Your first hour

You sign in, pick how your company starts and where, and your first vehicle is on the road within two minutes. This page follows that hour.

Pick a start

You pick one of three starts. Each is worth about the same. A start is taken once and cannot be changed later.

Start	You get	Your first minutes
Farmer	€38,000, a farm with 6.0 t of grain and a pickup loaded with 2.0 t	The pickup leaves at once and sells its load at the town market. The farm keeps growing.
Dispatcher	€36,000, a small depot as your yard, 2 pickups and the node dispatch desk	One pickup is under way with freight of a freight job. You send the other one to a job or a rush order.
Founder	€82,000 and nothing else	You build your first site and buy your first vehicle yourself. Your first producing site starts with 6.0 t of its good.

The farmer is the gentle start: it shows the whole loop without a decision. The dispatcher earns from jobs and owns no site that produces. The founder is for players who know what they want to build.

Pick a town

You can start in any of the 194 towns with a market. The start panel lists up to 3 towns near you, none further away than 150 km. It is a hint. Click any town on the map to pick it.

For a farmer each town states the grain price it pays a new company. For a dispatcher it states the first freight job of the day.

Your town sets your home region. You can build in every region later.

Pick a spot (farmer)

A farmer picks one of up to 3 spots for the farm. Each spot states its drive to the market, as in "5 min to the market, 3.2 km". The game looks for spots 2 min to 5 min from the market, so your first sale comes fast.

The first sale

The pickup of a farmer starts loaded and leaves when you start. When it arrives, it sells its 2,000 kg of grain at the price of that moment.

In a town of 50,000 inhabitants at its starting stock that sale pays €324, and the price drops from €0.163/kg to €0.161/kg. Your load moved the market. Markets and prices explains how.

The vehicle then drives back, loads again and repeats its route on its own.

A floor under your first week

For your first 7 days a town pays you at least 80% of the base price of a good, for the first 30 t you sell per day. A full town cannot ruin your first week. After that you are paid the price of the board like everyone else.

Follow the guide

The guide is a card in the Overview. It names one quest at a time, says how the quest is done and opens the right place with "Show me". Its six quests can be done in any order.

Quest	How	Reward
First sale	Give a vehicle a route that sells a load at a market, or deliver a job.	€500, 2 RP
Rush job	Open the jobs, take a rush order of a town and deliver it.	€800, 3 RP
Second town	Sell a load or deliver a job at a second market.	€1,000, 3 RP
Freight	Open the jobs, take a freight job and deliver its freight.	€1,000, 3 RP
Second vehicle	Buy a second vehicle for one of your sites.	€1,500, 4 RP
First research	Spend research points on your first node of the research tree.	€1,000, 5 RP

The guide pays €5,800 and 20 RP in all. The first node of a branch costs 5 RP to 40 RP, so your first research falls inside this hour.

What to do next

1. Buy a second vehicle. A farm grows 4.0 t per hour. One pickup on a short route moves most of it, a longer route does not. See Vehicles.
2. Sell in a second town. Your first town fills up within days and pays less. The route editor shows what each market pays now.
3. Take a rush order. Every town near your sites posts one per hour. It pays a premium and takes a few minutes. See Jobs and rush orders.
4. Research your first node. Light fleet and Dispatch desk are the cheapest. See the Research tree.
5. Pick a path. Four rows of quests open after your first node: hauler, producer, trader and builder.