hours required: + 48 more
Can transport cargo in: same as above + Article Trailers, Petrol Trailer, Dump Trailer

 

List of Job Vehicles

There are many vehicles that may be used for trucking! But not all of them can transport everything! There are two important things. The first one is the capacity. Every truck has got a storage of a limited slots. One slot is taken by 1 crate of something or 1 cubic meter of liquids or 1 tonne of loose material. The second important thing to notice is what the truck can transport. Most of the trucks can only transport crates! But there are other important commodities such as wood logs, vehicles, fuel, milk, etc.

 

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  • Transporting Crates

The following commodities are transported in crates:

gunpowder, steel shapes, clothes, wood planks, beverages, meal, car parts, appliances, fruits, meat, eggs

 

     Picador - Job Rank: Courier TraineejrODdmt.png

     Can transport: crates 

     Capacity: 2 slots

 

 

         Sadler - Job Rank: Courier Trainee6im0BYC.png

         Can transport: crates

         Capacity: 2 slots

 

 

        Sadler (shit) - Job Rank: CourierTraineemof9Iwb.png

        Can transport: crates

        Capacity: 2 slots

 

 

         Bobcat - Job Rank: CourierTraineeUNOfjVi.png

         Can transport: crates

         Capacity: 3 slots

 

 

         Walton - Job Rank: Courier TraineeCxZSS8c.png

         Can transport: crates

         Capacity: 4 slots

 

 

    Yosemite - Job Rank: Courier TraineeyCd420n.png
    Can transport: crates, bricks*
    Capacity: 6 slots

 

 

     PonysW84BfD.png - Job Rank: +Courier
     Can transport: crates
     Capacity: 10 slots

 

 


      Topfun (RC van) - Job Rank: +CourierWLRHhKd.png
      Can transport: crates
      Capacity: 10 slots

 

 

 

        Burrito - Job Rank: +CourierCnYTwCg.png
        Can transport: crates
        Capacity: 10 slots

 


     Rumpo - Job Rank: +Professional CourierZTFu9lO.png
     Can transport: crates
     Capacity: 12 slots

 

 

 

    Boxville - Job Rank: +Professional Courier0YLfZdw.png
    Can transport: crates
    Capacity: 12 slots

 

 

 

    Benson - Job Rank: +Trucker TraineeIz0ztTk.png
    Can transport: crates, bricks*
    Capacity: 16 slots

 

 

 

     Mule - Job Rank: +Trucker Trainee3AWm0MJ.png
     Can transport: crates, bricks*
     Capacity: 18 slots

 

 

 

Yankee - Job Rank: +TruckerCs1PaTN.png
Can transport: crates, bricks*
Capacity: 24 slots

 

 

 

 

 

     Article Trailer 1 - Job Rank: +Professional Trucker5f2lvCN.png
     Can transport: crates, bricks*
     Capacity: 36 slots

 

     Article Trailer 2 - Job Rank: +Professional Trucker1HSyJOn.png
     Can transport: crates, bricks*
     Capacity: 36 slots

 

* 1 pallet of bricks = 6 slots

 

  • Transporting Liquids

The following commodities are liquids:
fuel, milk, dyes

 

 

     Petrol Trailer - Job Rank: +Professional TruckerkJVWT0e.png
     Can transport: liquids
     Capacity: 40 slots (40 m³)

 

  • Transporting Loose Material

The following commodities are loose:
scrap metal, cotton, cereal, malt, aggregate

 

Flatbed - Job Rank: +TruckerwLODIvv.png
Can transport: loose
Capacity: 16 slots (16 tonnes)

 

 

 

     Dump Trailer - Job Rank: +Professional TruckerqHXjgOE.png
     Can transport: loose
     Capacity: 30 slots (30 tonnes)

 

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  • Transporting Wood Logs & Transformers 

 

DFT-30 - Job Rank: +Trucker Trainee2A9iVA9.png
Can transport: wood logs, transformers, bricks
Capacity: 18* slots

 

 

*18 slots = 1 wood logs; or 1 transformer; or 3 brick pallets

 

 

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  • Transporting Vehicles

 

Packer - Job Rank: +Trucker TraineeRQ1eu8q.png
Can transport: vehicles
Capacity: 2 slots

 

 

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  • Transporting Expensive Cargo

The following commodities are expensive:
weapons, coins
Note! You'll need a special permission to transport these commodities!

 

   Securicar - Job Rank: +Trucker TraineeEVR08rC.png
   Can transport: crates, strongboxes
   Capacity: 16 slots

 

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1 hour ago, AbdellahPlays said:

how to rank up fast?

There is no way to rank up fast.
Get the trucker as your main job
Mechanic as the side
Invest 20k into a boat n go fishing for 5k
Fish untill you're big rank so you can start trucking with big trucks
 

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