Starting policies and strategy cards
Your free start policy and up to two purchased strategies permanently change the fleet, but the same names can have different values.
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What you get at the start and later
Two sources of lasting effects accompany the current run.
| Source | Maintenance | Border | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting policy | Free with the selected starting offer | Exactly a suitable directive | From day 1 |
| Strategy card | Evening card choice, 100 CR | At most two different strategies | From the next day until the end of the run |
In the current daily routine, you buy card improvements. An older general shopping cart is not an additional regular purchase step, so the card prices and card terms apply.
Starting guidelines and strategy cards are applied together. “Digital handover”, “early shift”, “express partner” and “wholesale contract” occur in both systems, but have different values.
All 14 possible starting guidelines
These guidelines are included in the pools of the ten current starting sets.
| Directive 2003/EC | Effect from start | Possible start sets |
|---|---|---|
| Balanced portfolio | Remuneration for normal orders, express and large loads +5% each; service times +5% | Allrounder · Profit Hunters |
| Standardised procedures | Service hours −12%; compensation for normal orders −15% | Allrounder · Lastesel · Minimalist |
| Local customers | Remuneration for normal orders +12 %; express remuneration -10 % | Allrounder · Route planner |
| Express safety net | Travel costs −50 %; penalty for expired express orders −40 % | Blitzkurier |
| Economical routines | Travel costs −12%; travel times +5% | Fleet builder · Sparfuchs |
| Large order logistics | Service times of large orders −18%; remuneration of large orders −5% | Cargo |
| Wholesale contracts | Remuneration for large contracts +12 % | Lastesel · Profit hunter |
| Efficient fleet management | Travel costs −8%, travel times −4%; daily +20 CR per vehicle | Minimalist · Route planner · Sparfuchs |
| Digital handover | 8 minutes less service time per stop; travel costs −35% | Minimalist · Sparfuch · Clean desk |
| Quick service | Service hours −25%; travel costs +10% | Timeliness professional |
| Goodwill scheme | In case of mild delay +10 percentage points payout share | Timeliness professional |
| Early shift | Start of day 20 minutes earlier; daily +30 CR per vehicle | Timeliness professional |
| Fuel Contract | Travel costs of combustion engines −8% | Route planners |
| Express partner | Express compensation +10 % | Profiteers |
In principle, the effects apply to the fleet, with the exception of fuel contracts only affecting combustion engines, and the daily additional costs of a start-up directive apply to each vehicle concerned, even if it remains in the depot.
All 18 active strategy cards
Each strategy costs 100 CR and is available for Day 2 at the earliest. special logistics requires a suitable capability in the fleet beforehand.
| Strategy | Advantage | Disadvantage | When it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subcontracting network | Open normal standard orders are submitted without penalty. | For submitted orders there is no revenue and no own delivery. | Helps against residues; express and critical orders continue to self-serve. |
| Urgent | Travel times −15% | Travel costs +20 % | For tight deadlines; do not confuse with shorter service times. |
| Maximum load | Capacity +2 for the fleet | Service hours +20% | For many orders per tour; vehicle rules for size and load remain valid. |
| Express partner | Express compensation +25 % | Standard remuneration −10% | For a high express share; Standard here designates the order type. |
| Wholesale contracts | Remuneration for large contracts +25 % | Service times of large orders +20% | For trucks and large loads; small orders do not receive this bonus. |
| Risk exposure | Remuneration of all contracts +15 % | Penalties +50% | For reliable on-time plans with little open backlog. |
| Early shift | Start of day 30 minutes earlier | Per vehicle used +20 CR operational costs | For long tours; deadlines and end of day are not postponed. |
| Land supply | Rural remuneration +25 % | Remuneration in the residential and commercial area −10 % | For bundled country tours; industry does not belong to the urban malus. |
| Efficiency fleet | Travel costs -20% | Capacity −1 | For short, economical tours when the lost capacity is portable. |
| Digital handover | Service hours −16% | Per vehicle used +12 CR operational costs | For tours with many stops; travel times remain unchanged. |
| Fleet pool | Ownership factor of unused vehicles decreases from 4 to 1. | Per vehicle used +12 CR operational costs | For a larger fleet with vehicles that remain in the depot on individual days. |
