ATS Washington (Pre-Release) - West Coast Haul

[@eddog6666]

29:00 the reason why the bridge is like that is because the deeper part of the Columbia River is on the Oregon side and is used to get ships from the ocean to the port in Portland Oregon

[@ThatGuy.75]

eddog6666 I think your talking a completely different area.

[@framezerogaming8727]

I have been on this bridge, it is huge, It took us six minutes just to cross the bridge. The huge lump is there so cars are not slowed by a drawbridge

[@aromorguythefirst1600]

jn kr bruh wtf

[@larrytolman978]

Gonna google earth it in a second; so its like a State Decision then? In theory, Washington says we will only build this high but Oregon is like....well but we will go higher. hahaha

[@nathan-zz6hx]

I always cross that bridge to go to fishing ports, and Cape Disappointment State Park, and the Coast Guard Station.

[@nikitanovokhatniy1252]

Hey Squirrel, I live near Astoria, that bridged is like that in reality because Portland has a lot off big oil and cargo ships from China and they would not fit under the small part of the bridge.

[@mr_bean-fi6hd]

Nikita N and Squirrel. The bridge is so close to the Oregon side because the river is much deeper than the Washington side, during low tide you can actually see land on the Washington side.

[@DeadBaron]

The elevator bridge is MUCH older, to the point it's historic. The drawbridge would have been added to alleviate traffic.

[@KarlNightingale]

Too bad he didn't look at the train bridge. Three different bridge designs in less than a quarter-mile of river.

[@uppsalahazzemarkstedt2759]

I've done 101 north bound from LA to Seattle in a rental Buick. Took us 2 weeks! It's a lot of things to look at along this way as a tourist. Edit: You have a lot of sandbanks in these rivers and the current make it deeper on inside. Better to have the high bridge where big ships will go! :)

[@davegarski1548]

These latest videos are incredible to watch. The detail is absolutely amazing!

[@ConnerOnGames]

Completely Agree :)

[@sogwatchman]

18:17 From my experience, when you see two different style bridges it means one bridge was built quite a while ago and when the city/town outgrew its capacity they built another newer style bridge. and make them both one way.

[@Wraithdagger]

First thing I did with the Washington DLC was fast travel to San Diego and do the length of the 101. Amazing road.

[@dlittlester]

Back in my motorcycling days, some friends and I would go down from BC, catch the ferry to Port Angeles, and take the 101 all the way down to California. That's one nice ride. I think you'll find that it's wetter closer to the coast, and drier the more inland you go. The temps and dryness are very similar north and south. They change more east and west. So BC, Washington, and Oregon are very similar. There was talk a few years ago of them all getting together to become something called Cascadia. Somehow I doubt that could ever happen.

[@RLJSlick]

Once again, the US has tons of roundabouts. I just found this stat on Google: "There are over 5,000 modern roundabouts in the US(equivalent to the UK continental roundabout), as well as many rotaries/traffic circles and neighborhood traffic circles. " Now if you want to talk about how we drive on them that's another question. LOL Love your videos.

[@uppsalahazzemarkstedt2759]

@A real bisexual petrol-head No problem to beat that! We have alone about 500 roundabouts in my COUNTY of Uppsala, Sweden, Europe! We have 200k citizens and 10% of all roundabouts in US. I can give the Americans some for free! :D

[@stevelachappelle8571]

Ahh the PCH aka 101, I rode my bicycle down that whole road, its truly amazing. 21 days of watching the ocean change and the landscape.

[@arthuralford]

The US 101 drive is one of my favorites. Getting to see the coast and stopping at some of the lookouts always makes me feel better.

[@Y0uN00b3r123]

That coastal road is astonishing; i've been running loads on that route for minute now!

