From ETS2 player to Kogel IT career: Kevin’s story

An SCS On The Road visit to Kogel Trailer in Burtenbach, Germany, put a human story beside the usual vehicle research. Kevin, an enthusiastic Euro Truck Simulator 2 player, had turned his interest in the transport world into a professional role in Kogel’s IT team. He guided the SCS crew through the company and explained how a hobby and a real trailer-manufacturing career came together.

The episode is not a claim that playing ETS2 automatically leads to a particular job. Its value is more concrete: Kevin could speak both as a player familiar with the virtual trucks and as an IT professional supporting a real manufacturer. That shared vocabulary gave the factory tour a perspective different from a standard product presentation.

Kogel was founded in 1934 by Franz Xaver Kogel in Neu-Ulm and is now based in Burtenbach. The company manufactures trailer solutions for freight and logistics customers. Its official history describes a business that grew from bodywork and truck-platform components into a European trailer producer, which helps explain why SCS needed direct access to people, facilities and vehicles rather than relying only on public photographs.

SCS said the primary aim was to capture the character of Kogel Trailer accurately for Euro Truck Simulator 2. A manufacturer visit can provide proportions, materials, mechanisms, markings and small operational details that are easy to miss in general reference images. Kevin’s tour placed that technical work in context and showed the people and systems behind the physical products.

At the time of the November 2023 video, the article was a research story rather than a DLC release announcement. SCS later confirmed the Kogel Trailer Pack and released it on September 5, 2024. The finished pack includes six trailer families – Cargo, Cool, Tipper, Tankplex, Triplex and Duplex – plus cabin items and branded wheel hardware. That later release confirms where the cooperation led without rewriting the original episode as if all of those details had already been announced.

Kevin’s transition is best read as an example of transferable interest. Familiarity with a simulation can motivate deeper curiosity about logistics, vehicles and the companies behind them, while a professional IT career still depends on the relevant technical skills and real workplace experience. The episode succeeds because it connects those two sides without pretending they are identical.

For the original conversation and factory footage, use the SCS video and announcement below. The later SCS release post and Steam product page are the authoritative sources for the final Kogel Trailer Pack contents, while Kogel’s own company history supplies the manufacturer background.