Owner Operator Series | Ep1 | Realistic Playthrough | American Truck Simulator

Been driving for about 15 years now and the fact that this exists as a game people play for entertainment is killing me lmfaooo Keep on trucking!

I've seriously been waiting since day 1 release for someone to go full realism on the sim. As a truck driver myself there is nothing worse than some of these 150mph no damage no fine streamers and videos

Just started using this economy mod myself and it transforms the game. Been having to watch my fuel mileage, tracking my expenses and looking for good rates for loads. This is how the game should be played

Modding ATS for realism led me to uncover a passion for trucks I had buried. My dad was a trucker. He did everything, and was like Hank Snow. He’s been everywhere xD he always told me to stay away from trucking but I love these machines. I am getting my CDL currently and working toward buying myself a RNG lowboy and truck to tug equipment around. I love trucking. I love the trucks, the sounds, the people, the sights and smells, the long days, the hard work, the radio and the excitement to get home. I have worked in trucking or trucking adjacent industries my entire adult life and am so excited to finally be licensed. I have driven all types of heavy equipment for many many hours but there is nothing like floating up through 13-18 gears, the sound of downshifts and Jake brakes,UHG. I love this shit

CF Trucker John here 👋 I'm so glad you're starting this series and going full hardcore on it ! Hype hype ! I'll be following every episode and starting my own owner operator profile, using the same mods. Let's see if we can make it to level 9 😁 Let's gooooo

Glad I found the channel just in time for the first episode of the series. This promises to be a lot of good YT fun! Watching you park those doubles on Twitch was way beyond my pay grade.

Can’t wait for more of this!! Hardly anyone is doing realism to this level and I’m beyond excited

This is excellent. Love Start from beginning streams. Hope to learn more about effective backing techniques.

Love the RP stuff Mike! Great idea with this series.

Glad you're restarting this series! I also restarted my playthrough once the used trucks became official. As far as this mega hardcore mode, I'll just catch it here and on Twitch. You forgot to explain "kicking the tires!" Good sounds like thunk, bad sounds like thonk. haha. Keep on keepin on!

I’ve decided to start one alongside you so we’re in this for the long haul👊🏾‼️🔥

I'm ready for this series to get huge. I will be watching every vid and livestream.

Just found your channel. Super excited to start watching this series and your progress!

Everything sounds great with the plan can't wait to see what happens next

Love the GDC logistics mod, cant wait for this ones full release!

Loving this series already. Please keep uploading progress to YT cos timezone differences mean live streams don't work for me. Happy truckin.

Homeboy really took on 2 companies to run, 1 in real life and 1 in virtual reality

So you don't end up in the same predicament, start running a cloud backup program (Dropbox/one drive etc) and have it pointed directly to the directory with your save games. Don't want you investing ages grinding to your lvl 10 or just make it across that milestone to lose it all again due to pc issues. Keep that puppy backed up. Looking forward to this series Mike!

As a former semi company driver and a flight sim enthusiast... This hits hard some kind of 'Uncanny Valley' to me: It is like flight-sim level of realism, but they are trucks. It is like, my old work, but in a simulation. It's both weird and fun to watch! Count me in! You've got a new subscriber!

Very good introduction...I like the idea of a owner operator profile series. I just joined your "party". I hope to be able to stick around. Thank you for this. You inspire me to do better with the sim...Like Microsoft used to say: "It's not a game, it's a simulator".