Features:
•Improved lighting ✔
•Improved HDR ✔
•Improved shadows ✔
•Improved saturation ✔
•Improved sharpen of the image ✔
•Improved visual details ✔
•Improved clarity ✔
•Improved skybox lighting ✔
•More readable dashboards ✔

Instruction and presets in link

Credits:
Lionv8

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Features:

✔ Compatible To Work With ATS Game Version 1.61.
✔ 10 realistic and unique types of Rain & Thunder intensities.
✔ Realistic Thunderstorm probability.
✔ More raindrops on windshield.
✔ Realistic textures of raindrops on windshield.
✔ Realistic textures of rain.
✔ Realistic Rain probabilities respecting geographical locations.
✔ Realistic Rain & Thunder intensities for summer weather patterns in United States.
✔ Realistic Rain & Thunder intensities for skybox configuration.
✔ Realistic slipperiness of roads.
✔ Realistic wind speed.
✔ Realistic simulation of different types of precipitation and thunderstorms: light/moderate/heavy rain, light/heavy showers, light/moderate/severe thunderstorm.
✔ Realistic size of raindrops.
✔ Realistic physics of raindrops.
✔ Realistic textures of car splash.
✔ Realistic mist.
✔ Minimize effect of rain streaks.

WARNING: This mod is NOT compatible with Graphics mods, Weather mods, Rain mods and Seasons Grimes mods.

Recommended Rain Probability: 21%

Please Do not Re-upload in any other hosting site/s keep the original download link

Rain and thunderstorm probabilities are based on real, accurate data and adjust based on ongoing climate change for certain regions.

Sources used for data:
https://www.ecmwf.int
https://www.noaa.gov
https://en.climate-data.org
https://en.wikipedia.org
https://climatereanalyzer.org
https://www.ogimet.com/home.phtml.en
https://meteologix.com

Data from: June-August (2000-2026).

Credits:
Lionv8

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Realistic Cargo Weight 2x
ENGLISH
Tired of powerful engines and 18-speed transmissions feeling unnecessary with most vanilla loads?
Realistic Cargo Weight 2x doubles the original cargo mass values while preserving the balance between light and heavy cargo. It does NOT set every load to the same weight: a light cargo remains relatively light, while an already-heavy cargo becomes a serious hauling challenge.
World of Trucks Compatible
Tested and working with World of Trucks contracts in both configurations:

External Contracts – without your own trailerExternal Market – with your own trailer
100-tonne limit: Non-Special Transport loads are limited to a maximum of 100,000 kg for World of Trucks compatibility. In my ATS External Contracts test, the log stacker was accepted at 100,000 kg and rejected at 100,001 kg. Loads below the cap retain the original 2x mass values. Special Transport loads retain the full 2x weight, even above 100 tonnes, because they are not World of Trucks contracts. The same definitions also apply to offline jobs. Loads made up of whole units may finish below the cap.
Features

2x original cargo mass values, with the 100-tonne exception described abovePreserves the original difference between light and heavy cargoOriginal cargo volume is not changedBase-game cargo and trailer definitions coveredCargo DLC definitions covered: Heavy Cargo, Special Transport/Oversize, Farm Machinery, Forest Machinery, JCB Equipment, Krone Agriculture and Volvo Construction EquipmentLode King & Prestige trailer definitions coveredMakes engine power, gearing and 18-speed transmissions meaningful on heavy jobsExtremely heavy vanilla loads can become true heavy-haul challenges
Compatibility
Built and tested for American Truck Simulator 1.60.x and 1.61.x.
Mods that alter the same cargo mass or trailer definition files can override these values. If needed, place Realistic Cargo Weight 2x above other cargo-weight mods in the Mod Manager load order.
This mod changes cargo weight-related definitions. It does not intentionally rebalance prices, XP or the economy.
Note – 1.61 Official release:
Added support for the three new ATS 1.61 cargoes: Truss, Seed Containers and Trailers. These cargoes now receive the mod’s 2x weight adjustment.
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My World of Trucks profile

