Freight Fate 1.9 tester snapshot 2026-10-10

A preview of the next release, with the newest features and some rough edges. Back up your saves before you install it.

Changes since the previous snapshot

Added

• On busy freeways, traffic now comes up beside you and passes.
• The Radio app can suggest a station that is missing from the dial. Accepted stations join every driver's dial, and AM and FM ones play near home.
• Text fields now paste with Control V, and name punctuation as you type it. A colon or slash is spoken as a word instead of a silent click.

Changed

• Update checks, the bug report page and the manual download link now go to the game's new GitHub home, orinks-games.
• A slow vehicle ahead in your lane is now called at half a mile, when you start to hear it.
• The distant interstate traffic is now a steady roar.
• A slow vehicle ahead in your lane can now be heard from half a mile away.
• A slower vehicle ahead now plays the slowing-traffic sound, not a passing sound.

Fixed

• Been Everywhere, For Real now needs all sixteen regions on the map, not fourteen.
• Grossed Out at the Scale House can now be earned. It needs a load within a ton of the legal limit; dispatch never offered the old 24 tons.
• The Route 66 and redwood badges count the newer towns on the map, like Joplin, Gallup and Kingman on the Mother Road, and Eureka in the redwoods.
• Menus accept Enter, Space, and letters from braille notetakers and automation tools. Like the BrailleNote Evolve, they could arrow but not select.
• Traffic is now loud enough to hear over the engine, from about a quarter mile away.
• Passing traffic now sounds where the vehicle really is. It comes up on its own side, then fades as it pulls ahead.
• The clock no longer sticks at real time after a slow merge. Changing Driving mode while moving now waits until you stop, and says so.

Freight Fate 1.9 tester snapshot 2026-10-09

A preview of the next release, with the newest features and some rough edges. Back up your saves before you install it.

Changes since the previous snapshot

Added

• Interstates now have the sound of distant traffic, louder on busier stretches.
• The radio status screen says where your own playlist files go until you have one on the dial.
• A fuel range warning speaks when your fuel will not reach the next fuel stop. It names your range and how far the stop is.

Changed

• Tire noise on the road is louder at highway speed.
• The fuel range now comes from your truck's own mileage on this drive, load and hills included.
• The Engine voice and Engine brake voice settings are now called Engine sound and Engine brake sound.

Fixed

• Bobtail to a nearby city is refused while your CDL is suspended or disqualified. You hear when the suspension ends instead.
• Passing traffic now sounds where the vehicle really is. You hear it come up beside you, then fade as it pulls ahead.
• Traffic sounds on exit ramps now match the cars. The freeway fades off to your left, and cross traffic at the ramp end sweeps across in front of you.
• The update check no longer offers a preview snapshot that is the same as your copy.
• What's new, when updating from an older preview snapshot, now lists every change since your copy.

Freight Fate 1.9 tester snapshot 2026-10-08

Preview snapshot for players who want the newest features before the next stable release. Expect rough edges; your save files stay compatible whenever possible, but back them up first.

Changes since the previous snapshot

Fixed

• Sitting through a training course now tires you, about half as fast as driving. A multi-day course counts only its last daytime class day.
• A course that leaves you drowsy now tells you to sleep before driving. Night classes are judged by the city's local clock.
• The last weigh station warning names its scale and leaves time to take the exit in every driving mode. Closed scales say so.
• Driving into Memphis from St. Louis no longer passes a weigh station that is not there. The West Memphis scale is westbound I-40 only.
• The clock no longer sticks at real time after a slow merge. Changing Driving mode while moving now says it waits until you stop.
• West Memphis stops sit where they really are. The Riverside scale is past the bridge, and the Petro and Love's are at exit 280.
• Creeping up to an open scale, then speeding past, no longer dodges the bypass charge. Only a warning the game delayed excuses you.
• A closed weigh station's check-in just says it is closed. It no longer chimes, saves, or counts as an inspection.
• Arriving at a closed weigh station says its name once.
• The state line on the St. Louis to Memphis drive now says I-40, over the Hernando de Soto Bridge.
• Two real Arkansas weigh stations near West Memphis are on the map. Marion screens southbound I-55, Lehi eastbound I-40.
• A hazard after the last weigh station warning no longer costs you the bypass charge. Time spent on the hazard does not count against you.

Freight Fate 1.9.3

Added

• LWorks Radio is on the dial. Upbeat hits from the nineties and two thousands, with an eighties lunch hour, wherever you drive.

Fixed

• The load you sleep for after an hours warning stays on the dispatch board. It used to vanish when the rest ran past midnight.
• On a three-lane road, a hazard call names the lane you can move into. From the right lane it now says middle lane open, matching the lane change.
• Roadside billboards end with a single period. Some used to end with two, which a screen reader could read as dot dot.

