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Originally Posted by RandyT0001
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So what type of trucks do gypsy truckers drive?
Semis? I seriously doubt that since it requires more maintenance than simple van trucks on 6 or 10 wheels. Semis imply a larger amount of material to be traded than the few modules seem to support.
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According to the modules. Semi tractor/trailers. In both "Final Watch" and "American Outback".
These are wheezing, smoking, struggling beasts. Small chance these have good rubber tires, and "tires" made of hardwoods or steel welded onto the rims is more likely. Low, low, low top speed due to the vehicles condition, the tires, and that the road is rutted gravel where a highway once was.
These aren't moving everyday, or often. The come up the road and stop to trade. A diesel rig can carry much, much more than the common traders on foot or horseback. Think of them as snowbirds that only come into the northern States and Canada in July, August, and September; then they turn south to spend winters in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, probably Florida, and even into Mexico. Don't forget coast to coast following I 80 or I 10 for that matter.
This encounter is a "plot tool" for how fertilizer, 90w grease, and motor oil from Texas came to be swapped for manufactured ammunition from Idaho. That someone in saskatchewan is making new mason jars in small batches for canning food if only there were some rubber rings.
Use them as the "one who knows" or "Heard a rumor once" to get the PCs moving in a direction and get an adventure or campaign stated.
They can also be the bad guys, as it states that some of these diesel rigs are used as raiding engines.
Think of all the possible trailer combinations you could have. A 5000 gallon tank of diesel fuel for the Baron of white county. A cattle car full of mexican slaves to work the crops in Canada. A trailer filled with books of all kinds like medicine, farming, and repair. A trailer with 3,4, or 6 large methanol stills that arrives in a town or village and for food, spare parts, and women brews alcohol fuel for the village tractors. A trailer full of tools and parts that is a travelling repair or mechanic that gets a village tractor or large truck repaired and running again. Any kind of shop..... a bakery? That can set on a trailer and operate.