Credits:
LKN194

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Put above any weather mod
Mod that emulates real life day and night duration (affects sunrises and sunsets time depending on the latitude you are ingame and with timezones enabled longitude also comes into action)
This mod doesn’t affect the time progression in game!
Can be used in convoy as an optional mod.
If you want timezones to match the effect of this mod you can use my other mod that synergises and also updates the fuel prices Real life fuel prices
Daily updates to make sure it matches the real life day!
Current date: 09/17/2026
ETS version
Report me any issues you find with the mod (Portuguese and English support only)
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https://twitch.tv/kworey
https://discord.gg/kworey

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kworey

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Put in the top of the mod list
Mod that updates the fuel prices of every state. This mod doesn’t change any other economy in game.
Compatibility
Base game + all DLC’sCoast to Coast and AlaskaProMods Canada, CanaMania, Discover North America, Western Canada ExpansionReforma
Key Features
All prices are American Dollar per gallon (and in parentheses the official currency price of the country per official unit of measurement).Fuel price totems ingame also reflect the latest prices! (base game + all DLC’s only)Can be used in convoy as an optional mod.It also contains an update to Mexico and Canada state codes to match real life.The timezones in every state are set according to real life and work in synergy with my other mod Real life day and night durationIf you use a different currency than the game default you can also use my Real life currency exchange rate so the prices of other currencies reflect real life.
Fuel price list usually reflect the average price of every monday. Updates should start between monday and tuesday when the sources are updated for the week (small updates can occur for late sources updates in the following days).
Base game + all DLC’s
Arizona – $6.21
Arkansas – $5.92
California – $8.15
Colorado – $5.87
Idaho – $6.08
Illinois – $6.20
Iowa – $6.06
Kansas – $5.92
Louisiana – $5.85
Missouri – $5.91
Montana – $5.98
Nebraska – $5.96
Nevada – $6.53
New Mexico – $6.13
Oklahoma – $5.84
Oregon – $6.63
South Dakota – $5.88
Texas – $5.84
Utah – $5.95
Washington – $7.22
Wyoming – $5.83
Coast to Coast + Alaska
Alabama – $5.97
Alaska – $6.38
Connecticut – $6.18
Delaware – $6.13
District of Columbia – $6.16
Florida – $6.31
Georgia – $6.29
Indiana – $6.19
Kentucky – $5.91
Maine – $6.22
Maryland – $6.19
Massachusetts – $6.10
Michigan – $6.15
Minnesota – $6.08
Mississippi – $5.85
North Carolina – $6.03
North Dakota – $5.99
New Hampshire – $6.10
New Jersey – $6.16
New York – $6.17
Ohio – $6.11
Pennsylvania – $6.35
Rhode Island – $6.07
South Carolina – $6.04
Tennessee – $5.95
Vermont – $6.13
Virginia – $6.16
West Virginia – $5.96
Wisconsin – $6.06
ProMods – Canada / CanaMania / Discover North America / Western Canada Expansion
Alberta – $6.31 (231.0¢/L)
British Columbia – $7.83 (286.7¢/L)
Manitoba – $6.65 (243.6¢/L)
New Brunswick – $7.36 (269.7¢/L)
Newfoundland and Labrador – $7.56 (277.0¢/L)
Northwest Territories – $5.84 (213.8¢/L)
Nova Scotia – $7.37 (269.9¢/L)
Nunavut – $5.84 (213.8¢/L)
Ontario – $6.92 (253.5¢/L)
Prince Edward Island – $7.45 (273.0¢/L)
Quebec – $8.06 (295.4¢/L)
Saskatchewan – $6.50 (238.1¢/L)
Yukon – $6.69 (244.9¢/L)
Reforma
Aguascalientes – $6.02 ($27.034/L)
Baja California – $5.84 ($26.209/L)
Baja California Sur – $6.15 ($27.622/L)
Chihuahua – $5.97 ($26.817/L)
Coahuila de Zaragoza – $6.03 ($27.073/L)
Colima – $6.02 ($27.024/L)
Durango – $6.07 ($27.225/L)
Guanajato – $6.03 ($27.063/L)
Jalisco – $6.05 ($27.146/L)
Michoacán de Ocampo – $6.02 ($27.032/L)
Nayarit – $6.10 ($27.363/L)
Nuevo León – $6.03 ($27.060/L)
Querétaro – $6.00 ($26.912/L)
San Luis Potosí – $6.03 ($27.063/L)
Sinaloa – $6.02 ($27.035/L)
Sonora – $6.01 ($26.976/L)
Tamaulipas – $5.90 ($26.473/L)
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave – $6.01 ($26.995/L)
Zacatecas – $6.04 ($27.130/L)
States marked with * are not yet updated for the week
Latest fuel prices: 09/14/2026
Updated: 09/16/2026

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https://twitch.tv/kworey
https://discord.gg/kworey

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kworey

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A major random-events expansion for American Truck Simulator, featuring repaired and modernized legacy content alongside many newly created roadside scenes.

