Vehicle not loading cargo?

Cannot be loaded or cannot be unloaded?

• A cargo type cannot be loaded anywhere: inspect the selected product at the pickup stop in Line Manager, the vehicle’s displayed capability, and whether that stop actually reaches an industry or warehouse with the product. A compatible model does not create missing supply.
• A cargo type cannot be unloaded anywhere: inspect whether a later stop reaches a consumer requiring that product or a connected warehouse configured to accept it. A platform alone is not cargo storage. Check the receiving connection and filter, then available receiving space.
• The vehicle reaches the destination but retains cargo: open that destination occurrence in Line Manager and check its loading selection and capacity target. In a resolved September 29 plank-delivery case, the player had selected pickup at the destination. Retention can also be deliberate on a multi-stop distribution line; keep that distinction when changing settings.
• The product is Fish on a ship-to-truck route: use the specific fish-unloading checklist. Its warehouse and loading-direction cases do not prove a single repair for every cargo warning.

After a change, follow one pickup and delivery. Success means the receiving stock or consumer gains the intended product, not merely that the warning disappears. If the receiver accepts the product but no delivery occurs, preserve the stop configuration and build for a bug report.

Cargo categories: developer examples

These are the examples Urban Games gives, not a complete list of every cargo or vehicle in the release build.

Check an empty vehicle in order

1. Confirm a load exists at the origin. Inspect the producing industry, not just the platform. In TF3, produced cargo waits at the industry until collected. If no cargo is waiting, use the industry pickup check first.
2. Identify the cargo category. Match the goods you intend to collect to the vehicle's supported cargo types. A specialized liquid, bulk, flatbed or goods vehicle cannot take a different category; a universal vehicle is the flexible test option.
3. Check the pickup point. Send the compatible vehicle to the industry's integrated dock, or to an added station within the industry's catchment. If you fitted a specialized loading module, make sure it matches the cargo category too.
4. Run one pickup and inspect the load. Watch the waiting amount at the producer and the cargo shown on the vehicle. The developer describes overlays for waiting and in-transit cargo.

What success looks like

The assigned vehicle leaves the pickup carrying the intended cargo, and the producer's waiting stock falls. That confirms the first loading step. It does not yet prove a later warehouse handoff or delivery worked.

If it still stays empty

• Wrong or unknown vehicle capability: test the route with a universal cargo vehicle, then replace it with a suitable specialized vehicle if speed matters.
• Compatible vehicle but no load: recheck the origin's waiting stock, actual loading stop and catchment in the empty-station guide.
• Vehicle loads, next line does not: the category check has passed. Follow the warehouse handoff; ports and platforms are not line-to-line storage.
• Fish ship to truck specifically: also check the ship's loading direction in the fish transfer example.

Urban Games has not published a complete model-by-model cargo list or final-build menu path in this source. Check the displayed capability of the vehicle you actually use.