What I found a missed opportunity with new features like route hopping is that you are still locked in services. When you end your service you get your report card and the options to go to the main menu, Free roam, etc. Wouldn't it be better if at the end of a service you get jumped out of your seat and you either go route hopping, sightseeing and go end your shift in a drivers room or at a route hopping spot?
Why? What would stuff like having an additional pointless step of going to an additional place add over how you can roam about doing as you please or go back to the menu and pick a new service?
There are several scenarios on HSC, SPG? Cajon Pass, where you are tasked with going to a building or trailer and or by the fence where a pickup truck is and the service/scenario ends. Why not have the New Route Hoping be an option? On SPG at the end of the Q249 Scenario "that is if you can get it done, you the player are Yanked from the driver's seat and are taken for a ride if you are not fast enough to get out, that is if you reenter with the free roam option.