The work of it is moving something the size of a house through a tiny gate, inching it around the mini-maze of an industrial parking lot or trying not to drift over the line of a rake-thin road in a pisspot town.
But it also has a lot of narrow, winding roads with railings or rocky scrubland either side, and these are not routes that one would ideally want to drive an 18-wheeler through. Arizona, home to the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley, is the closest that the roads of real America comes to the roads of filmic America, and I can say from experience (a pair of family holidays doing the West Coast flydrive in my teens) that it really does have roads like that. The American truck dream is wide, straight freeways bounded by canyons and redwood forests, and topped by vast blue skies.
Also, there is a canyon which I suspect one could safely describe as 'grand.'
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The Arizona DLC, a substantial free add-on due whose open beta is due for launch today, brings the expected dramatic scenery, but also increases some of that hard work - in interesting ways. I've rhapsodised in the past about American Truck Simulator 's many moments of zen, but I confess that I may be guilty of glossing over its many moments of hard, thankless work too.