Ageing & renewal

Why old vehicles cost you customers.

Every kind of vehicle has a working life. Past it the vehicle is old: customers notice, and the stations it loads at lose rating.

• A vehicle loses 7% of its price in value every year, down to 15%. That value is what you get when you sell it.
• A brand-new vehicle, in the first tenth of its life, gives its stations a small bonus instead.
• The news warns you when one of yours gets old.

Renewing

• Press Renew in the vehicle's window to swap it for a new one of the same model.
• You pay the new price minus what the old one is still worth.
• Or tick Renew old vehicles automatically in the Company overview: each month up to 3 vehicles past their working life are renewed, oldest first, as long as the cash you chose to keep is left in the bank.
• Faster models arrive over the years. Selling and buying a newer model is often the better deal: see Eras.
• The arrow button beside Renew replaces it with another model instead: it keeps its orders, cargo and history, and you pay the new price minus what the old one is worth.
• The same window can replace every vehicle on the route - the ones calling at the same stations - in one go, and shows the total first.