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inner city distribution

Using pak128-146 vs 102.2 and working on inner city distribution to small end users involving smaller quantities. (working in freemode so profit is not the aim, but rather to see what I can build). Question is , will trucks pickup multi goods at a central location and distribute to multi end users?
Thank you for you help.

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Reply #1 –
What do you mean with "multi goods"? If you mean all types of goods then then answer is no. Trucks can only pickup one category of goods. A category of good consists of several types of goods. Category "Bulk good" has "Sand", "Coal" and "Iron ore" for example.
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My thought was goods like books(crates), furniture(crates) canned food
Crates or pallets) from one central point (a trucking co warehouse) and delivered to book store,furniture and then to grocery store all as one delivery before returning.

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I've had them pick up two kinds of goods and deliver to the same place before now. Not sure what will happen with different destinations. It will be some kind of "ring" route, trying to deliver to every destination? I would say they tend to pick up all of one type until it is gone, and only then the next type, so I have my doubts how often you will see it happen.

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Reply #4 –
It's hard to tell what exactly you mean by the both "multi", but I'll hazard a guess and say "yes". After all, there is 50/50 chance of getting it right ;D

Joking aside. If you have one source of say, computers, and lots of computer stores, then yes, you can do that.

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Re Multi, it's a yes:

On a collaborative game a while back, I set up a circular "inter-modal" freight railway around the entire map, with fast trains for fluids, bulk, planked, and crated goods moving between generic yards in the middle of no-where, and I then connected each yard into its local area freight network. It worked perfectly, the bulk train moved a mix of coal or sand or iron ore, depending on what space it had remaining in its wagons and what was waiting at the next station it arrived at.

The only thing I wonder about, however, is whether a train wagon (of which there were say 10) had to be itself either coal OR sand (can't but 2 in one wagon in real life!), and whether this would extend to a single road vehicle. But I suspect not (in either case) from what Daistation says.

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The only thing I wonder about, however, is whether a train wagon (of which there were say 10) had to be itself either coal OR sand (can't but 2 in one wagon in real life!), and whether this would extend to a single road vehicle. But I suspect not (in either case) from what Daistation says.
I've definitely had trucks delivering 8T steel and 4T of planks. I guess it's not different for rail wagons.

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Thanks all.  Guess I will build a trial system and see what happens.

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Reply #8 –
Backup and try - my usual plan - I approve ;D

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Quick test observation. The truck at truck warehouse with multiply stops on schedule wants to load as much as possible for stop one so this system only works if the quantity of goods at warehouse is small then truck will load multi goods ( computers,books,canned food ) and make deliveries as scheduled. Also doesnot work if schedule deliveries includes two computer stores or book stores, again truck loads all for first stop. This also seems to work for additional pickup and deliveries along the way, thus allowing one truck in the city to make a chain of pickups and deliveries all day long.