All routes work off a garage being nearby on the route, not necessarily one of my own, but one that is most conveniently placed. Even trucks that only distribute supplies and goods carry some money so they can afford to repair the trucks when needed. They tend to use “pick up until X” so they don’t end up hoarding money.
Gambling
This route makes sure that a number of different gambling houses have enough money to operate, plus moves any excess to the safe house to keep that topped up.
This is the longest of three auto routes in New York that ensure my gambling operations are topped up. The other two are currently 11 and 9 steps respectively. The driver is in a two-door passenger car, carrying a billy club for protection just in case.
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- River Metal Co. (Corner Speakeasy)
Pick up: up to $3500 - Schmidt Storage (Upgraded Truck Repair Bay)
Repair your vehicle - Small Gambling House, Orchid & Lake
Drop off: until location has $5500 - Small Gambling House, Orchid & Lake
Pick up: all but $5500 (requires $4000) - Small Gambling House, Flower & Sunset
Drop off: until location has $4500 - Small Gambling House, Flower & Sunset
Pick up: all but $4500 (requires $3250) - Medium Gambling House, Orchid & River
Drop off: until location has $6000 - Medium Gambling House, Orchid & River
Pick up: all but $6000 (requires $4500) - Small Gambling House, Orchid & Division
Drop off: until location has $5000 - Small Gambling House, Orchid & Division
Pick up: all but $5000 (requires $3500) - Small Gambling House, Magnolia & Park
Drop off: until location has $5500 - Small Gambling House, Magnolia & Park
Pick up: all but $5500 (requires $4250) - Small Gambling House, Sunflower & Pleasant
Drop off: until location has $5500 - Small Gambling House, Sunflower & Pleasant
Pick up: all but $5500 (requires $4250) - Small Gambling House, Magnolia & View
Drop off: until location has $4000 - Small Gambling House, Magnolia & View
Pick up: all but $4000 (requires $3000) - Morelli’s Italian Deli (safe house)
Drop off: all available cash
The line on the left hand side is the speakeasy (top) and the repair bay (bottom). The point on the right of the speakeasy is the safe house.
Fronts
This is one of 14 auto routes in New York that collect form or support my fronts. The one with the least amount of stops currently has 12, the longest 26. The driver is in a two-door passenger car, carrying a billy club for protection just in case.
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- Eleanor’s Expert Tire & Break Service
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Elaine’s Auto Body Shop
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Franklin’s American Book Emporium
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Parkside Tobacco Co.
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Station Cigar & Cigarette Shop
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - HZP Corp
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Accurate Service Centre
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - V & F Cafeteria
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Galli’s American Coffee Shop
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - U & L Lumber Company
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Mitchell’s
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Schmidt Storage (Upgraded Truck Repair Bay)
Repair your vehicle - Schmidt Storage (Upgraded Truck Repair Bay)
Drop off: all but $100
The first stops on the route won’t need topping up, but carrying $100 at the start of it means that there’s some spare just in case. The truck repair bay is the point furthest to the right on the map.
Fronts with bottle returns
For this one we’re going to Detroit, where I decided to collect on bottle returns at the same time as picking up money from the fronts, because since you don’t put the bottles in the car anyway, it made sense to combine them – and not every front is a return rack. Driver’s in a two-door passenger car with a billy club. There are currently five fronts routes, but only two of them have fronts with return racks … for now.
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- Henderson Wood Products
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Henderson Wood Products
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - Prairie Hardware Store
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Zosia’s Corner
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Firmo Stonework and Masonry
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Morse Wood Products
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Morse Wood Products
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - Martin’s Midtown Deli
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Cafe Capricorn
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Cafe Capricorn
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - Murphy Bros., Cold Warehouse
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Murphy Bros., Cold Warehouse
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - The Yellow Plate
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - The Yellow Plate
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - Red Wheel Pastry Shop
Collect from or support your front: agreed amount, if ready - Detroit Junkyard
Repair your vehicle - Local Snooker & Billiards (safe house)
Drop off: all but $200
I don’t currently have a distribution set up for the small bottles (I’ve only recently had enough buildings to get more T2 operations going), but the safe house is an Improved Fruit Wine Operation, which uses small bottles.
Bottle returns
You can, of course, also have front collections and bottle return collection routes be completely separate. This one’s in Philadelphia, a little two-door passenger car that drives around and tells fronts to drop the returned bottles back to the safe house.
The real reason why this route is completely separate is because I originally thought it required picking the bottles up in your vehicle, and didn’t want a front collector getting delayed from having to distribute bottles. Then I discovered that wasn’t the case, and had to re-think the whole thing, resulting in this route.
