Beta Hitch Manager 0.5.0

Hitch Manager
Road trains without the reversing trauma


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Just like me, annoyed at your own reversing skills the moment there's more than one trailer involved?

Want to rip through Johnson Valley like a slightly intoxicated road train driver, with four trailers behind you and zero patience?

Spent 20 minutes doing a 47-point turn just to get a dolly to kiss a pintle hitch, only for the whole thing to jackknife into a rock?

Look no further!

Hitch Manager is a UI app that hooks trailers up for you. Pick a hitch, pick a trailer, press Connect. The trailer teleports in behind you in a perfectly straight line, hitch on ball, and latches. No reversing, no spotter, no swearing. (swearing still allowed.)

What it does

• Connect any spawned trailer to the vehicle you're driving. The app shows your hitches (tow hitch, gooseneck, fifth wheel, pintle) and lists every compatible trailer on the map, nearest first.
• Lines it up for you. The trailer is placed straight behind you with its coupler on your hitch, then latched. It also lifts the trailer clear of the ground if needed.
• Build road trains. Hit Connect & switch and you're dropped into the trailer you just hooked up, ready to add the next one. Truck, dolly, trailer, dolly, trailer, questionable life choices.
• Decouple all. One button unhooks your whole combination and remembers how it was put together.
• Reconnect all. Rebuilds it from the front back, every trailer dead straight. Jackknifed your 60-metre monster? Decouple all, Reconnect all, pretend it never happened.
• Detach and Switch buttons for single hitches, so you can drop one trailer or jump into any vehicle in the chain.
• Modded vehicles welcome. Tick "All coupler types" to also show non-standard couplers.

How to use

1. Install the mod and load into Free Roam.
2. Press Esc, go to UI Apps, click Add App and pick Hitch Manager.
3. Spawn a truck and some trailers, get in the truck, pick a hitch, pick a trailer, press Connect.
4. Go do crimes against physics.

Good to know

• To chain trailers, each trailer needs a rear hitch part installed in its parts config (or use a dolly in between).
• Stop before connecting. It teleports the trailer, not your dignity.
• Build front to back: a trailer that already has things hooked to it won't be moved, so the chain doesn't get ripped apart.