How Truck Simulator’s resident radio station became as big as the rigs
April 17, 2020 This feature was originally published in 2019.
Where there are traffic jams, there are radio stations talking about them - crowdsourcing info from unlucky commuters stuck on stagnant roads, and dispersing it to other drivers so they can avoid suffering. These stations mark a fundamental ebb and flow of modern life, reading out the contemporary equivalent of sea tide tables. And they do so not just all over the real world, but in virtual ones too. Specifically, the networks of dual carriageways and service stops that make up the Truck Simulator games.
While Euro and American Truck Simulator are officially single-player experiences, offering urban serenity to the 30,000 people who play them meditatively on Steam, they’re both expanded by a popular multiplayer mod. Using TruckersMP, a subset of those players set up virtual companies together, sharing the roads and, yes, occasionally jamming them. That’s where Truckers.FM station managers Alexander and Joshua Blackman come in.
“We thought it would be a really neat way to communicate with the drivers,” Alexander Blackman tells me.
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