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- Cafe Oslo (Corner Speakeasy)
Pick up: until vehicle has $50 - Boulevard Grocery
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - Russell’s Flowers
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - The Green Counter
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - Rada’s Auto Service
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - Pittsburgh Nickel Metal Co.
Repair your vehicle - Richardson’s American Market
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - Dixon’s Candies
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - Lillian’s Corner
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - Františka’s Tobacconist
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - Nancy’s Soda Fountain
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - Bagley’s
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - Cafe Gemini
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - The Orange Spoon
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready - Smith Sawmills
Collect at a bottle return: agreed amount, if ready
Because all bottle returns on this route automatically get delivered to the safe house, there’s also distribution route (scroll down).
Buying
This is one of four auto routes in Chicago that goes around buying crocks to supply four improved T1 operations. The driver is in a small delivery truck, but carries no weapon so they can carry the maximum amount of goods.
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- River Junkyard (Dance Hall)
Pick up: until vehicle has $500 - Illinois Scrapyard
Repair your vehicle - Mohamed Brothers
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Otto’s Auto Repair
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Local Auto Repair
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Cafe Stockholm
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Ludovica’s Tea Store
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Lawrence’s Snack Spot (Improved Backroom Distillery)
Drop off: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Lily Tea Store
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - King’s Bake Shop
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Accurate Auto Body Shop
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Mitchell Bricklayers
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Cafe Virgo
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Cafe Pieces
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Chrysanthemum Coffee & Tea Shop
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Lawrence’s Snack Spot (Improved Backroom Distillery)
Drop off: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible
As you can see, the driver drops off crocks twice on this route to maximise number of crocks it can buy. If the truck fills up straight away, there’s a chance for it to drop off and on the next turn get to the ones further down the list before dropping the next batch off. The crocks are dropped in a distillery that doesn’t operate all the time, but is in a convenient spot for distributing the crocks to the four T1 alcohol operations nearby.
Buying and distributing
“Can you not buy and drop off at the same time?” Oh, absolutely! Welcome to Detroit, where a small delivery truck is doing exactly that.
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- MXZ Corp (Corner Speakeasy)
Pick up: until vehicle has $1000 - Midtown Tea Shop
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Gross Painting Co.
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Cafe Moscow
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Central Fruit Shop
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Local Coffee & Tea Shop
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Detroit Junkyard
Repair your vehicle - Michigan Creamery (Improved Cider Operation)
Drop off: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Edward’s Coffee Shop
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Corner Tea Room
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Michigan Moving & Storage Co.
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Hazel’s Performance Auto Body Shop
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Reliable Auto Repair
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - O’Connor’s Painters
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Union Painting and Construction
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Boulevard Painting and Construction (Improved Backroom Wine Operation)
Drop off: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Pierce 5¢ and 10¢ store
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Harvey’s American Bakery
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Parkside Cafe
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Krisztina’s Coffee & Tea Store
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - O’Sullivan Company
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Red Wheel Pastry Shop
Buy: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Thomas’s Corner (Improved Home Brew Operation)
Drop off: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible
This route doesn’t currently include a Moonshine Operation, because I have only just got the Moonshine op online – for a very long time there was a severe neutral alcohol supply issue! It also runs the risk of overstocking the operations, so I will change this route to drop off the crocks to a central distribution point instead – see below.
Distribution
Having separate routes for buying and distributing means you can pause either one if you need to, so it gives you a bit more control. It also means you could technically focus someone on only buying (e.g.) bottles, and have a really long route with several drop-offs.
Supplies to operations
This is one of currently two (?!) auto routes in Chicago that distributes crocks to supply four improved T1 operations. The driver is in a small delivery truck, but carries no weapon so they can carry the maximum amount of goods.
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- Else’s Coffee & Tea Store (Corner Speakeasy)
Pick up: until vehicle has $100 - Lawrence’s Snack Spot (Improved Backroom Distillery)
Pick up: Stoneware Crocks, as much as possible - Associated Stations, Inc. (Improved Cider Operation)
Drop off: Stoneware Crocks, until location has 256 crocks - Brigitte’s Cafeteria (Improved Moonshine Operation)
Drop off: Stoneware Crocks, until location has 160 crocks - Atlas Scrapyard
Repair your vehicle - Samuel’s Lumber Co. (Improved Backroom Wine Operation)
Drop off: Stoneware Crocks, until location has 256 crocks - Dietrich Warehouse & Storage (Improved Home Brew Operation)
Drop off: Stoneware Crocks, until location has 320 crocks
This route distributes the crocks bought in the buying route example. It used to be drop off X quantity of crocks, but because the route is so short it meant that the operations got so overstocked I had to temporarily stop it and manually remove some crocks back to storage so the operations could run.
