The early hours of Frostline Transit are its tensest stretch. Here is how to come out of the first five runs with a working truck and a fuel margin.
Frostline Transit is at its most dangerous before your depot network exists, when a single bad fuel calculation ends a run and there is no gathering loop to dig you out of it. The first five runs set up everything that follows.
Take short contracts you can complete inside a single weather window, even at poor rates. A completed cheap run beats an abandoned lucrative one every time, because the tyre wear and fuel you spend on a failed haul are gone either way. Refuse anything that routes you past the northern pass until you have a spare tyre in the hold.
Repair before you think you need to. The vehicle degradation curve is not linear, and the difference between eighty per cent and sixty per cent condition is roughly triple the failure chance in cold weather. Establishing two depots early buys you the freedom that makes the mid-game enjoyable.