[@johnhooper7059]

Quite little town Aberdeen then in comes Squirrel in his 18 wheeler roaring down the road lol👍🏻 keep up the brilliant work

[@imaginary122]

28:52 when Oregon was released and i driven up to Astoria and i saw the bridge and looked on google maps. To get a feel for how it'll be when i can finally cross into Washington and it was an interesting bridge. It looks like something out of city skylines. As long as it works doesn't have to look natural. Good job SCS but yeah that's what it looks like!

[@dvdraymond]

I think Canada and Mexico would like to have a chat with you about what constitutes North America. But beautiful drive.

[@freewilli3114]

@Absolute Zero Don't know what kind of geography class you got at school in 'merica but everywhere else in the world we learn that North America is Canada U.S.A and Mexico. Mexico is part of the NAFTA

[@freewilli3114]

@Absolute Zero sorry about that mate...it sounded typical american to me since they call themself american and think there country name is america.

[@dioscaresparza]

@Absolute Zero No. It is not. Mexico is a part of North America.

[@valeriek9203]

If you want to see the more arid bits of WA, head east of the Cascades to Yakima and Spokane - it can be wonderfully desolate in reality! Love this DLC!

[@dlittlester]

We used to ride our motorcycles over the Cascades to Winthrop. An old west town that has nearby tumbleweed blowing over the roads.

[@Dkentflyer]

Really enjoying this showcase, i went travelling the north west coast of the USA and drove down 101 from Washington State down through Oregon through to the Redwood Forest in California. The best drive and scenery i have ever seen. Paul if you get the chance to drive in real life you will love it.

[@cliff8669]

As already posted, the bridge you crossed over from Washington State into Oregon is pretty much spot on to the real bridge. On the Washington side, what is not show in textures is historic Fort Columbia. Very nice place to go and see. It was used back in it's day to guard the mouth of the Columbia River as a coastal defense site. Went there once while living in Oregon. Love watching your Video's.

[@anonymousperson1726]

18:00 they probably did it differently as originally there was one two-way road but then traffic increased and the built another and made a more modern bridge for the new road

[@Nill_v]

3:20 - A little Rich Rebuilds going on there 🥴😂

[@ets2ats800]

I liked Washington very much. Beautiful terrain, diverse.

[@freewilli3114]

I don't know this area but Liftbridge are usually for railroads...since it is expensive to drawbrige a railroad track

[@StreetSoulLover]

The Astoria - Meglar Bridge is the longest continuous truss bridge in the USA and the last piece of Route 101, connecting LA to Olympya

[@Ash_Ketchum_Pikachu]

Washington has 2 state highways that go along the Pacific Coast (WA-105) and (WA-109).

[@kempo_95]

They are not in the game though sadly

[@BalooUriza]

In the pacific northwest, the drawbridges frequently go up. It's just something you have to plan around. Pretty much takes 2 hours to cross Portland by any mode as a result.

[@markhackett2302]

Pink leaved trees: Hill Cherry. Also pretty accurate AI on the driving: lots of drivers hold up dithering about getting out and then reach a decision too late but stick to that decision anyway.

[@wlower5159]

I love watching your videos, mainly because of how gentle of a person you are. Example: at 7:19 you said "Thank you" to a computer semi-truck that let you go by since you had the right of way.

[@KMS548]

The Astoria-Megler bridge is like that because of all the sandbars on the Washington side and in the middle of the Columbia (it’s at the mouth where the river meets the ocean). The only place for ships to get through is on the Oregon side, hence the steep grade in a “weird spot.”

[@bvkronenberg6786]

Aberdeen is a nice little town with an excellent beach. August and September are nice months, less rain. By the way, you can get a ticket for driving your truck in the left lane. You need to stay in the right most of the time.

[@cameronclemente7773]

Aberdeen city sighn motto is "Come as you are" tribute to Nirvana and the birthplace of Kurt Cobain

[@paulbeardmore9385]

That tall Brisge is over the Columbia river tall to allow ocean going shipping to pass under in order to dock in portland. ive driven 101 from seattle down to the california state line its amazing

[@Tas1962b]

I like the way they have the AI making the same driving mistakes as humans:)

[@TheDeluxe74]

They nailed that one on the head 😂😂

[@pauld2810]

28:53 In real life, that bridge is 4 miles long. Even on clear days, you can barely see the opposite shore. It's that high on one end because of the massive ships that come in from the Pacific Ocean, into the Port of Astoria.