Freight Fate 1.9 tester snapshot 2026-10-07

Preview snapshot for players who want the newest features before the next stable release. Expect rough edges; your save files stay compatible whenever possible, but back them up first.

Changes since the previous snapshot

• No user-facing changes

Freight Fate 1.9.2

Added

• The truck warns you once when fuel drops to about 15 percent. It speaks again only after you refill above that line and the tank drops again.

Fixed

• The Roadhouse no longer keeps restarting around dusk and dawn outside Eastern time. It now changes between its day and night music by the local clock.
• Rush-hour traffic follows the local clock. West of Eastern time, jams and the words rush hour now come at the local rush, not hours early.
• Mac launch no longer freezes waiting on the keychain. After a newly signed build, macOS can ask before handing over a saved online token; the game now waits a few seconds, then continues and says so, instead of sitting unresponsive with a log that stops after "world".

Freight Fate 1.9.1

Fixed

• The update check no longer offers the version you already have, and the welcome no longer says development build.

Freight Fate 1.9.0

Compatibility

• Careers from 1.8 and earlier do not carry over; every driver starts a new career. Old saves stay listed, untouched and playable in 1.8.
• Your settings come across from 1.8.
• Freight Fate runs on Windows, Apple Silicon Macs and Linux. Linux comes for x64 or ARM64, as an archive or an AppImage.
• On Linux, speech uses the Speech Dispatcher installed on your computer. Without it the game still starts, but stays silent.

Highlights

• Freight Fate is rebuilt from the ground up, and starts noticeably faster.
• The biggest map yet: 100 new cities, real speed limits coast to coast, and real streets into hundreds of facilities.
• Highways drive like highways. Real lanes, exit ramps at their real lengths, deceleration lanes, ramp-end lights and cross traffic at the bar.
• A co-driver reads the road. Spoken curve calls, steep-grade warnings and speed-limit drops, with bends that can move your load or roll the truck.
• Choose how much the truck does for you. The game asks once: All assists, Balanced or Realistic.
• The road has rules and someone enforcing them. Troopers, roadside inspections, real weigh stations, and a driving record your carrier and insurer read.
• The radio is a real dial. Thousands of real stations, dozens of new original songs, your own playlists, and Synthesized music the game makes itself.
• The truck sounds like a real truck. A three-stage engine brake, real brakes and gear changes, and traffic that sounds like what it is.
• Weather and seasons matter. Snow chains and chain laws on the western grades, winter tires and hydroplaning.
• Truck stops sell more than fuel. Meals, showers, repairs, loyalty points, live parking counts and CAT scales.

New features

• Each truck keeps its own condition. Worn brakes, tires or engine can put it out of service, so walk around it before you pull out.
• Your freight can be damaged, and the receiver can refuse it. Tank loads slosh, and hard bends and stops show it.
• Drop and hook, detention pay, and receivers with a drop yard.
• Hours of service has its own keys. T plans your next sleep stop, and opt-in hints name a comfortable break.
• Cruise reads the road ahead. It drives the hill before it arrives, has a resume button, and adaptive cruise slows for bad weather.
• You can choose how much room the truck leaves to the vehicle ahead.
• Latch the brake and give your hands a rest. Turn it off under Settings, Driving assistance, Latching brake.
• Hold slash to straighten up. With lane keeping on partial or off, the truck points down the road.
• Alt T switches between automatic and manual shifting on the road.
• You can change which key or controller button each driving control uses. F2 lists every driving command by name.
• Learn game sounds plays what every sound means before you meet it at speed.
• Comma and period review your recent spoken messages while you drive. Comma re-reads the last line anywhere in the game.
• You can play from a braille display with speech off. Driving readouts are short enough to fit one.
• Driving keys work with JAWS without the pass-through key. Settings, Speech has a JAWS arrow keys row when JAWS is running.
• Live road reports, real construction zones and live truck parking cover most of the map.
• The pumps charge this week's real diesel price.
• Real time joins the Driving mode row. The game clock follows your computer's.
• Licenses and training replaces the endorsement menu. Train out of the automatic-only restriction, and add steel and lumber to flatbed securement.
• You can stay a company driver, and owner-operators can go back to company driving. Owner-operators start with a brand-new truck.
• Dispatch picks the truck to fit the load, and relays one from a nearby town when your board is thin.
• Online, you choose which career is public. A driver directory sits next to Drivers on duty, and profiles say what each achievement was for.
• Dozens of new achievements, browsed by category. Careers that reach level 21 get a menu theme of their own.
• The driver tablet has a Radio app. Search the dial, tune by name, and save favorites with O.
• Music source can be set to Synthesized. A music seed changes every piece, and the original 1.5 soundtrack is back.
• About three thousand new billboards, state welcome signs, and real roadside attractions where they really stand.

