- Primary Subject: Special Transport DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 (version 1.62, Iceland) and American Truck Simulator
- Key Update: Special Transport jobs only appear in Quick Jobs and the Freight Market, on fixed routes that start in specific, discovered cities.
- Status: Evergreen
- Last Verified: November 13, 2026
- Quick Answer: Own the Special Transport DLC, discover a route's starting city, then take the job from Quick Jobs or the Freight Market.
Euro Truck Simulator 2's Iceland expansion launched on November 10 with four new Special Transport routes, including a loop that starts and finishes in Selfoss.
Anyone who already owns the Special Transport DLC gets them at no extra cost. They appear in only two of the game's job markets, and only from certain starting cities.
Special Transport is the escorted oversize haulage in both SCS Software games. You drag a load far too big for normal traffic along a fixed, scripted route while a pair of escort vehicles clears the road around you.
American Truck Simulator has its own version, and the two work almost the same way.
Start With the Special Transport DLC
Neither game ships Special Transport in the base package, as both versions are paid DLC at $4.99 on Steam. Euro Truck Simulator 2 arrived on December 13, 2017, and American Truck Simulator got its own on November 7, 2018.
SCS also sells it in bundles: the Euro Truck Simulator 2 Cargo Bundle pairs it with the High Power and Heavy Cargo packs. At the same time, American Truck Simulator's Exceptional Cargo Bundle adds Heavy Cargo and Forest Machinery.
The Heavy Cargo Pack, however, is a separate DLC. It came out in 2017 for both games and adds huge loads on steerable trailers, but those jobs behave like any other delivery.
There are no escorts and no set route. If you bought Heavy Cargo and keep wondering where the escort cars went, that's why.
Once the DLC is installed, open the DLC Browser from your profile and make sure Special Transport shows as active.
Players also report that the jobs only unlock once you have at least one point in the High Value Cargo skill, and that an in-game email lists the starting cities.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 Routes Follow the Map DLCs You Own
Special Transport jobs start in specific cities, and the job lists only show work from cities you've already discovered. If you've never driven through a route's origin, its jobs won't appear, DLC or not.
The DLC launched with 17 routes spread across Scandinavia, Going East!, Vive la France!, and the base map.
SCS has added more with nearly every map expansion since, including Iberia, West Balkans, Greece, and Nordic Horizons, which brought five in November 2025.
Iceland's four run from Keflavík to Selfoss, Blönduós to Akureyri, and Ólafsvík to Hólmavík, plus the Selfoss loop.
A route needs every map it touches. Ioannina to Vlorë crosses from Greece into Albania, so it only shows up for players who own both Greece and the West Balkans.
The cargo list keeps growing alongside the routes. Update 1.56 in September 2025 added the CZ LOKO EffiShunter 1000 locomotive, which SCS called "one of the heaviest cargoes we've ever introduced into the game."
Update 1.57 followed in November with a wind turbine blade and an underground loader, and Iceland brought over the articulated dumper from American Truck Simulator.
American Truck Simulator Adds Routes With Almost Every State
American Truck Simulator works the same way. The base game's California and Nevada routes come with the DLC, and each state expansion usually adds three or four more.
Missouri, Iowa, Louisiana, and Illinois have all done it since spring 2025. South Dakota, released September 24, 2026, is the newest, with runs from Pierre to Spearfish, Winner to Mitchell, and Mobridge to Buffalo.
When Missouri launched in April 2025, SCS said it was updating the DLC "as we do with every new map expansion."
Update 1.53 in November 2024 raised American Truck Simulator's speed limit for the escorts and the transport truck from 40 mph to 55 mph.
The 39-meter wind turbine blade reached American Truck Simulator in update 1.49 in November 2023, two years before Euro Truck Simulator 2 got its own.
Take the Job From Quick Jobs or the Freight Market
Special Transport only appears in two places. Quick Jobs hands you a company truck with the special trailer already hooked up, which is the easiest way to try one.
The Freight Market lets you drive your own truck, and the game supplies the trailer. Players report the listings carry an oversize banner and no company name, so sorting by sender pushes them to the top.
The Cargo Market won't offer them, since you can't haul oversize loads on a trailer you own.
External Contracts and the World of Trucks market skip them too, so they almost certainly won't count toward the Cruising Iceland event that runs until January 3, 2027.
Convoy is out as well. SCS's notes for the 1.41 Convoy beta were blunt: "Special Transport jobs are not allowed."
Once you're rolling, the lead escort sets the pace. Stay behind it and do what it tells you, because drifting off the route or ignoring an instruction can fail the job on the spot. Checkpoints save your progress along the way.
Why Your Special Transport Jobs Aren't Showing Up
Start with the DLC Browser. If Special Transport shows up grayed out, a fix posted on the SCS forums in 2017 is to delete the dlc_oversize file from the game folder and verify the game files through Steam.
Mods are the next suspect. Map and cargo mods can hide the jobs, as can anything else that edits game data, and an SCS beta tester warned about exactly that on the official forum. Players also report the DLC doesn't work with ProMods at all.
If the DLC and your mod list are clean, look at the map. A route won't appear until you've discovered its starting city and own every map DLC it passes through.
After that, players disagree on the fix. Some say sleeping or waiting a day or two of in-game time cycles the listings. Others report Special Transport sits in its own list, and each job stays posted for 80-plus in-game hours, so it should already be there.
A 2017 DLC That Still Gets New Routes
Special Transport is nearly nine years old in Euro Truck Simulator 2, and SCS still adds routes to it with almost every map launch. Iceland's routes went live on release day alongside the articulated dumper, free to anyone who already owned the DLC.
The 17 routes it launched with have grown with nearly every expansion since. The jobs are almost always there, as long as you look in the right market and start from the right city.
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