[@d3von443]

I love that they added Washington because I live in lower B.C area in Canada and places like Bellingham really feel like I’m driving a truck in my area if you know what I mean

[@jazz2959]

Hey there Mr Squirrel, loving these vids on all forms of transport. The drive along the Pacific coast in WA is truly spectacular in terms of beaches, lakes, rain forest etc. You've gotta see it for real

[@kraven4444]

Makes perfect sense for the game to actually make you late. Accidents and random events Happens irl so why not?

[@MrMrduke1975]

Love the Lake Crescent drive! Done it many times!

[@SeniorWhoopyIRL]

I would really love to see a terrain map added and a Street view or satellite map added!

[@namedropper9237]

Washington actually has a decent amount of round a-bouts. I’ve driven through the continental US 4 times. The only states that I could remember seeing lots of round a-bouts are. Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Virginia, Maryland, California. Ofc I’m just spouting these based off my personal experiences.

[@ConnerOnGames]

Squirrel's reaction to the bridge was fantastic!

[@kenbennett4556]

Just a side note Olympic National Forest is actually a rain forest, just a bit of trivia. The Interstate Bridge that crosses from Oregon to Washington along Interstae 5 is also a lift bridge Actually the Astoria Bridge was designed to allow sea traffic to get to the various inland ports such as Portland, and not have to force traffic to halt due to numerous bridge lifts. There is another bridge that crosses at Longview Washington that is nearly as tall.

[@kindnessark8064]

18:45 the draw bridges would have been built at different times. The draw bridge you went over looked like an more older design bridge. You can also tell it would of been built first because that side of the road had more original buildings on the highway. The raising bridge on the left is a more modern 1980's and 1990's design which means the road was made wider into the highway around the 90's and they constructed the raising bridge on the other side.

[@BalooUriza]

29:27: Wow, the Astoria-Megler Bridge looks *bizarre* in the game. The low spot goes on for literally miles (I believe on a rock jetty, I know waves crash over it in bad storms when I've been stuck in traffic on it) in reality before the last section's about a mile-ish long on the Oregon side.

[@watchingponies]

It is so well done. I've done so much driving the past days. Crazy lol I can't believe how good your game looks, Just like Jeff's. You guys got no anti-aliasing issues. At all. (Edit: a lot less..) I guess your processors are more powerful. I still got those flickerings and train tracks that look like guitar strings moving. Flickering lightposts. Unreal how your game looks.

[@truthfilterforyoutube8218]

You really need to do what should have been first. I-90 East out of Seattle to Spokane ( Spo-can ). The best of it will be just east of Seattle as you will climb off the coast via the Snoqualmie pass. ( Sno Quawmy )

[@BalooUriza]

Squirrel's really hitting the centerlines a lot.

[@arkimidies]

At around 28:50 Welcome to the Columbia River, that bridge is one of the ways to cross the Columbia river from Washington into Oregon.

[@truthfilterforyoutube8218]

Those pink trees are native to Washington and British Columbia. They are Pink Magnolia trees

[@aaron69420-u]

As a Washington resident I can tell you that the Eastern part of Washington is vastly different from the Western half. Eastern WA is much more dry and rural.

[@rturner4205]

Easterner here! Vastly diffrent is an understatement. It's like being in another state.

[@Jesther01]

hey squirrel, pls use the Volvo VNL 2018 Mod for the next video... that 'thing' is a beauty to behold

[@eddog6666]

Alberdeen is actually on a massive inlet. Those bridges were over a bay.

[@ComdrStew]

Yeah cabovers are easier getting into places, but they beat you to death since you are riding on the front tires. Long nose trucks are a very smooth ride.