The topic of how to best distribute things came up on Discord and it was suggested having the drop off be “until location has X” instead, which prevents the operations overstocking, so I’ve changed all drop-offs to supply up to a maximum of four production cycles worth of crocks. Even if that means the driver has to run on empty for a few runs, that’s fine, because at least I don’t have to worry about it.
Distributing supplies from return racks
This works exactly the same as above, but this particular route for a pickup truck in Pittsburgh is picking up and dropping off at a deliberately slower pace because there’s not a lot of places to drop them off and I didn’t want the safe house to run out of small bottles too quickly, or risk overstocking the operations.
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- Anne’s Polish Meat Counter (safe house)
Pick up: until vehicle has $50 - Anne’s Polish Meat Counter (safe house)
Pick up: Small Bottles, up to 20 cases - Lily Dairy (Bathtub Gin Still)
Drop off: Small Bottles, up to 20 cases - Anne’s Polish Meat Counter (safe house)
Pick up: Small Bottles, up to 40 cases - PR’s Barber Shop (Upgraded Rakija Still)
Drop off: Small Bottles, up to 20 cases - Valley’s Soda Fountain (Improved Applejack Operation)
Drop off: Small Bottles, up to 20 cases - Anne’s Polish Meat Counter (safe house)
Pick up: Small Bottles, up to 40 cases - Lakeside’s Soda Fountain (Backroom Brewery)
Drop off: Small Bottles, up to 20 cases - Weber’s Tools (Sparkling Cider Fermenter)
Drop off: Small Bottles, up to 20 cases - Pittsburgh Nickel Metal Co. (Upgraded Truck Repair Bay)
Repair your vehicle
Is this the most efficient way of distributing small bottles from a return rack? Probably not, no, but I was new to both return racks and supply drop routes when I set this up.
Keeping speakeasies stocked up
This is one of currently two auto routes in Chicago that distributes T3 bottles to supply four Supper Clubs and higher. The driver is in a small delivery truck, but carries no weapon so they can carry the maximum amount of goods.
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- Midtown Coffee & Tea Shop (Storage Expansion)
Pick up: Bottled Brandy, until vehicle has 15 cases - Midtown Coffee & Tea Shop (Storage Expansion)
Pick up: Bottled Rum, until vehicle has 15 cases - Midtown Coffee & Tea Shop (Storage Expansion)
Pick up: Bottled Vodka, until vehicle has 15 cases - Midtown Coffee & Tea Shop (Storage Expansion)
Pick up: Bottled Whiskey, until vehicle has 15 cases - River Junkyard (Dance Hall)
Drop off: Bottled Brandy, as much as possible - River Junkyard (Dance Hall)
Drop off: Bottled Rum, as much as possible - River Junkyard (Dance Hall)
Drop off: Bottled Vodka, as much as possible - River Junkyard (Dance Hall)
Drop off: Bottled Whiskey, as much as possible - River Junkyard (Dance Hall)
Pick up: until vehicle has $50 - Illinois Scrapyard
Repair your vehicle - Midtown Coffee & Tea Shop (Storage Expansion)
Pick up: Bottled Brandy, until vehicle has 15 cases - Midtown Coffee & Tea Shop (Storage Expansion)
Pick up: Bottled Rum, until vehicle has 15 cases - Midtown Coffee & Tea Shop (Storage Expansion)
Pick up: Bottled Vodka, until vehicle has 15 cases - Midtown Coffee & Tea Shop (Storage Expansion)
Pick up: Bottled Whiskey, until vehicle has 15 cases - Great Southern Junkyard (Jazz Club)
Drop off: Bottled Brandy, as much as possible - Great Southern Junkyard (Jazz Club)
Drop off: Bottled Rum, as much as possible - Great Southern Junkyard (Jazz Club)
Drop off: Bottled Vodka, as much as possible - Great Southern Junkyard (Jazz Club)
Drop off: Bottled Whiskey, as much as possible
This route relies on T3 bottles manually being moved from the nearby bottling plant (it’s on the corner above the point on the right) to a distribution point. From there, it picks up the maximum number of bottles it can, equal number of all four, and drops it off at the Dance Hall (left, bottom). Then it goes back and picks up the same thing again and drops them at the Jazz Club (bottom).
T2 and T4 are currently not included in the restocking, but will be added in the future.
Selling goods
I don’t currently have any of these, because all my booze tends to get sold in speaks, and there are a limited number of other things you can sell to businesses.