Rest Stops

Rest stops are facilities designed to rest in Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator.

Summary

Unless one has the "Fatigue simulation" option disabled, in Euro Truck Simulator 2, rest should be taken every 11 hours, while the rest itself lasts for 9 hours. In American Truck Simulator, you should rest every 14 hours, while you rest for 10 hours.

Usually, the player will start showing signs of fatigue 3 hours before the deadline, when the player begins yawning, and occasionally, the displayer will show alerts such as ''you are getting tired'', the fatigue icon will turn red in the last 10% of the sleep deadline (1 hour and 6 minutes in ETS2 and 1 hour and 24 minutes in ATS), this is when the screen will start dimming each time the player yawns and the text alerts shows up, if the player refuses to sleep or doesn't find a rest stop on time, the deadline will be hit, the player will start getting fines for drowsy driving the moment the deadline is hit, 1 hour after the deadline, the player will start to doze randomly, if the player still refuses to sleep, the dozing duration will get longer and longer with time, which will cause severe accidents.

Almost every city has a garage, a hotel, a motel, and a service shop, all of which have parking spaces for rest. However, a player can only sleep in a garage if they have already bought it beforehand.

While rest stops along country roads and highways have space for the truck with the trailer attached, most rest stops in the cities only have space for the truck itself. Keep that in mind when planning your journeys.

Hotels & Motels

The functional purpose of hotels is to provide rest stops (which are located in the parking lots) that the player can use to rest. Most hotels are in cities and most (although not all) cities have at least one hotel situated in them. However, there are also a few hotels outside city areas. In American Truck Simulator, some hotels are known as motels (short for "motor hotels"), but they essentially serve the same purpose.

Other Rest Stops

In addition, rest stops can be found at the following locations or facilities:

Large truck dealers (cities with these do not have a separate service shop).
Gas Stations along non-urban roads (those in cities do not always provide resting facilities).
Toll Gates
Border crossings (beside the border checkpoints, or, if there is none, simply along the road; the border crossings on minor roads without the checkpoint might not feature a rest stop)
Stein Bruch quarries.
Special designated areas along the road
Ferry ports
Bus Stations