Yes sure Your points are valid... and I agree, but it seems we do stuff differently, various parts in Europecolossal404 wrote:I work as a truck driver IRL, so I say why not:ISA wrote:I saw a MAN truck with trailer and it hauled 15t of mail (amount what can be hauled without a trailer). Then there was a thought why 15t if it can be almost double like 25+t maybe.
The mail as cargo is lighter compared to most other things, since it's unarranged, mostly envelopes and paper boxes, and those bags aren't stackable, you must have one "layer" of bags if you want the adress to get them in perfect conditionThis is why mail and goods are somewhat a special cargo, since it isn't a homogene cargo, they have various size and weight, and mostly individual destinations (which is partly available in OTTD with cargodist), and I think this is the reason why one crate of goods weight half ton. I'd prefer to call that unit "pallet", that would be closer to this weight unit (althought it would be still a heavy one, but I met a few heavier), but that's none of my business
And the main reason of why not is by I simply set one capacity for the vehicle and by that old way I coded it (GRFmaker) I can't change the capacity with refitting, OTTD doubles it for goods and mail
I myself work in an airport... time to time I am also needed in the goods terminal (read: "Mail" - DHL, TNT, etc). As You pointed out there are envelopes and paper boxes (also wood, plastic), but in here it not seems to be a problem. As there are special kind of metal cage crates (I think sorted by destination) what are fully load with different size of boxes (by size - first bigger below, smaller above). When its full its loaded into the trucks trailer (trailers are not always 100% full of these of crates, but You may get the point).
My two words... what is going also a bit off topic.
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