Currently the newly added platfrom servers no practical use for two main reasons:
- Lots of trucks hardly fit the wheel lock on the platform, including small scouts and bigger trucks, only the ones of the size of TUZ Actaeon or Warthog do fit well.
none of the vehicles is hold stable on the platfrom within the wheel space ^
Solution for this one would be to make the wheel holder size adjustable with the fast control menu, however that would mean making the menu quite busy for being a fast control one.
- Once a vehicle that do fit the wheel holders is put on the platform, it quickly falls off during towing. Unless player winch the towed vehicle, there's not a good way of towing vehicles at all, but this solution unallows the player to use the winch for other purposes.
Solution here would need a similar system to packing vehicles, but instead freezing whole ride, just freeze the axle that is within the trigger of wheel holder on the towing platform, so the rest of the vehicle and its axles still behaves to the physic.
Alternatively, you could skip the first problem with the use of having auto-adjust of the wheel holders once the truck is "packed" on platform. Since you got the wheel size and distance between two wheels on an axle in truck's XML, this could be used to translate the dimensions on the towing platform.
In this solution of both problems, player would drive with their front or rear axle on the platform (which wouldn't need to be perfect or actually fit the wheel holders), "pack" it and see the wheel holders to automatically adjust to the size of wheels of towed vehicle.