"I don't know if the traffic is disabled here" - I visited Iceland last year and hired a 4x4. I can confirm that outside of Reykjavik you can drive for hours and not see a single vehicle.

As an Icelandic person I have to say that I am amazed at how accurate some parts of this mod is. Bónus is real grocery store in Iceland and so is the gas station N1 (named after road number 1 that goes around the country) it is this rare to see other cars on the road in the country side and if you don't have chain tiers or nail tires you are screwd! the signs look like this and some part of the roads and scenery is almost 90% accurate! well done whomever made this!

I would laugh if someone try's to steal the trailer thinking its full of beer, but they find a whole load of fish fingers.

Grolsch is Dutch beer actually ;)

Anyone who says they don't like that sound can't say they love scanias... There is no better sound than a straight piped Scania v8. Ps. That noise that plays every gear change is just the straight pipe powing

The guys from ProMods should get a medal from the Icelandic Tourism Board! If wonderful scenery like this can be created in ETS' fairly dated graphics engine, what will the Unreal Engine 4 Train Simulator be capable of?! Can't wait.

2:40 Im Dead That sounds so frikin good!

ETS2!! Thanks squirrel, Jesus I miss this game.

Watching this in 2019. Beautiful video. The more I watch, the more I'm hooked on to ETS. Pro mods look beautiful. Looks like I'm going to have to get myself the game + mods. I hope my wife wont leave me.

GERMAN BEER!?!? ITS DUTCH GODDAMMIT

31:53 I was kind of shaking my head there because I *knew* you would have to drop into first gear to start moving-Hill start.

20:15 I would! This is pretty much my dream house!

When you got stuck on the snow with the misshift, did you see the yellow bus give you a push to get you started again? Start at 31:40

Travelled around southern Iceland the other week, it was beautiful, makes a change from driving round Liverpool :-)

As an icelander I had good luck bumping into this video, good job mate, looks ok for icelandic scenery and alot of nice details like the signs and companies, but also had some really bad stuff, and as a final point that airfield in the end is real, and its an experience landing there, first time I went a group in the airplane screamed when making the turn at bottom of fjörd :)

I like your comments on living remotely, in areas of Scotland, your water may be mains from a reservoir, but it could also be piped in from a pool in stream further up the hill, which can freeze in the winter. I did have a holiday in Ardnumurchan at Christmas one year. Romantic ideals go out the window. Christmas morning you wake and you open the windows to a black void. You have 6 hours of daylight, if the weather is bad, your not going anywhere. Where I was there was 30 miles of narrow single track road. 60 miles to the next petrol station. We had an 18 hour powercut. The house we stayed in and a few others around looked very like the house in Father Ted. We had one shop which charged you to pump petrol and it sold everything, one pub and a community centre. Oh and a cemetery. Driving in these little squiggly roads is fun, till you get in a hail storm, at night. The landscapes were amazing. The likes of Amazon do really well out there. By the way, those poles by the side of the road are left overs from WW2, to stop German gliders from landing.. No really they are snow poles, tell you where the road is. I once came across some where the top half were bent over. I couldn't work it out. Then someone said the snow had covered them, then the snow on top few feet slid down the hill bending the poles as it went.

One of the most entertaining trucking videos you've ever done imo. Love it!

it sounds like a straight piped v8

I drove this road a few years ago during my two week holiday on Iceland. This road was amazing, the fjords we followed looked beautiful and the change in dirt and tarmac all the time made this road a never leaving memory. Promods has done a really good job in recreating this road, it looks very similar and the textures are gorgeous. When we drove here a few years ago, we stayed at a camping in Ísafjörður. This was the best camping we stayed at during our holiday, it was called Tunguskogur and I would recommend it to everyone who is going to do a road trip through Iceland. You should also visit Bolungarvík, where they have a indoor swimming pool. When you continue following the 630 you'll reach a beautifully small beach, which I also recommended. (I tried to use my best English in this post. If you've a correction feel free to tell them because I can learn from them 😊).

That V8 sound is pretty spot on. The "pneumatic" sound on the gear change, has no place there. It does have something to do with changing the gears, it is the sound of the turbo spooling down when you engage the clutch after heavy loads. So when shift up during acceleration it should be there once. The pneumatic sound of the split or range being changed is a short hiss and click sound, (a small actuator being extended or retracted.) and not a whoosh of air.

*hello gentlemen* Great, Iceland is just great 🇮🇸

As someone who has driven this route in a truck in real life quite a few times I must say it's rather accurate. Although there isn't any snow in these parts during July (the temperature usually hovers around the 10°C mark in the summer but can go up to and even over 20°C) and all those houses you talk about are farms. The town with the airport (Ísafjörður) is remarkably well modelled and yes it's an airport with two scheduled domestic flights a day to Reykjavík and some private plane traffic as well. The Bónus store is actually right were it is should be with the Orkan petrol station as well. The only thing I saw really wrong with the map were those two tunnels early on, before you got to Borgarnes, they do not exist, and it was missing a few of the fjords along the way (IRL you drive the coast of four of them all the way, two are connected close to the bottom and two of them have bridges over them). Also you would not drive this route anymore as there was a new road opened in 2009, if my memory serves me right, that would get you rid of the gravel parts and connects right before the village you guessed was about half way (which is is really close to be, so good guess). The part that you had your problems on the snowy mountain we often use chains and I for one have driven over there with about 5-10 meter visibility a few times and those who drive this route on the daily have all had their fair share of adventures there I think.

