§1.4 - Reporting users Any violation of the following rules might result in a temporary or permanent ban from the web reporting system. The evidence you provide cannot be older than 1 month. You can not report players with evidence that has not been recorded in-game by yourself. Spamming our report system with useless reports, reports using continuous freecam (Cam 0) to record or anything similar. The evidence you provide us must be available for the length of the ban applied, plus one month. Evidence for permanent bans must be available forever. Any evidence you provide must not be cropped, retouched or blurred in any way that alters the evidence. Videos can only be cropped time-wise. Report evidence exceeding 5 minutes in length must have a timestamp attached in the report. Evidence containing insults or otherwise offensive marks in the title, description or similar won't be accepted and the reporter might be banned for insulting, depending on the severity. It is mandatory to fill in all required fields accurately when creating a report. Reports for reasons mentioned under §2 must have video evidence. Insulting in the text chat must be reported with the full chat open. Ban Evading reports must contain evidence of eventual ban evading, reports cannot be made solely out of suspicion. Asking for a staff's priority with handling a report is not permitted. If a web-report has been declined, it's not permitted to create it again. The complaint must be addressed to the Game Moderation Management through the feedback system. Reporting staff must be done through the feedback system. For some basic guidelines on reporting, please refer to this article. §1.5 - Inappropriate use of language, communication and impersonation of any kind Using insults of any sort to put another user down. This can include but is not limited to racism, discrimination, discussing/expressing (extreme) political views, illegal or inappropriate situations. Light insults in chat such as "idiot" and "noob" are normally not punished, however, if abused they will be. Profanity without any insult is punishable. Bans or kicks are issued at our staff's discretion. Behaviour that is considered to be threatening towards any user of our service is not allowed. Impersonating other users, staff members, political figures, law enforcement, leaders and authorities of any kind, acting like someone who is more superior or acting like a member of a verified VTC you are not part of. This can be through the way you drive, use the voice chat, your avatar, your license/interior plates, username and/or your in-game tag. Avatars, usernames and in-game tags need to be appropriate and cannot contain offensive content in any way and are not exempted from light insults, or inciting any kind of violence. Your name must consist of only alphanumeric characters or else it will be changed by staff without notification. Linking or providing access to unsafe websites or content. Any reference related to drugs, other illegal substances, pornographic or sexual content or otherwise illicit matters. This applies to any links posted, avatars, signatures, in-game tags, images uploaded or content written. Sharing personal details, including links to social media accounts about other users is not allowed. Depending on the situation, this can also apply to other services that we use to aid us within TruckersMP. §2 - Game only rules Rules marked with an Asterisk () do not apply on Arcade servers with 'Arc' or 'Arcade' in their title. Traffic laws and road signage must be obeyed. This means European road laws and signage must be followed in ETS2 and American road laws and signage must be followed in ATS. Failure to adhere to the respective road laws and signage could result in a punishment. Traffic lights and stop signs can be ignored if no other users are in the immediate area. Also, overtaking is allowed if no other users were put in any risk of an accident. Speeding, while allowed, is not recommended. Speeding can lead to accidents and can factor in a punishment decision. If you have the right-of-way or another player is in the wrong, you must make reasonable efforts to avoid collisions. Baiting other players into accidents will not be tolerated and is punishable. §2.5 - Reckless Driving Driving in such a way that is considered unsafe and that puts other players in danger. This includes but is not limited to: driving backwards, ignoring traffic lights or road signage, speeding, racing other users (except in Tucson, Phoenix, and Södertälje (ProMods) racetracks). Driving outside of the map boundaries or in areas that are not covered by the mini map/GPS. Hidden roads which are intentionally part of the map are not included. You can use these roads. In ProMods, you can drive on unlocked roads or paths. Attempting to use desync lag or quick saves in order to cause damage to another user's vehicle. Using the ghost mode feature to go through traffic jams. §5.1 - Server Auto Kicks Ping - If your ping is over 600ms to the server, you will be disconnected from the server in order to avoid desync issues for others. This ping check is taken as an average. Away from keyboard - Being inactive for over 10 minutes. Car with trailer - Attaching a trailer to your car (not including the caravan.) Truck with caravan - Attaching the caravan to your truck. Headlights - Headlights must always be on between the hours of 21:00 (9 PM) - 05:00 (5 AM). Unsupported accessories - Using police accessories or any other unsupported items (Special Cargo DLC trailers for ETS 2 and ATS). Local Mods - Using local-only items such as sound and model accessories that use the /home directory (this does not include addon hookups). Excessive amount of accessories - Using an excessive amount of save edited items Maximum amount of accessories for a truck: 100 Maximum amount of accessories per a trailer: 50 Maximum amount of hookups per an accessory: 25 Too many trailers - Using a modified trailer combination with more than 3 parts for ETS2 or 5 parts for ATS will cause the server to kick you, regardless of location on the map. Negative cargo mass - Using a trailer with a mass lower than 0. Mixing vehicle items - Using car parts on a truck, truck parts on a trailer or car parts on a trailer, and vice versa for each case. §5.7 - Additional rule sets.