| Grouping of fleets | Travel costs of a tour in only one type of area −25% | Travel costs of a tour with several types of territory +10 % | Bundle stops by area type; it does not mean a single block. |
| Security protocol | Waiting or repair delays in the event of traffic jams, breakdown and closed receiver −30 % | Service hours +10 % | For trouble-prone days; a roadblock is not lifted. |
| Reliable standard | Standard remuneration +20 % | Express compensation - 15% | For many standard orders, even if some of them are already critical. |
| Specialist logistics | Remuneration for refrigerated or fragile contracts +30 % | Service times of such orders +20% | Only offered if the fleet has refrigerated transport or fragile security. |
| Just-in-time contract | Remuneration of new contracts +20 % | Remuneration of orders taken over from the previous day −20% | For a fleet that processes its daily orders reliably. |
| Freight exchange | 2 additional new orders per day | Remuneration of all orders −10% | For free capacity; additional demand is not free compensation. |
| Breakdown funds | Repair and mobilization costs of roadside assistance −30 % | Each vehicle costs an additional 8 CR every day, even unused. | For repairs or a reserve in the depot; additional travel costs are not discounted. |
A strategy affects current and later purchased vehicles. You do not need your own strategy purchase per vehicle. Loading rules and special requirements do not disappear.
Before the second purchase, consider which later specialization you exclude.
Can I stack two identical strategies?
No. An already active strategy is not reactivated.
Can I exchange a strategy for a new one?
After two purchased strategies, the strategy choice is exhausted.
Does special logistics require both refrigeration and fragile security?
No. At least one of these skills in the fleet is sufficient for the offer, and the compensation bonus then applies to the corresponding special orders.
How effects work together
Percentages are usually combined as factors, and time and cost effects apply only to their designated part.
For example, express partners: the start-up directive gives +10 % express compensation, the strategy of the same name gives an additional +25 %. Together, the factor 1.10 × 1.25 = 1.375, i.e. +37.5 % before other effects.
Example of travel costs: economical routines with −12% and efficiency fleet with −20% result in 0.88 × 0.80 = 0.704 of the previous travel costs, which is 29.6% less, not 32%.
Large express orders can receive both an express and a large order bonus; a refrigerated or fragile order receives the special logistics bonus once; neither requirement doubles it.
- Rapid speed reduces travel time; digital handover reduces service time at the stop.
- Early shift creates additional time before 8:00 a.m. It does not extend the evening and does not postpone the order period.
- Fleet bundling compares area types of stops. Two residential area blocks are the same type; residential area and industry make a mixed tour.
- Fleet pool saves especially on unused vehicles, but increases the operational costs of the actually moving vehicles.
- Breakdown fund reduces repair and mobilization, not the extra mileage of a rescue and not the joint cost premium for repeated paid responses.
Subcontractor network and clean days
Delivery can prevent residues, but does not replace own delivery.
At the start of delivery, subcontractor network submits unassigned normal standard orders. Even at the day billing, open normal standard orders can be concluded in this way. They bring 0 CR proceeds, do not cause an open order penalty and are not counted as own deliveries.
Express orders and critical standard orders are excluded from this rule, which still need their own viable plan.
A submitted order can contribute to a clean end of the day because it is done, but for destinations with own delivery volume or on time deliveries, the submission does not help.
Can I ignore all express orders with subcontractor network?
No. The strategy concerns only normal standard orders.
Is it delivered immediately?
No. Duty settles the open order without any proceeds, but does not increase your own delivery volume.
If an older guide shows other rules
Older lists can show content that is not regularly offered today.
Double shift, outdoor parking, reserve fleet, express focus, extended shift and deadline rescue are not part of the current active map catalog.
Even earlier shop prices, shopping cart rules or a separate shopping phase after planning do not replace the current evening card choice.
Game version: October 6, 2026. Content and balance may change during development.