Fungaming Events Expansion enriches the roads of ATS with a larger and more varied collection of believable roadside situations.
Existing content has been carefully audited and repaired for ATS 1.60, while new scenes add modern roadside assistance, recovery, inspection, maintenance and emergency-response activity.

Reworked and tested for American Truck Simulator 1.60.
Audited supplied definitions, scenes, models, materials, textures, vehicle selectors, cutscene tokens and resource references.
Repaired missing models, materials, signs, textures, cutscene references, invalid vehicle looks and obsolete traffic selections.
Corrected invalid event data and restored balanced cutscene, curve and warning-sign distances.
Improved traffic blocking, lane protection and warning layouts where required.
Replaced the obsolete highway-helper selection with the current official SCS Highway Helper.
Updated recovery and parked emergency-vehicle selections for current ATS traffic definitions.
Replaced incompatible vehicle visuals that caused license-plate and model-hookup errors.
Removed obsolete duplicate hookups and invalid legacy model looks.
Repaired temporary-traffic-light roadworks with current ATS semaphore profiles, placement and timing.

Scene-appropriate personnel for breakdown, recovery, police, highway-helper, roadwork and accident scenes.
Workers positioned around their intended vehicles and work areas using varied, believable poses.
Staffed support vehicles where personnel are logically expected.
Current default ATS highway officers used in place of several outdated traffic-officer models.
Selected older characters retained where they still add useful variety and remain correctly positioned.
Rare time-aware unstaffed worksites represent lunch breaks, early mornings and secured sites outside working hours.
Safe 80-metre and 120-metre temporary-traffic-light roadworks restored at a low, balanced frequency.

Roadside traveler assistance.
Lost freight and pipe-spill response.
Mobile truck repair.
Commercial-vehicle roadside inspection.
Overturned-trailer response.
Night lane maintenance.
Heavy-truck recovery operation.
Overheated-vehicle assistance.
Staffed arrow-board roadwork.
Multi-vehicle chain collision.
Staffed truck tire-service response.
Hazardous-cargo leak response with emergency protection.
Staffed roadside infrastructure repair.
Protected loose-load and building-material cleanup.
Disabled heavy-haul support with heavy recovery.
Roadside driver medical assistance.
Properly staged and staffed vehicle recovery.
Small evening and nighttime emergency repair.

Update for 1.61

Credits:
Fungaming

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Version 4.01.22
Updated billboards
Updated flags
Bugfixes

This mod has:
Deliverable real companies
Real gas station brands
Realistic HD-trailerskins
Real fastfood restaurants
Realistic up to date billboards
Real shops
Real hotel & motels names
Airplane liveries
Company vans
Roadservice signs
Various small signs, containers and vehicles

Works with:
ATS version 1.61
DX11 & OpenGL
All DLC’s fully supported, not all are needed to run the mod.
Convoy
Most common used map mods
Most common traffic-skin mods

