TrucklineMP vs TruckersMP: which one should you actually play?

The short answer

For most players, TruckersMP is still the better choice

TruckersMP has a twelve-year track record, over 6 million registered accounts, thousands of players online at any hour, support for both Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator, and a mature VTC and events ecosystem.

TrucklineMP launched publicly in 2026. It is a genuine project with sensible ideas about moderation, but it is early, ETS2-only, and has a far smaller population. If you want busy roads and organised convoys, start with TruckersMP. If a lighter moderation touch matters more to you than server activity, TrucklineMP is worth trying alongside it — they are separate clients and separate accounts, so you do not have to pick one.

Where TruckersMP is ahead

Population, coverage, and twelve years of accumulated ecosystem

Population

This is the decisive factor in a multiplayer trucking mod, because empty roads defeat the point. TruckersMP sustains several thousand concurrent drivers across European, North American and Asian servers, which means live convoys, populated hotspots, and events that actually fill.

Two games, not one

TruckersMP covers both ETS2 and American Truck Simulator. If you own ATS or plan to buy it, TrucklineMP does not currently serve you at all.

Ecosystem depth

Twelve years has produced a VTC directory with thousands of active companies, a recurring events calendar, a live traffic map, ProMods compatibility, and a support and appeals structure with defined processes. A new project cannot manufacture this quickly, however good its engineering is.

Update cadence against SCS releases

ETS2 patches break multiplayer mods. TruckersMP has a long history of shipping compatibility updates, and the community knows roughly what to expect after an SCS release. TrucklineMP has not yet been through enough of these cycles to have a track record either way.

Where TrucklineMP has a real case

Three reasons people are trying it

Moderation philosophy

TrucklineMP positions itself around proportionate enforcement — treating minor collisions and clip-throughs as reviewable incidents rather than automatic bans. Ban proportionality is a long-standing and legitimate criticism of TruckersMP. If you have been banned over a minor incident, this will land.

Support responsiveness

A smaller platform can answer tickets faster. That advantage is real right now, and it tends to erode with scale.

A newer networking core

The team claims a tighter multiplayer core with better convoy stability and fewer random disconnects. That is currently a claim rather than a result demonstrated at scale, but it is not implausible for a codebase written from scratch in 2026.