Euro Truck Simulator 2 Cheats: Console Commands, No Money Cheat

Euro Truck Simulator 2 has no cheat codes for money or experience. What it does have is SCS Software’s own developer console, which you switch on in config.cfg, and which can change the time and weather, switch off traffic and police fines, teleport a free camera, speed up or slow down the game and skip the fatigue rules. If you came for “ETS2 money cheat” or “level up fast”, the honest answer is further down: the console cannot give you either, and the game’s own loans and XP rules are the legitimate route. This guide is for single-player only, and it was checked against SCS’s modding wiki and the community wiki on November 11, 2026 (UTC), the day after the Iceland DLC launched.

Quick answer: ETS2 console commands

• Enable the console: open config.cfg in your game folder and set both g_console and g_developer to 1. Then press ~ in game, according to the SCS Modding Wiki.
• Money and XP: none of the SCS command or config-variable pages we read lists a command that adds either. The only income setting, g_income_factor, is documented with a maximum of 1.0, so it can lower your pay but not raise it.
• Useful commands: g_set_time, g_set_weather, g_traffic, g_police 0, g_fatigue, warp, goto, pause, save.
• Teleport your truck: goto moves a free camera, then Ctrl + F9 places your truck at the camera, per the SCS commands page.
• Back up first: copy your profile folder before experimenting. The SCS pages we read do not say whether console use affects achievements, so we do not claim either way.

How to enable the console in Euro Truck Simulator 2

SCS says every one of its games has a console, and it is off by default. The community Truck Simulator wiki lists where to find the game folder that holds config.cfg:

System	Game folder (per the community wiki)
Windows	DocumentsEuro Truck Simulator 2
macOS	~/Library/Application Support/Euro Truck Simulator 2
Linux	~/.local/share/Euro Truck Simulator 2/

1. Close the game and open config.cfg in a text editor.
2. Find uset g_developer and uset g_console and change each value from "0" to "1".
3. Save the file, start the game and load your profile.
4. Press ~ (the key under Esc on a US layout) to open the console, type a command and press Enter.

You only have to do this once. The community wiki also notes that on Windows 10 with a non-standard keyboard layout, such as Russian, the game may not see the ~ key. In that case it describes rebinding the console key in your profile’s controls.sii file (for example to F10), so back that file up before editing it.

Console shortcuts from the SCS page: Page Up / Page Down scroll the log, Shift or Ctrl with them scrolls faster or slower, and Ctrl + Shift switches between showing only errors and warnings or everything. The community wiki adds that the arrow keys recall earlier commands.

ETS2 console commands: full table

Every row below comes from SCS’s console commands page, SCS’s configuration variables page or the community Console page, as marked. Both SCS pages carry a note that they are obsolete and incomplete, so a command that does nothing in your version may simply have changed. To read a variable’s current and default value, type just its name.

Command	What it does	Source
g_set_time <hours> [minutes] [remove_traffic]	Sets the game time. remove_traffic is 0 (no) or 1 (yes). The community wiki says it can only advance time.	SCS + community
g_set_weather <index> [i|f]	Weather index 0 is nice, 1 is bad. i changes it gradually, f forces it.	SCS
g_set_climate <name> [i|f]	Sets the climate, with the same i and f options.	SCS
g_traffic <value>	Traffic intensity: 0.0 turns traffic off, 10.0 is the maximum, default 1.0. The community wiki describes it as an on/off switch.	SCS + community
g_police 0	Turns off the police simulation. SCS says that with 0 “you will not get any penalties”. Default 1.	SCS
g_pedestrian <0|1>	Turns pedestrian generation off or on.	SCS
g_fatigue <0|1>	The state of the fatigue simulation. Default 1.	SCS
g_use_speed_limiter <0|1>	Whether the speed limiter is enabled. Default 1.	SCS
g_job_distance_limit <km>	Limits job generation to a range around you. A negative value means no limit.	SCS
warp <speed>	Changes the speed of the gameplay, from 0.0001 to 60.0. The community wiki gives 0.9 as 90 percent of normal speed.	SCS + community
pause	Pauses the game, same as F1 per the community wiki.	SCS + community
goto <x;y;z> or goto <city>	Moves the debug camera to a place. Press Ctrl + F9 to put your truck at the camera.	SCS
g_flyspeed <value>	Debug (free) camera fly speed. Default 100.	SCS
g_show_game_elements <0|1>	Hides or shows in-world activation points such as the box around a trailer.	SCS + community
g_fps 1 / g_minicon 1	Shows the FPS counter or the mini console.	SCS
g_disable_beacons <0|1|2>	An accessibility option for flashing beacons on AI vehicles. 1 disables the strobe spotlights, 2 also stops the flares blinking.	SCS
save	Forces a game save.	SCS
screenshot [name]	Takes a screenshot with an optional file name.	SCS
game / exit [reason]	Reload the current profile / leave it.	SCS + community
exec <file>	Runs a script file of commands from your game folder, for example one that takes a screenshot.	SCS
g_force_economy_reset 1	Forces an economy reset that generates new job listings. SCS says to be in free roam, then enter and leave the Profile Manager afterwards.	SCS

