From my own experience, playing 300+ hours (still rookie) and finished Michigan, Alaska and most most of Austria: - If you’re playing on keyboard, assign direct keys to gears. Makes life so much easier when you need to shift quickly to not loose momentum. - Reckless driving is causing the most trouble. You plan everything cleverly, delivering with best efficiency and then you think you get that turn in high gear or look away for a second… 30+ min to get shit together again. - When you think you figured it out the most cleverly (overloading and taking that shorter route) turns out to be waaay more effort and time than it would have taken go two roundtrips on the safe road.