🚛 Truck Simulator USA 3D

An American truck simulator in your browser

Truck Simulator USA 3D puts you behind the wheel of a classic American long-nose semi: a big conventional tractor with a long hood, a sleeper cab, twin chrome stacks and a 48-foot trailer hitched to the fifth wheel. Your job is the same as any long-haul trucker's. Pick up a load at the depot, drive it hundreds of kilometres of game highway across the country and park it at the warehouse before the deadline, while keeping the truck fuelled, the driver rested and the cargo in one piece.

It plays straight away in a web browser with no download and no account. If you have played the big trucking simulators on PC, this is a lighter, quicker take on the same idea: a single load per route, real trailer handling and the everyday jobs of a driver, from fuel stops to weigh stations, packed into a drive of a few minutes.

Five loads across the USA

Heartland Haul is the gentle introduction: farm supplies through rolling farm country with grain silos and red barns, one truck stop and one weigh station before the warehouse. Pacific Coast Freight takes a refrigerated trailer full of fresh seafood along ocean cliffs at sunset, with scales, a rest area and a fuel stop on the way. Lone Star Run is a long desert highway with a tanker of diesel behind you, a toll plaza, mesas on the horizon and every kind of stop.

Rocky Mountain Logs is the heaviest job in the game: a flatbed stacked with pine logs on a curvy mountain road with steep grades, where the truck crawls up the hills and wants to run away down them. Midnight Interstate is a night run with fragile electronics, so every bump and every harsh brake costs more. When you just want to drive, Free Roam is an endless highway with optional truck stops, scales and rest areas, and you can switch between day and night.

Life on the road: fuel, fatigue and the scales

Three meters on the left of the screen tell you how the trip is going. The fuel gauge drains as you drive, faster with a heavy load and uphill. Each route starts with only part of a tank, so you have to plan to pull into the truck stop. Run dry and a service truck has to bring emergency fuel, which costs you points and time.

The fatigue meter fills up the longer you drive. When it gets near the top the edges of the screen start to darken, and once it is full you lose points every few seconds until you sleep. Rest areas are where you park the rig and press the sleep button: the screen fades to night, and you wake up with the meter empty again. Real truck drivers have strict limits on how long they can drive before a break, and the game turns that into a simple meter to manage.

Weigh stations are where trucks are checked to make sure they are not overloaded. When the sign says OPEN, every truck has to pull in. Roll slowly onto the steel scale deck, stay under five miles an hour, stop with the whole rig on the scale and wait for the green light and the weight reading. Skip an open weigh station and you get a heavy penalty; go over the scale too fast and the light turns red.

The third meter is your cargo. Bumps, hitting things and harsh driving all damage the load, and a damaged load pays less. Fragile cargo like electronics and fresh seafood takes more damage from every jolt.

Driving a semi with a trailer

A semi truck does not drive like a car. With a loaded trailer it takes a long time to get up to speed and a long way to stop, so look well ahead and brake early for towns, toll plazas and stops. On hills the weight of the load really shows, and on tight mountain bends you have to slow right down, because cornering too fast shifts the load and costs points.

The trailer is hinged at the fifth wheel and follows its own path, cutting inside every corner. When you park in a bay, swing in gently and drive straight for a few metres so the trailer lines up behind the cab: the whole rig, from the front bumper to the back of the trailer, has to finish inside the yellow bay with the nose of the cab by the post. If you overshoot you can reverse, but watch the trailer angle: reverse into too sharp an angle and the rig jackknifes.

Speed limits, towns and toll plazas

Trucks have their own speed limits on the open road, shown on white signs with a TRUCKS plate underneath. In towns the limit drops to 35 miles an hour, and at toll plazas you must slow to 20 so the barrier can open. Keep to the right-hand lane: oncoming traffic stops and waits if your rig swings over the double yellow line. Speeding and driving off the road both cost points.

Score, pay and new trucks

Each delivery is scored out of 100. Points come off for bumps, harsh driving, cargo damage, speeding, skipped stops, running out of fuel, driving tired, going over the scale too fast and arriving after the deadline. Score 88 or more for three stars and 70 or more for two. Every load also pays real game money: the better your score and the less damaged the cargo, the bigger the cheque, minus what you spent on fuel and tolls. Stars unlock new trucks: the streamlined Aero Sleeper, the powerful Heavy Hauler and the silent E-Semi.

Controls

On a computer: W or the up arrow accelerates, S or the down arrow brakes and reverses once you have stopped, and A and D or the left and right arrows steer. F refuels, sleeps or unloads at a stop, C changes the camera between chase, far and cab views, H sounds the air horn, L switches the lights, Q and E work the indicators, R puts the rig back on the road and P pauses. On phones and tablets, touch buttons appear for steering, the pedals and the stop action.

Free, safe and made for every device

Truck Simulator USA 3D runs in any modern browser on computers, Chromebooks, tablets and phones. There are no adverts inside the game, no accounts, no chat and nothing to buy, and your progress is saved only on your device. See the Parents & Safety page for more.

More truck games

Practise backing a trailer into a loading dock in Truck Parking 3D, haul cargo around a city in Big Rig Cargo, or drive passengers between towns in Coach Bus Simulator 3D. Every truck and lorry game is on the Truck Games page.

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