Truckful upgrades allow you to overhaul your pickup truck with higher engine power, expanded flatbeds, sturdier suspensions, and supernatural utility gadgets. Upgrading is essential for navigating Deep Stone Valley's ruined roads, treacherous mud, and hostile forest entities like the Ghost Truck. Vehicle enhancements in Truckful are divided primarily between standard automotive parts bought with coins and specialized salvage gizmos crafted using scrap.
Core Truck Stats and Vehicle Components
Entering a garage opens the vehicle setup menu, which tracks several core attributes that directly alter how your truck handles demanding terrain and heavy cargo loads.
- Power: Determined by your engine. Higher horsepower improves acceleration and prevents the truck from losing momentum when climbing steep mountain trails or carrying massive loads.
- Handling: Influenced by steering setups, such as Wider Steering, making tight turns and winding forest switchbacks easier to clear without spinning out.
- Traction: Dictated by your tires. Proper off-road or refurbished tires are necessary to combat wheel spin on slick grass, loose dirt, and wet mud.
- Suspension: Dampens violent road bumps and prevents the rear end of your truck from bottoming out or scraping the dirt under heavy weight.
- Brakes: Shortens stopping distance, which is critical when approaching abrupt sinkholes or obstacles without catapulting loose packages forward.
- Weight: Dictated by your chassis body. Heavier frames (such as steel) reduce the risk of being thrown into the air by uneven terrain or collisions, while lightweight alloy frames improve overall speed at the cost of stability.
- Cargo Bed: Determines total grid capacity and perimeter containment for deliveries.
The table below lists the mechanical truck parts confirmed in player testing and gameplay:
| Component Type | Known Parts | Primary Benefit / Stat Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Engine | 75 HP Engine, 90 HP Engine | Increases raw power to climb steep hills with heavy cargo |
| Steering | Wider Steering, Power Steering | Improves steering response and turning angle on tight paths |
| Suspension | Rusty Suspension, Derusted Suspension | Absorbs rough bumps to prevent cargo from bouncing loose |
| Tires | Refurb Tyres, Off-Road Tyres | Enhances grip and reduces sliding on dirt and muddy surfaces |
| Brakes | Upgraded Brake Assemblies | Sharply reduces stopping distance for emergency halts |
| Body / Weight | Superlight Body, Steel Body | Adjusts vehicle weight to favor top speed or stability |
Cargo Bed Sizes and Managing Delivery Capacity
Your flatbed capacity dictates which orders you can take on. Many story deliveries—such as transporting construction workers, heavy machinery, toxic herbicide barrels, or multiple crates—exceed the default cargo space. If an order exceeds your bed capacity, the game will present a capacity warning before loading.
- Chimney 12+ / Narrow Basket 18+: Starter utility beds suitable for single-passenger pickups or stacked small parcels.
- Painted GT18+ / Tarp 18: Mid-tier flatbeds offering higher side walls to keep bouncy items from slipping out sideways.
- Cargo Bed 24+: Accommodates broader industrial deliveries, including equipment combinations.
- Flatbed XL 30+: The heavy-duty commercial bed required for large logistical tasks, such as hauling the repair crew and concrete mixer to bridge and road repair sites.
If you find yourself lacking the coins needed to purchase a required flatbed upgrade, you are not permanently stuck. Completed deliveries can be replayed immediately from the order summary to earn extra coins. Additionally, you can search the valley for side delivery requests (marked by envelope or red house icons on your map) to build up your bank balance.
Special Gadgets, Utilities, and Active Skills
Beyond baseline vehicle performance, Truckful features utility modules and supernatural gadgets designed to counter the valley's environmental hazards and aggressive entities.
- Navigation System: Displays your vehicle’s exact coordinates and lost cargo markers on the map, providing a direction arrow toward primary delivery objectives.
- Sticky Cargo: An active ability installed on your truck bed. When triggered, it locks loaded items firmly onto the flatbed for several seconds, preventing them from flying out during high jumps and sharp turns. Any recently detached cargo will also pull back toward the bed automatically.
- Winch: An essential rescue tool used to haul the truck out of impassable mud pits, cross deep swamps, or anchor to retracting road poles to clear steep gaps.
- Boost (Nitro): Grants a sudden burst of high acceleration, useful for clearing ramps or putting distance between your vehicle and pursuing threats like the Ghost Truck.
- Metal Detector: Scans the ground to locate buried military salvage, scrap caches, and dangerous hidden landmines scattered through the wilderness.
- Runes: A passive installation that permanently slows down approaching hostile forest entities without requiring manual activation.
- Camouflage: A passive upgrade that lowers your detection profile, reducing the likelihood of encountering aggressive hazards while exploring.
- Horn / Howler: Used to scatter wildlife. A standard horn clears passive livestock like sheep off the road, while upgraded howlers can scare off territorial wild boars blocking thoroughfares.
- Shockwave / Knockdown: An offensive burst utility that stuns nearby pursuers or pushes aside obstructing hazards.
Where to Upgrade: Garages and Currencies
Upgrades in Deep Stone Valley are distributed across different facilities, each demanding a specific currency.
Theresa’s Repair Shop (Outskirts Garage)
Theresa’s garage is located along Willow Avenue near the intersection with Travelers Road. She specializes in standard mechanical repairs, cosmetic paint finishes, body panel options, engine replacements, and basic electrical equipment like the initial GPS Navigation unit. Transactions at Theresa’s workshop are settled using standard valley coins earned from completed delivery orders.
Red and Zed’s Scrapyard (The Rust Mire)
Located near the Eastern Railway area, the scrapyard is run by Rusty Red and his son, Zed. They do not accept ordinary coin currency for their custom inventions. Instead, you must feed scrap into their automated processing machinery. Scrap is scavenged by picking up broken vehicle remnants, discarded metal, and abandoned military equipment throughout the valley. Zed uses this scrap to craft and install advanced survival modifications, including the Boost module, Winch, Metal Detector, and defense tools.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I earn enough coins if I cannot afford a required flatbed?
You can replay any previously completed mission from the post-delivery summary screen to receive its coin payout again. You can also explore towns and road junctions to accept optional side deliveries, which are identified by envelope icons.
Why does cargo still fall out after installing Sticky Cargo?
Sticky Cargo is an activated ability rather than a permanent passive magnet. When you press the designated activation button, the cargo adheres to the bed for a limited duration before entering a cooldown period. It should be timed right before entering rough terrain, high-speed curves, or sudden drops.
What are the road poles that sink into the ground?
The rising and falling metal posts found along roads and forest paths serve as winch anchor points. Once you have the Winch installed, you can attach your cable to these poles to pull your truck across deep swamp water or rapidly escape pursuing hazards.
What is the difference between coin upgrades and scrap upgrades?
Coins fund traditional mechanical improvements (such as horsepower, braking, suspension kits, and larger flatbed shells) primarily through Theresa's workshop. Scrap serves as an alternative salvage currency exchanged exclusively at Red and Zed's Scrapyard for tactical gadgets like the Winch, Nitro Boost, and Metal Detector.