Example: to drive in daylight with no traffic, type g_set_time 12, then g_traffic 0. To get fines off for a quiet drive, type g_police 0, and g_police 1 turns them back on.

How to teleport and use the free camera

The community wiki says you open the free camera with the 0 key once the console is enabled, and it also switches on whenever you use goto. Per that page, Numpad 8, 4, 6 and 5 move forward, left, right and back, Numpad 9 and 3 move up and down, and the mouse wheel changes the flying speed. To move your truck, fly the camera where you want it and press Ctrl + F9. The community wiki adds that teleporting does not work in online jobs since update 1.22, which is one more reason to keep console use to single-player.

Is there an ETS2 money cheat?

No. We found no money command in any SCS page we read, and the one config variable about earnings only scales income down. Search results for “ETS2 money cheat” lean on trainers, memory editors and downloaded save profiles. We do not cover those: they edit the game from outside, can corrupt a profile, and are not something SCS documents. What the game itself gives you is a bank and an XP system, so here is how both work according to the community wiki.

Money: use the in-game bank

The community Bank page says you can take loans up to a 500,000 credit limit and that a loan is usually a good way to buy your first truck, because a truck earns more than freelancing. It lists the ETS2 loans below. That page was last edited in July 2021, so treat the numbers as a guide and check the amounts offered in your own Bank menu.

Loan (EUR)	Days	Interest (per year)	Daily installment
10,000	35	23%	290
50,000	35	20%	1,446
100,000	35	18%	2,888
400,000	70	12%	5,788

The same page warns that you can hold at most ten loans, and that once overdrawn you have three days to pay before the bank closes your garages except the headquarters and repossesses trucks. Finish your current job and avoid fines and accidents, which it says extend the overdraft time.

Experience: what actually earns XP

The community Experience Point page gives the rules. Last edited in January 2024, so confirm the figures in your version.

Source	XP
Base reward	1 XP per driven kilometer
Free roam (ETS2)	50 XP per 100 km
Long distance (over 250 km)	25% bonus
Urgent delivery	30% bonus
Fragile cargo	22% bonus
ADR cargo	21% bonus
Important delivery	20% bonus
High-value cargo	18% bonus

The page says the bonuses apply to the 1 XP per km base gain only, not to parking bonuses, and that late or damaged deliveries reduce your XP. It also says parking adds a bonus that depends on how hard the spot is. The community Levels page says each new level gives a skill point and new tuning parts, that the top level is 151, and that after level 36 you stop getting new skills or truck parts, with only paint jobs left to unlock.

Other console tricks from SCS’s documentation

• Map editor commands: many commands on SCS’s list, such as edit_save, g_delete_uid and g_sel_type, are for the map editor and modders, not for normal play. The community wiki says that since update 1.36 the editor starts with an -edit launch option, not the old edit command.
• Not sure what a variable does? Type its name alone and the game prints its current and default value, as the SCS page shows with r_mirror_view_distance.
• Settings that are not cheats: g_mph (miles or kilometers), g_gallon (gallons or liters) and g_fahrenheit change display units, per the SCS config page.

ETS2 cheats: common questions

Can I use console commands in multiplayer or Convoy?

Treat them as single-player. SCS lists g_convoy_allow_load as a setting for loading during a convoy and warns that loading during specific convoy events might cause issues, and the community wiki says teleporting does not work in online jobs. We do not recommend or document any way to cheat online.

Why does a guide list a money command for ETS2?

Be careful with it. SCS’s command and variable pages and the community wiki document no such command, so we do not list one.

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Sources: SCS Software’s modding wiki pages Console, Console commands and Configuration variables; community Truck Simulator wiki pages Console, Bank, Experience Point and Levels; SCS Software’s blog for the Iceland DLC release. Checked November 11, 2026 (UTC).

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