Trivia / American Truck Simulator

• Dummied Out: The Western Star 57X was added into the game in early August 2022, co-inciding with the truck's real-life counterpart being debuted. Both the in-game and real-steel truck come with two different cab lengths (day cab and 72-inch sleeper cab). In the game files, however, one can find a 48-inch sleeper cab configuration (seemingly something that was intended for the real-world model, but was cancelled at the last second), and with just a bit of tinkering, can be made usable. The files have since been deleted, but remain preserved thanks to modding.
• Screwed by the Lawyers:
  • In a blog post prior to the release of the game, SCS showed off a fully completed Volvo VNL and an under-development International Lonestar and Freightliner Cascadia. It turned out however that the respective brands were reluctant to give them the go-ahead to add them into the game. It took over two years for the Volvo VNL to be added to the game, by which point the next generation model had been released in real-life. As of December 2020, SCS made headway not just with the International Lonestar in December 2019 but even surprised us with the Mack Anthem in April 2020, and then the Western Star 49X was released out of nowhere in September 2020, and finally we got the Freightliner Cascadia in December 2020, making for four trucks over the span of a whole year!
  • The welcome signs for Montana and Oklahoma are fictionalised, due to their real versions being copyrighted.
  • Similarly, road signs that would use the Clearview font in reality instead use a custom in-house substitute, because as a developer on the forums explained:
    We enquired... and let's just say that the quote we were given was... expensive and restrictive.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The original plan for the game was to have the map be at a 1:35 scale, in contrast to Europe's 1:20, under the reasoning that the huge size of the United States would require a more aggressive scale compression. Thanks to a mix of the development team growing and a feeling that the original map was a bit too compressed, the 1.5 update rescaled the map◊ to its current 1:20 scale.