Timber Haul mills, weighing and pay: prices and fines

In Timber Haul you get paid at the mill in three steps: park the timber truck on the weighbridge and choose Weigh / get paid, move every weighed log onto the mill deck with your crane, then choose Weigh / get paid again. Take each kind of timber to a mill that wants it, and keep your truck under the weight limits, to get the full price.

The four mills

There are four places to deliver timber. They are made-up places. You choose one on Map & machines, under Destination.

North Rail Terminal takes everything, but it pays less. It is handy for a mixed load, and it is also the place for the extra challenge in Mire Edge.

You cannot change the mill while a weighed load is waiting to be unloaded. Finish that delivery first.

Timber prices

The game pays for timber by volume, in cubic metres (m³). These are the prices the game uses for each cubic metre. The game does not show this list, but the Cutting choices on the harvester show what each log is worth.

So one cubic metre of pine sawlogs earns more than four cubic metres of energy wood. How each log is sorted is explained on felling and cutting.

Mixed loads

A load can have different kinds of timber. What matters is whether the mill takes all of it:

• The mill takes every log: each log is paid at its own price. Pine and spruce sawlogs together at River Sawmill is fine.
• The mill does not take one or more logs: the whole load is paid at the lowest price in the load. One energy log in a load of sawlogs at River Sawmill makes every sawlog pay like energy wood.

The Roadside pile button only reaches piles that your chosen mill takes, which helps you keep loads clean.

The weighbridge, step by step

1. Pick your mill on Map & machines.
2. Load the truck (and trailer) from the roadside piles.
3. Follow the yellow road guide to the mill. Near the end, the guide says "Park on the bridge, then weigh your load."
4. Stop on the weighbridge and choose Weigh / get paid (E or RB). You see "Weight recorded." and the pay and fine for this load.
5. Unload with your crane: Machine load, grip, Lift clear, Unload pile (it now aims at the mill deck), release. Do this until every weighed log is on the deck.
6. Choose Weigh / get paid again. "Delivery paid!" The money is added.

If you choose Weigh / get paid too early, the game says "Move every weighed log onto this mill's unload pile before getting paid." If the truck is not close enough or still moving, it says "Park the truck on the chosen mill's weighbridge."

Weight limits on the road

Roads have weight limits. The Gross weight on the truck's display is the truck, the trailer and the timber together. The truck alone weighs about 19 t, and the empty trailer adds about 8 t.

If your load is too heavy for the road you are on, the truck will not move, and the message says "This load is too heavy for this road. Leave some timber at the landing." Take some logs off and try again. With the trailer hitched, about 11 t of timber fits under the 38 t limit at the landing. These numbers come from the game's rules.

Axle loads

Each axle of the truck should carry 10 t or less. The display shows Axle loads as the heaviest axle, like "8.2 / 10 t", and turns to a warning when one is over. Timber on the truck's own load bed presses mostly on its rear axles. Timber on the trailer is spread over four trailer axles.

In practice, more than about 8 t on the truck's own bed makes its rear axles too heavy. Put the rest on the trailer.

Overweight fines

When you weigh, the mill checks two things: the gross weight against the road limit at the mill, and the heaviest axle against 10 t. The bigger of the two overloads counts.

• You pay a fine of $150 for each tonne over the limit. Half a tonne over costs $75.
• The timber over the limit is not paid.

The delivery note shows the pay and the fine, like "Pay: … · Fine: …". A fine also costs you the Tidy loads medal for that chapter (see the three forests).

Delivery problems and fixes

See also

• Felling and cutting: cut more sawlogs for better pay.
• Winter, thaw and money: road bans and other costs.
• Advanced tips: plan full loads without fines.
• Play Timber Haul and make your first delivery.

• About Timber Haul
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