# Trucker Tycoon — Truck driver to freight empire > Truck driver to freight empire (iPhone/iPad app by JOSEPH TYLER ANTOSHAK.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/trucker-tycoon/id6818798064 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [JOSEPH TYLER ANTOSHAK](https://appshunter.io/developer/6818798066) - Category: Games, Simulation, Strategy - Price: Free - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 16.4 · 39 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-10-27 - Data updated: 2026-10-29 ## What is Trucker Tycoon? One trucking career, played a week at a time. Get your CDL and drive for a carrier. After six months behind the wheel, you can buy a truck and file for your own authority. Hire drivers, and the company can grow from one truck to a network of terminals. Then sell it or take it public. Each week you pick loads to real US cities off the load board, with hours, miles, Energy and pay across the top. Run the week, and the settlement comes back like a pay stub. WHERE YOU START Pick one of five backgrounds, from broke at 21 with four hundred dollars to a career changer at 34. Home is one of 28 US cities. Pay for CDL school, or let a carrier pay and take it back out of your checks over a year. Four carriers hire, and the better-paying ones want experience first. THE WEEK Energy is how much driving you have in you this week. Loads spend it, and weeks away from home wear it down. Ask for more than you have and the load gets refused. Hours of service apply to your own driving: a 70-hour cycle, dock time included. Some weeks a question waits for you, like a fan belt letting go or a broker paying short. The week won't run until you answer it. YOUR OWN TRUCK At 26 weeks of experience the lot opens: three used trucks a week and two new ones at the dealer. Pay cash or sign a 260-week note, with the down payment and rate set by your credit. A carrier's lease-purchase is the other way in. Then the settlement fills up with fuel, tires, tolls, insurance and the note split into interest and principal. YOUR OWN AUTHORITY File for it and get an MC number in two to three weeks, or lease on to a carrier and run under theirs. Brokers pay in 30 to 45 days. Get paid early for a 2% fee, or sell your invoices to a factor. A line of credit opens at a credit score of 650. Once you run under your own number, roadside inspections go on your safety record. Let it slide and a warning letter comes first. The last step is being ordered out of service. THE FLEET Pull a driver's MVR before you hand them a truck. Hire office staff and step out of the cab. A fleet takes its share of your Energy before you plan the week. The yard holds 250 trucks. Past that you open terminals, and past 500 they become a network that can grow into the tens of thousands. In time, a fleet of two or more can put trucks on a driverless provider. Setbacks across the industry can delay it or ground the trucks. THE MARKET Freight runs in cycles that move rates and used-truck prices. No screen tells you where in the cycle you are. Seven trade-press outlets cover the market. They are not all right, and none of them tells you which. You are ranked by trucks against the whole industry, and by margin against a roster of rival carriers. HOW IT ENDS Bankruptcy closes the company. A carrier will hire you, and the career goes on. Once the last year's earnings pass a million dollars, a buyer calls. Sell and retire, or sell and keep going if you're under 65. Reach 400 trucks with those earnings, two years of books, four quarters in the black and a year without a warning letter, and a bank will take it public. Once it's listed, retire on the shares or take it private. THE REST The cities and interstates are real. The carriers, the truck makes and the trade press were invented for the game. A career record keeps where the freight went, and the whole run fits on one card. Three save slots. There is no account to make, and there are no ads or in-app purchases. Saves stay on your device. Play data goes out only if you say yes, with no name and nothing you type. ## Is Trucker Tycoon safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Trucker Tycoon. ## Is Trucker Tycoon legit? Trucker Tycoon has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Trucker Tycoon is 50 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 1 release) ### 1.0.0 — 2026-10-27 No release notes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-10-29.*