Squirrel - here in Norway, as well as in Iceland, we have an extra module in our driver's tests. It's called slippery driving and is why Icelandic and Norwegian drivers are concidered some of the most experienced in these types of conditions. PRO TIP: When trying to do a hill-start or similar in slippery or snowy conditions, NEVER touch the gas. Simply work the clutch, and ONLY the clutch. The engine will have too much torque if you touch the gas, and you'll be stuck with spinning tires, going nowhere.

I have been to Iceland. It is really beautiful landscapes they have, sometimes almost surrealistic.

Cant wait to drive this route myself, although I'ma do it properly, with a tag lift :p Those have a whole lot more traction than a 2 axle truck, its a reason why most semis in Norway are sold with a taglift, and its a reason why all the polish drivers with 2 axles get stuck here xD

Dammit, I read Northern Ireland and got excited, but I have already seen this on stream.

That engine sound is absolutely awesome!

a top 10 squirrel tour would be awesome!

The closest thing you get to this in vanilla ets2 is the short back-road from Bern to Milano i.e. Switzerland to Italy, and that is a joke compared to this.

I would love to see a "Car" Simulatior very similar to European and American Truck Simulator. or just add a expansion pack.

That sound on the 143m is just amazing

The hydraulic sound makes me think of dogs howling as they slide on ice in a tunnel. Love the retro 80's look, and the fact its a Scania but I couldn't live with that sound, authentic or not. If I had bought that truck I would have to take it back.

The airfield is Ísafjörður-BIIS I think. A 180 deg turn to finals Nice :-)

Iceland and Greenland need to switch their names.

What an awesome video Squirrel, I really felt I was sitting in the passenger seat with you, loved the fact no one was behind you until you stopped in that snow, then a few coaches appeared, the snow blowing across the road, the sound of sea gulls when as you went through the fishing village. If you were to do Top Ten Journeys, I think this one would be my number one. I fully agreed with your comments re scenery, they have done a Outstanding Job. Must admit that runway looked challenging. Thank You for this Great Journey in Iceland.

Imagine if you did a 10 trailer truck carrying 60 tonnes of baked over the ten trailers going from London to Prague, then headed up to Warsaw in Poland, then finally ended up to Riga, Latvia’s capital city. What a monster journey that would be, eh Squirrel? That would be EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got all excited thinking this was a Northern Ireland journey

Please can you upload more train sim 2016 and also complete the 3 countries corner route?

Good vid, Paul. I love Iceland so really enjoyed it. In real life, those tunnels through the mountain are a little longer and far more frequent.

Hmmm Just discoverred the video today. You mentioned German beer at the start talking about the trailer. However it is a Dutch brand beer. It all starts on May 11, 1615, when Willem Neerfeldt buys a building in Grol (Groenlo) for the start of a brewery. Groenlo is in the Netherlands so it is a Dutch beer

"It's amazing how they made this so you don't get framedrops" Says a guy with dual 980 ti's :/

can you do promods install and download turtorial

The most beautiful...and scary journey I ever made in ETS2. Now imagine you pulling a 45t asphalt milling machine on your back. I'm glad I only carried that half way up.

That was so pretty and I loved the loss of traction. Just incredible. I might have to get this mod when it comes out. Very superior workmanship.

The klicking sound on that truck is unnbearable !

Squirrel, this is hands down the best and my most favorite ETS2 video of all time. I don't mean from you, I mean from anybody! 10/10 stars!!! :-D

You can hear the seagull at about 36:45 haha this new update just looks great and i love the new fuel station :)

This game engine never ceases to amaze me. ProMods must have some extra physics in this time, what with snow drifts, wheel snow spray and slippy roads. And wow, what scenery!

Awesome video, what a beautiful, thought provoking drive. Enjoyed riding along with you.

Loving the truck paint paul! Great work!

We're not gonna take the Grolsch trailer -> proceeds to take the Grolsch trailer. Another fine video!

Good luck blasting across that snow. Our coach couldn't climb this slippery hill so we had to reverse to turn around and go back.

The wind blowing across the snow looked fantastic, really nice work ProMods :-)

32:30 This is why timber trucks use Fuller transmission. You can make lightning fast gear changes in sticky situations. :D

Love watching the old videos with the old Scania open pipe

nice piece of information here, coming from an Icelander. Almost every house in Iceland has hot water, cold water, sewage, electricity, and cellphone reception. It's wery rare to see a house in Iceland that douesn't have one or more of these things. Seeing as in this time and age, you're not going to want to live in a house without these basic necessities.