Fixes

• A stalled or damaged update download is never installed. Escape leaves the download at once.
• Closing the game hands your screen reader back right away. A stuck screen reader can no longer freeze the game.
• Speech comes back on its own when a voice locks up mid-drive.
• Safety calls, hazard instructions, turn calls and exit calls are never lost or talked over.
• Automatic braking stops the truck in time, even on hot or worn brakes.
• The assists no longer run your air tanks dry by pumping the brakes.
• Hills and bends match the real road, and interstate curve warnings are rare.
• Exits, state lines and rivers are announced where the truck really is.
• Every stop the game announces is one your truck can enter. Convenience stores no longer pose as truck stops.
• Town speed limits no longer follow you out of town, and a lower limit is always announced in time.
• Checking in at a weigh station no longer gets you fined for bypassing it.
• A dead radio stream lands on a live station instead of silence.
• A damaged settings file or sound file no longer takes the game down.

Changes

• New installs start on All assists. Switch to Balanced or Realistic under Driving assistance.
• Spoken lines are shorter everywhere. Quiet and Urgent only leave out traffic chatter, and a key you press always answers.
• The game stops repeating key prompts you have mastered, and Escape acts instead of explaining.
• The radio dial moved to Page Down and Page Up.
• Four keys answer one question each about where you are. R now answers just "where am I".
• Fines match what they cost a real trucker, and your driving record costs you with the carrier and the insurer.
• Company drivers no longer see the truck dealer, upgrades or tire choice. The carrier handles the truck.
• Pausing no longer takes you off duty.
• Every music track and radio segment plays at the same loudness.
• The Mac app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without the Open Anyway step.
• The driving school steps out of this release to finish training.
• Lane centering assistance is gone from Driving assistance. Lane keeping on full already holds the lane.

Complete change list

Every change in this release is listed in the full Freight Fate 1.9.0 changelog, on GitHub and as CHANGELOG.md in your game folder.

Freight Fate 1.9 tester snapshot 2026-10-04

Preview snapshot for players who want the newest features before the next stable release. Expect rough edges; your save files stay compatible whenever possible, but back them up first.

Changes since the previous snapshot

Added

• F2 lists every driving command by name. Pick one and it runs as its key would, then you are back on the road.

Changed

• The Mac app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without the Open Anyway step.
• Quiet and Urgent only driving speech no longer call out traffic. Slow cars ahead, cruise settling in behind them and lane keeping passing are spoken only on Standard.
• Anything Quiet or Urgent only leaves out now makes no sound. The stand-in notes and the notification tones of silenced lines are gone.
• Quiet driving speech says cruise, speed keeper, work zone and collision updates in a few words. For example, Cruise easing to 50.
• Urgent only no longer announces achievements while you drive. They wait in message review.
• Urgent only no longer speaks CB reports, toll heads-ups or traffic packs. Lane closures and the directions you must act on still speak.

Fixed

• Urgent only now says when a work zone turns adaptive cruise off. It used to let go of the pedals without a word.
• Quiet speaks every truck stop heads-up in its short form. One that had to wait was read out in full.

Freight Fate 1.9 tester snapshot 2026-10-03

Preview snapshot for players who want the newest features before the next stable release. Expect rough edges; your save files stay compatible whenever possible, but back them up first.

Changes since the previous snapshot

Added

• Truckers Radio USA sounds better. It now plays the station's full-quality stream under Web radio.
• The Terrestrial dial has 156 more music stations. Country, rock, hits, hip-hop and Spanish stations across 35 states.
• Six AFN 360 channels are back on the dial for players outside the United States. AFN blocks them inside the US, so they won't play there.

Changed

• Radio stations whose name already includes the call sign say it once. Tuning now says "KXLU 88.9", not "KXLU, KXLU 88.9".
• Careers from 1.9 test builds load unchanged: your current wear settles onto every truck you own.

Fixed

• On a Mac, the game no longer freezes at launch asking to control VoiceOver. VoiceOver also speaks the first screen now. (Reported by Jason)
• Radio stations that were silent, gone, listed twice or playing a different station are fixed or off the dial. Stations that moved play from their new address.
• Your Discord status keeps up on long sessions. If Discord turns down an update, the game reconnects and sends it again instead of leaving the old status showing.
• A truck parked with the radio on now leaves the live drivers board after half an hour. A new song no longer counts as driving.
• The game keeps answering your computer while it closes, after an update too, and finishes its last sentence first. macOS no longer reports it as not responding.
• A stalled update no longer freezes the download screen. After a quiet minute the game says so and names where to download it yourself.
• Escape now leaves an update download at once, and the game says when it is unpacking.
• An update download that arrives damaged is no longer installed. The game says so and keeps the version you have.
• On a Mac, Report a problem names the folder that really holds your game log.
• More route cues match the roads trucks drive. Repaired checkpoints, river callouts and signs follow their routes; scenic stretches keep billboards quiet.

Compatibility

• Careers from 1.8 and earlier do not carry over; every driver starts a new career. Old saves stay listed, untouched and playable in 1.8.