Garbage Trucks

Garbage trucks picks up garbage from buildings they pass as well as the building they are dispatched to (this is part of the game, not of this mod).

One result of this is that if the trucks have to travel a long or convoluted way, and passes many buildings with garbage on the way to their target, they might have to turn back to unload before ever reaching their destination.

The prioritize assigned buildings option limits this behavior.

Garbage Truck Service Options

These options are only available for garbage trucks.

• Prioritize assigned buildings:
  Limits the amount of garbage picked up from buildings the trucks passes by, in order to leave room for garbage from their assigned buildings.

• Garbage amount patrol limit:
  Sets the amount of garbage a building must accumulate before a patrolling garbage truck is directed to it.

• Garbage amount dispatch limit:
  Sets the amount of garbage a building must accumulate before a garbage truck is dispatch do take care of it.

Standard Service Options

These options works the same as for other service vehicles.

• Dispatch garbage trucks:
  Handle dispatching for these service vehicles.

• Dispatch by district:
  All buildings in the same district as a service building are considered to be in it’s range.

• Dispatch by building range:
  All buildings within a certain distance from a service building are considered to be in it’s range. The distance is a property of the building asset. (But can also be adjusted with the Service Radius Adjuster mod.)

• Send out spare garbage trucks:
  When to send out new vehicles from the service building instead of sending one that’s already driving.
  See Sending Out Spare Vehicles.

• Garbage truck dispatch strategy:
  Choose the dispatch strategy to use for these vehicles.
  See Dispatch Strategies.

• Closest services to use when ignoring range:
  Only uses the specified number of service buildings closest to the target building when ignoring whether buildings are in range or not.

• Custom dispatch strategy
  The rules used for the custom dispatch strategy.
  See Custom Dispatch Strategy Rules.

If both Dispatch by district and Dispatch by building range are selected, a building is considered in range if it is either in the same district as, or within the coverage radius of, the service building.

Landfill Options

These options controls if/when the dispatcher orders emptying of landfills.

• Empty landfills:
  Handle emptying for these facilities.

• Start emptying at %:
  Start emptying the facility the more than this amount of space is used.

• Stop emptying at %:
  Stop emptying the facility when less than this amount of space is used.

The dispatcher does not control how the facilitie’s vehicles are used when emptying, nor to which it empties.