Credits:
MLH82

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## A Note from the Developer##
This project is dedicated to the glory of God. Every mile driven and every line of code written is an expression of gratitude for the journey. May this mod bring a little more order, peace, and grace to the virtual highways we all travel.
— Built by a driver, for drivers.
**Full Release Log:** https://github.com/insanity35/Smart-Gates-Parking-and-Safety-Buffers
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🛑 The Problem: “Gate Lag” & Sterile Truck Stop/Yards
For long-haul truckers across American Truck Simulator, immersion is everything. Nothing shatters the flow of a meticulous delivery faster than “gate lag”—that frustrating hitch at the yard threshold where you wait for a sluggish barrier to crawl open while your multi-ton rig idles out. Couple that with sterile, ghost-town truck stops, parking lots and getting flagged down at 60% of weigh stations. With that long-haul pacing takes a heavy hit.
✅ The Solution: SGSB
Smart Gates, Dynamic Parking and Safety Buffers (SGSB) is an environmental and traffic modification for American Truck Simulator designed to enhance the realism of rest stops, parking lots, loading zones, and world gate interactions.
🚦Smart Gate & Infrastructure Overhaul
*Extended Trigger Ranges: Increased activation distances (125m for panoramas, custom industrial ranges) so gates open smoothly as you roll up, protecting your momentum.
*Collider Fixes: Repointed broken base-game geometry files to proper colliders so multi-axle setups and heavy loads pass through without clipping.
*Streamlined Logic: Purged legacy references, entirely focusing on automated gate routines, security checkpoints, and border crossings across all map DLCs.
🚛 Advanced Dynamic Parking System
Immerse yourself in a living roadside ecosystem. Parking lot, Rest stops and yards/drop off parked vehicle code has been completely rewritten. Everything will feel more realistic. As in empty truck stops with two trucks at night or parking lots with one car in it are gone. SGSB introduces a massive expansion across 85 granular industrial, commercial, and rural sectors:
*Context-Aware Spawning: Lots reflect their local environment—populating grain co-ops with farm pickups and classic sedans, marine ramps with trailer-towing haulers, and oilfields with heavy-duty service rigs.
*Hybrid Temporal Scheduling: Banishes the “mass-extinction” pop-in effect. Personal vehicles utilize controlled dawn and dusk bleed-over, while commercial and industrial fleets use strict deterministic shift separation.
*Operational Graveyard Shifts: Municipal fleets—including street sweepers and garbage trucks—truly own the overnight hours before clearing out for daytime traffic.
*Optimized VRAM Performance: Industrial yards and truck stops are densely populated without frame-rate hits, leveraging forced low-poly background rendering (low_poly_only: true).
*Precise Physical Alignment: Unattached yard trailers and heavy wreckers utilize strict rear_align: true protocols, ensuring assets lock securely onto pads without floating.
⚖️ Weigh Station Flow Control
*Scale house check probabilities have been dropped from the base-game default (60%) down to a realistic 20% check frequency for smooth, uninterrupted long-haul pacing.
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⚠️ Important Developer Notices & Load Order
**Recommended Load Order**
To ensure the custom safety buffer parameters take priority over world geometry data, organize your Mod Manager as follows:
**— TOP —**
1. Background Maps
2. Smart Gates, Parking and Safety Buffers (SGSB) *(Notice: Needs to be ABOVE SoundFixes to keep hookups from being erased)*
3. SoundFixes
4. Global Traffic & AI Density Mods
5. Map Expansion Mods (ProMods, Reforma, etc.)
**— BOTTOM —**
**❌Prefab Limitations (The “Hardcoded” Gates):**
I cannot change values on prefab/hardcoded gates unless someone can teach me the ATS Map Editor. Ex:
* Army Gate next to O’Hare Airport (IL)
* Union Pacific Gate Albuquerque
* DOW Gate (IL)
* Newmont (Houma, Louisiana)
*Note: Toll booths are part of tollgate.sii and gate_trigger.sii. If I edit these, the gates fail to open. Toll booths currently remain stock.*
**Conflict Notice:** This is a standalone global logic override. It will conflict with other mods that attempt to modify the same global gate animation or trigger definitions (an…