Not that I think it matters a lot in this game however those 2 axels trucks are usually the worst on snow and always get stuck up here in the winter. We use trucks with boggie or tandem drive to help us get forward in the winter time and lift the rear axle to get more weight on the powered axle or what its called.

That blowing snow on top of that nasty hill is flipping awesomly done.

amazing how detailed this map is, been driving there myself on holiday :)

I discovered ets2 à few weeks ago and I played this Iceland map with frosty weather mod and slippery road addon. It was a nightmare to drive through but I enjoyed it so much ! I know this comment is late, but many thanks for these great landscapes the modders offered us.

i went on vacation to Iceland a couple years back, we rented a RV and took the coastal road all around the circumference of the island. absolutely gorgeous country with a surprising amount of diversity to the scenery, just no trees lol the traffic in this is pretty realistic also.

32:00 this is why you use a tag lift if your anywhere north of newcastle/denmark xD

I really enjoyed driving around in Iceland with the ProMods. Fantastic work done by the creators.

I got to drive around parts of east Iceland (Egilsstaðir, Reyðarfjörður and Eskifjörður) back in November, really enjoyed the experience so definitely going to have to download this mod.

I remember on vacation on Iceland once, and we rented an car. If you want to drive on those dirt roads, or to glaciers etc you must have an approved vehicle to travel those roads. As Insurance wont cover an stuck Fiat Panda off roading like Toyota Land-Cruisers on stilts :D

One of your very best. Loved the truck, the route...everything!

You were right it is beautiful scenery.

Yep, Iceland! Populated by Bodybuilders and Puffins but cant help to think with landscape like that it needs Dragons :D

I just drove on this route today with my scania r730 2x4 truck and 40ton tractor!

My mate has a 143 and the sound is spot on.

I think it was beer in that trailer, you need a truckload of beer a week to survive the winter in such remote areas, also who would need a truck load of frozen processed fish products TO a fishing village :). And the orange road signs are temporary information signs. The airfield is also real and I think fairly accurate in the game, you should check it out in FS.

Yea that is a real airport. It has a really fun approach +Squirrel

That peugeot rant at the end was very funny XD

Decent reverse at the end. Its a much more realistic delivery point. I had to reverse a 70ft car transporter into a dealership in the middle of Glasgow City last week and no one has the patience to wait and give you room, at least in Iceland it seems quiet enough to do it at your own pace lol.

As an Icelandic person I can say this is really accurate! I have to get that mod!

Scania never lets you down ;) 32:29

I've found that it is easier if you put on your trailer brake, put your low gear and give it revved . slowly let your clutch out until you have friction the release the trailer brake. this seem like the easiest solution to use on incline starts

Can you please start an another trip on Iceland with another route? This trip is OUTSTANDING!!!!!

the noise between changes is a pow that comes from a straight piped diesel. 143s are also 12 speed but sounds the dogs

Grolsch isn't German beer! It's one of the best dutch beers brewed in Enschede (which is very close to the German border, though).

A tiny correction Squirrel, Iceland lies below the arctic circle... In Norway, north of the arctic circle, it's completely dark 24/7 during the winter and during summertime it's sun 24/7... It's actually no biggie to live here though temperatures tend to crawl down to -50*C in January-February, if we're really lucky we can get Southern-European temperatures during the summer :)

Hey Paul, did a trip around Iceland, what a joy and the scenery not only breathtaking but challenging as well. Great stuff!!!

Absolutely stunning Squirrel. Can't wait for 2.1

My God that Scania actually sounds awesome.

Watched your stream and i saw you have never been on the routes in Norway. You should imho. The drives between Bergen and Oslo & Stavanger and Oslo make me wanna see those in real life. Stunners. Absolute favs.

I love how the Scania truck makes a nice noise when accelerating.

That Airfield IS real....and that approach is suicidal xD

Grolsch, a cool German beer? Sir, I'll have you know it's a Dutch brewery in the town of Enschede.

Squirrel , the sound was originally created based on the modern Scania R or Streamline by Kreichbaum , it seems to be ported from him , then again , lots of Scania mods use his work. I do see what you mean when you say it sounds like a 143m V8 engine , but it wasn't intended as it.

This V8 sound is awesome!

I love the interior of that truck.

25:25 I like how the road is barely a foot away from the ocean.

Squirrel your branded pc's are killing it!

Hello Squirrel. Im from Swaziland and I am a big fan of your channel and I am a huge fan of simulation games. I hope one day I'll become like you.

enjoyed you trip to Iceland. you provide more enjoyment and fun than professional entertainers.

Fun fact You started in the town i born and raised in and i still live in Akranes and that route you drive i have driven it many times.

Traction Squirrel! TRACTION! For goodness sakes!!! Lol!

Had my first drop off in Iceland on pm 2.03 and it one of the best places in the whole game imo

At 20:30, one thing that guy has is the sound of loud Scania V8s passing by his house every morning, kappa.

It certainly sounds like the old 143 Scania V8, but the starter motor sounds like that on the Scania 4-series. The 3-series starters didn't "whine" when engaged I thought