[@ThatGuy.75]

Aberdeen/Hoquim are logging towns, it is a very pretty drive, it can be a confusing drive too.

[@mutalimashamba4503]

I drove the 101 from Oxnard to Portland (I left the 101 at Newport)... one the most beautiful drives across both games, but I still think the WA-20 (previous video) is the best.

[@truthfilterforyoutube8218]

They build bridges high at one end because the water is often the deepest near one shoreline

[@pyroinsano]

So the Olympic National forest is all Old Growth forest for the most part so 100 or more years old with a lot of Cedar trees. There are some spots where Logging has happened but not in the last 50 or so years. It is also a Temperate Rainforest so tree growth doesn't get affected as much as some other areas in the PNW by natural disasters (such as Wildfires). This allows the trees to get as tall as they want not quite as tall as the Sequoias but 25+ meters tall. The Cascade Mountain range the Mountains you go over with Highway 2, 20 and Interstate 90 (plus one other that goes past Mt. Ranier/St. Helens in the DLC) were heavily logged before the National forest program was instituted (with no provisions for replanting until the 60s) and most trees are between 20 to 60 years old in and around these highways. Lots of forest roads and logging roads that spurt off these since this was the main forest land that provided building materials for Seattle, Tacoma and Eastern Washington.

[@jebenikupus]

I’ve started watching squirrel years ago and I just now realized that his squiggly logo makes up an actual squirrel..

[@kbgaming6012]

*Hi Squirrel!* *Could you do a video on the 6 trailer mod? They just added a 2 trailer baobab tree trailer which Im sure all of us will be excited to see!* *Edit: lol the likes are currently at 69*

[@Forcemaster2000]

We're getting more and more round-abouts in the US... Soon we'll look like Europe!

[@NazbolCaliphDonaldaddeenTrump]

The US coastal roads are really damn long and really scenic. On the east coast we have US-1 that goes from Key West, Florida, to Fort Kent, Maine (on the US/Canada border). I've driven (IRL) on that road many times around North Carolina and Virginia, and another part from New York, through Boston, through the rest of New England and up to New Brunswick, Canada. Great road. Btw the longest single road in the USA is I-90, it goes from Boston to Seattle along the northern USA parralel to the Canadian border Edit: 33:03 nearly all driver's education courses teaches us about rotaries (roudabouts) lol, but I do think its commonality depends on the state. In northeast USA where I live they seem more common than the rest of the USA Edit 2: Just checked, apparently my state (NH) ranks among the bottom in rotary users lmao, they're probably just concentrated into my county and thats it.

[@bean8559]

And that is the same roundabout in that last video, in Astoria, Oregon

[@RudeMcNasty]

Highway 1 has some weight restrictions. I have driven all it once when I was in my early twenties. Not part of Highway one is Grants Pass between California and Oregon quite beautiful stretch Road

[@glennb7524]

18:24 - one is railroad lift . the one you are on is highway bridge

[@PapaBear6t8]

6:20 Yes, it's a good but a very slow start! I mean, there are 40 something states left to do and if SCS comes up with 4 maps a year... well I'll let you do the math on how long will it take to finish them all! Some of us might not still be alive when this thing will be done... LOL

[@PapaBear6t8]

@Jeroen De Ryck That makes sense... they can do the whole New England in a single DLC, but it's still going to take a long time before they'll finish all of them at this release rate.

[@G.R.Kash11]

But just think how epic and detailed it will be when they get it finished.

[@richardstrickland8136]

U should see the Newport Bridge in Newport Rhode Island, it looks somewhat like the bridge at 31:13

[@MT_HOE9]

Its weird seeing roads and bridges you have driven on before in a game. Astoria's main roads and round abouts are pretty accurate.

