New generation of Prism3D engine is used, with a lot of improvements and total overwrites of several areas.
The game world covers continental US from coast to coast, and several locations in Canada and Mexico.
One big map is available in the game. The map is quite bigger than the one in Across America.
The number of cities has increased as well as the mesh of connecting roads, and the resulting world is really huge.
The number of truck tractors is going to be higher than in Across America, and the number of trailers is going to be a lot higher for even bigger variety of cargo which you can haul.
The improved world editor is once again a part of the game’s executable.
Police AI and car AI is rewritten.
New physics and collision system is rewritten.
The handling of the trucks has been completely redone for the new game.
You can be an employee driving for another company, and the AI boss would command you around. You can become independent owner-operator in control of your fortune, and you can also progress to become an owner of your own big trucking business with other drivers working for you.
Sleeping time come back but only as an option to switch on/off based on the player’s preferences, just as several other simulation features that can be toggled on and off.
Vast majority of the elements in the environment is rebuilt from scratch, so you can indeed expect to run into a whole lot of new things.