Credits:
Meanshadows35

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Version 1.0.4 – American Truck Simulator driver westernization mod
Newer Additional Female Drivers mod found here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3799245288
Release notes:
1.0.4
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Name tweaks, fixed a lot of duplicates. I just published another mod, a variation on this one. The new mod keeps all the changes that this one makes, but it also adds 250 new female drivers. A lot of people seem to want that. This one won’t be abandoned because I know there are people who don’t need/want more drivers, so I’ll keep developing them in parallel.
1.0.3
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About a hundred new replacement photos, mostly men.
1.0.2
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Fixed typo in names (Hanna to Hannah)
First 70 male avatars are done. By far the hardest part is finding a source for AI headshots that either A) don’t all look the same or B) don’t look like aliens
1.0.1
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Real person “Iwona B.” name restored
Novelty names (Harry P., Tina T., Arnold S.) removed – they are fun but immersion-breaking
Some AI faces were changed:
Like many of you, the ridiculous supermodel photos on some other mods is more immersion-breaking than the bad pictures. The original image-generation process
I used on the photos was OK, but the suggestion of varying ages, weathered faces, work clothes, etc, was a good one.
Name change across all locales:
Initially the renaming only applied to the GB and US English locales, but I got to thinking, even if you speak Mongolian, if you’re playing American Truck
Simulator and hiring American drivers, you should expect them to have American names.
I’ve started on the men, but their photos are even worse and I’m having to generate a ton of them.
1.0.0
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Initial release
It seems that when SCS was creating American Truck Simulator, that they just ported the names and photos for the AI drivers straight from European Truck Simulator. A lot of the names and faces are distinctly eastern European. While there’s nothing wrong with that, in my opinion the immersion suffers when you’re trying to hire American drivers.
This mod replaces the names of most of the drivers; Americanizes them, if you will. I didn’t just slam random American names into the game, I tried to keep the feel and distribution of names consistent (Ondrej became Andrew, Petr to Peter, for example).
This also replaces a number of the female avatar photos. Some were photos that looked very foreign, some were just bad photos. All the replacement pictures are AI generated and I kept the ethnic/racial distribution consistent with the base game. I’ll eventually do this for the males too, but there are fewer females so I started there.
I’m given to understand that some of the drivers in the base game are actually real people, with names and photos of beta testers, staffers, youtube personalities, etc. I respect this and think it’s pretty cool, but I don’t know who was who, and I didn’t put effort into preserving those entries. Leave a comment if someone was replaced who should not have been, and I’ll look at it for the next version/update.

Credits:
The_Banana_Man

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This mod tries to make the newly introduced damage system (v1.49) more realistic.
To achieve this, almost all damage and wear variables have been changed to make the truck and trailer parts wear like real parts. A detailed explanation of these changes can be found in this discussion thread.
The TLDR of the damage changes are:

Trucks will have to be restored earlier (~1,600,000mi) (SCS default: 2,640,000mi).Engine and transmission will show problems later (800,000mi and 500,000mi) (SCS default: 466,000mi).Introduced retreading of tires through wheel repair. Tires must now be retreaded after every 250,000mi on the truck and 400,000mi on the trailer.Wheels wear much slower and only need to be replaced after ~750,000mi (SCS default: 18,650mi)Damage repair prices reflect the real average repair and maintenance costs of a semi truck and also include the cost of insurance.Introduced maintenance intervals, with service required every 50,000mi. Part damage is used to indicate that a service visit is required.
In addition, the thresholds for damaged vehicle usage warnings and fines have been changed to reflect the changes in wear accumulation. Warnings are issued when any part has more than 15% of total damage (wear + damage) and indicate that the player should visit a repair shop. Fines for core parts are issued when any of them have 50% of total damage, and for wheels when they exceed 60%. The fine has been reduced from $500 to $300.
The coinsurance system has also undergone a major overhaul. The deductible is now gone and the percentage the player has to pay has increased significantly. Repairs will now be more expensive, especially after accidents. The player’s percentage now starts at 90% and can be reduced to 70%.

When adding this mod to an existing savegame, some of the changes will not take effect until the next in-game day.
My recommendation for playing with this mod is to drive until the check engine light comes on, and the visit service message appears on your dashboard. At this point, go to your favorite repair shop and repair all parts of the truck and trailer except the wheels. For wheels, you want to repair them when wear + damage is approaching 60%. Replace any parts that have 15% or more wear.
Before using this mod, I strongly recommend that you read my guide on how the damage system works in the game, and if you are interested in the details that this mod changes, then you should also read the linked discussion thread.
Compatibility with other mods:

This mod is not compatible with mods that also modify damage data. If you are using a real economy or similar mod, chances are that it changes the police or bank data. If this is the case, you will need to decide which values you want to have in your game and order the mods accordingly.
While creating this mod, I tried to research all the details as best as I could, but if you have a better insight into the numbers I used and feel that they do not reflect reality as well as they could, then please leave a comment, so I can make this mod as realistic as possible.
Please keep in mind that the newly introduced damage system (v1.49) may change significantly in the future. Therefore, it may take some time to update this mod when new updates for the game are released, or it may even become obsolete.

Created by ØnYx.

Credits:
ØnYx

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