[@inflam3]

KZbin recommendations. 💯 Always lit. Just subscribed man. 🔝

[@brocktadic2599]

You should definitely do the 101 and do a vlog of it

[@Forcemaster2000]

Draw bridge and lift bridge, different decades, different technologies

[@ToBCreations]

Nice drive! 🙂 It's a long time since I've played this game, but got inspired now. If not my memory fails me Aberdeen was Kurt Cobain's birthplace. A little fun fact there. 😜

[@ChrisJones-hv7mo]

Imagine how some would react to Turbo Roundabouts as found in the Netherlands and other places!

[@bradenwoods1111]

@6:42 lmao he says they got all NA but he forgot about us Canadians and then Mexico aswell makes up North America! :p i know you meant USA tho just teasing

[@jah24car]

Bridges like that stop the need for draw Bridges. Meaning there might've been an older route or bridge. Yes America has roundabout here in West Virginia we have 3 in the same county

[@knahrvorn]

I guess that IS what he said in the video about roundabouts in the US: "They DO have them, but they're incredibly scarce" (free from memory). Three in one county? I can easily think of several roads in my local area that have three or more roundabouts just on that street/road. 😉

[@mcbrochu]

Squirrel: at 2:10, the trailer damage comes from your trailer hitting than hydrant, you cut that corner way too much. That's not ETS2 you're playing ;)

[@Wraithdagger]

12:24 accurate representation of Washington drivers.

[@mukmama]

Nice video I enjoyed the journey squirrel

[@richardrobinson4045]

The Washington DLC was released on the (11)of this month

[@dan5825]

If you watched one of the last videos he made he says he's pre-recorded some stuff because he's gone on holiday

[@richardrobinson4045]

@@dan5825 It was in the last video he said that right??

[@Ash_Ketchum_Pikachu]

The island with the light house is Destruction Island.

[@rayyf69]

29:13 - 29:24 Squirrel accidentally discovers how to derez traffic jams in front of him.

[@alexsu6872]

Yield sign: Check to see if nobody is around. Wait until somebody is, then cut them off

[@zacharyreece2524]

great drives keep it up

[@mattsgarage530]

Hey Squirrel, its funny I go through Aberdeen all the time in the summer. That lift bridge isnt in use anymore theyve bypassed it with elevated bridges hahaaha

[@mattsgarage530]

and for that tall bridge, its to keep the shipping lane from Portland open to the sea, and its off to one side cause its like a wind tunnel in the center and the winds are slower on the side vs in the middle, so cars/trucks dont get thrown off the side of the bridge.

[@larsjohansen821]

Washington DLC was released on 11 June i think it was and i am currently on a trip to Washington from New Mexico

[@eddog6666]

I think Utah or Idaho is the next one

[@jamesc3753]

I really really miss the omni and rail works videos...

[@GrinchWSLG]

WA is mostly arid, only part of it is really wet.

[@brandonhall4037]

The bridge in Aberdeen goes up alot and when it does it sucks

[@roderickb7301]

They need to do a DLC on California. What about the 101 & the 405 in LA & staple center seen off the 5 freeway. & LAX

[@terenfro1975]

The eastern half of Washington is desert. Nothing green and wet about it. The only wet part is west of the mountains.

[@Scooterman8846]

In aberdeen in real life has 2 different bridges at that point. I leave here in Washington and have driven there a couple of times

[@christiansmith3218]

Please for the next video take the 101 from the top of Washington to Oxford, California thanks 😊

[@justint984]

Justin T was here.

[@dimento1527]

in north america they call then traffic circles

[@josephsamsor1698]

The thought just came to me, but what if they added hot shot trucking to this? In America some people just use 1 ton pickup trucks for hauling loads.

[@32446]

Nice video :)

[@devmans]

Love you!

[@bevillmen23]

7:01 that's just typical american driver--over the line lol

[@mr_bean-fi6hd]

Aberdeen is actually a huge dumb. I lived in Aberdeen for a couple months. And yea the two draw bridges don’t go up that often

[@kalyanbaron4614]

You changed the actual route , so I think the eta doesn't change

[@Q8Bart]

Squirrel Nutty Haul :)