#TruckAtHome was an event held by SCS Software through the World of Trucks platform, covering both American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2. The event started on March 30, 2020 and ended on April 8, 2020. The event was in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Background[]
The COVID-19 pandemic first hit China in December 2019, and spread to the rest of the world in the months afterwards. As a result, many countries entered a "lockdown" by March 2020, including the Czech Republic, the home country of the developer SCS Software.
To encourage people stay at home, avoid unnecessary social contact and minimize the chance of contacting the disease, SCS officially launched the event through a blog post on 30 March 2020.
On 8 April 2020, SCS announced the conclusion of the event with a blog post.
Prerequisites[]
- A copy of Euro Truck Simulator 2 or American Truck Simulator.
- A profile in either of the above game, connected to World of Trucks.
- No DLCs necessary.
Rules[]
- Take any job through External Contracts (company trailer provided) or External Market (if you used your own trailer).
- Personal Goal: Complete jobs with planned route length sum up to 2,500 km (circa 1,600 miles) or more. Using the planned length as the standard means taking detours does not increase one'a mileage.
- Community Goal: Complete jobs with planned route length sum up to 20,000,000 km (circa 12,500,000 miles) or more.
Rewards[]
- Truckers completing their personal goal receive:
- A World of Trucks Achievement.
- A new Steam inventory item, that was released alongside with the release of version 1.37 for both games. That happens to be a hanging Home Trucker Insignia for their truck's cabin.
- For every 20,000,000 km milestone completed by the truckers' community, SCS pledges to offer a special Steam key in a "special social media giveaway campaign".
A sample from SCS showing a Volvo FH16 truck bearing the "#TruckAtHome" paint job
Additional Activities[]
Truckers may download two Steam Workshop Mods developed by SCS, which enable the #TruckAtHome paint jobs in ETS2 and ATS respectively: