Roadcrew Ford F350 improvements

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Suggestion Title: Roadcrew Ford F350 improvements
Suggestion Description: I've pulled through from Apprentice to Technician for 1-2 hours yesterday and I noticed some issues with the F350 that make it a bit worse compared to the old roadcrew truck. It's not entirely a bad thing but it is something that people need to be careful with when taking the job especially new players so I hope it can see some improvement to a great new vehicle that we received.

What I've noticed is that the Ford F350 has a very shaky chasis. It jiggles a lot (like pudding) to the left and right when not towing a car, when towing any vehicle this can become worse if you don't account for lag+speed+turning radius+weight of the car you're towing+your chasis jumping all over the place.

Increasing the towing strength should also be considered because for some reason a Ford F150 Raptor absolutely destroyed my towing truck and capped my speed to 10-15MPH and gave it no more acceleration. Other similarly heavy vehicles like a Tesla Model S doesn't seem to do this but it does seem about 400kg lighter to be fair. The old roadcrew truck pulled through these with ease if I remember right.
The F350 looks more like a medium duty towing truck which seems to be able to pull 6 through 16 tons depending on the configuration of a actual F350.

If possible I'd also like to see an increase in brake strength (or the handbrake) when towing cars from a stand still. The tow truck likes to pull itself towards vehicles instead of pulling the vehicle to itself which should make cliff rescues more feasible.

Why should this be added?:
- Turn the F350 into an even better towing truck.
- More stable vehicle=safer (I hope).
- Less frustration when towing heavy vehicles or when intending to do rescues from e.g. cliffsides or tricky terrain.

What negatives could this have?:
- New players can absolutely plow through cars with ease thanks to the new strength they acquired.
- The F350 somehow finds a way to flip out the physics engine and kill everyone in its path.

What problem would this suggestion solve?: I've described everything I could in the "Suggestion Description" so I'm not going to copy paste everything into here again but tl;dr:
-Reduce chasis shake as it feels like pudding.
- Increase tow strength and/or weight of the roadcrew truck.
- Make it so the hook pulls the car towards the roadcrew truck instead of the other way around when in a standstill+handbrake is engaged.
 
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I have driven the F350 for a while and it's tough to mitigate the jiggling effect due to the way it's setup for towing

But i've not experienced any adverse driving effects from it - I think just drive to the conditions - Can you think of any particular vehicles that have problems with this?

The handbrake is an issue I agree
 


Unfortunately, this is not a easy fix, we spent a very long time getting it to the current state, due to how the current tow system functions, this is the best for now.

Reworking the towing system will be the overall fix for this as all the issues fall back to the system at the moment.


We will revisit this down the line. (sorry)
 
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