GTA 5 vehicle data

Flatbed in FiveM: spawn code, top speed and engine sound

The MTL Flatbed spawns with flatbed. Below: its handling numbers explained and ranked against the Industrial class, ready Lua spawn code, the three forms of its hash, how to use its sound on an add-on car, and its mod kit, colour and light ids.

Read from the game files of GTA V Legacy build 1.0.3889.0 on November 8, 2026. It already exists in game build 3258, the build many FiveM servers enforce. By the FiveMRides team.

How the Flatbed drives, in numbers

• All-wheel drive: fDriveBiasFront is 0.5, so 50% of the drive force goes to the front wheels and 50% to the rear. It has 5 forward gears.
• Top-gear limit: about 156 km/h (97 mph), from fInitialDriveMaxFlatVel 130 x 1.2. None of the 12 Industrial vehicles in the game files have a higher limit; the class median is 120 km/h.
• Drive force per tonne: 0.022 (fInitialDriveForce 0.14 on 6,500 kg). That is 7% more than the Industrial median of 0.02; it is a handling index for how hard it pulls for its weight, not horsepower.
• Brakes: fBrakeForce 0.25 with 65% of the braking on the front axle (class median 0.25).
• Grip: peak traction 1.65 and sliding traction 1.5 (fTractionCurveMax / Min). The gap of 0.15 is how much grip it loses once the tyres slide; 49% of the grip sits on the front axle.
• Weight: 6,500 kg, 4% heavier than the Industrial median of 6,250 kg.

Against all 12 Industrial vehicles in the game files

The bar runs from the lowest to the highest value in the class, the filled part ends at the Flatbed, the light tick is the class median. Hover a row for the numbers. Stock values without upgrades.

What each field does: handling.meta fields explained.

Spawn the Flatbed in FiveM

Client script (spawns it where the player stands and seats them in it):

local model = `flatbed` -- 0x50B0215A
RequestModel(model)
while not HasModelLoaded(model) do Wait(0) end
local ped = PlayerPedId()
local pos = GetEntityCoords(ped)
local veh = CreateVehicle(model, pos.x, pos.y, pos.z, GetEntityHeading(ped), true, false)
SetPedIntoVehicle(ped, veh, -1)
SetModelAsNoLongerNeeded(model)

Server script (OneSync, the server owns the entity; admin only through the ACE restriction):

RegisterCommand('spawnflatbed', function(source)
    local ped = GetPlayerPed(source)
    local pos = GetEntityCoords(ped)
    local veh = CreateVehicleServerSetter(`flatbed`, 'automobile', pos.x, pos.y, pos.z, GetEntityHeading(ped))
    while not DoesEntityExist(veh) do Wait(0) end
    SetPedIntoVehicle(ped, veh, -1)
end, true)

• vMenu: Vehicle Spawner, then Spawn Vehicle By Model Name, type flatbed.
• txAdmin: in-game menu, Spawn Vehicle, type flatbed.
• QBCore / ESX: /car flatbed for admins.
• The second argument of CreateVehicleServerSetter is the vehicle type; for the Flatbed it is automobile. A wrong type makes the server entity fail.

An add-on car that does not appear is a different problem (stream folder, data_file lines, model name): see FiveM car not spawning. All vanilla codes in one table: FiveM spawn codes list.

Hashes

All three are the same number: the joaat (Jenkins one-at-a-time) hash of the lower case name, which is what GetHashKey('flatbed') and the Lua backtick form `flatbed` return.

Use the Flatbed engine sound on your car

The game has a car audio object named after this model, so one line in the vehicles.meta of an add-on car makes it use the Flatbed sound set:

<audioNameHash>flatbed</audioNameHash>

• Engine audio type: classic. The older loop based engine audio, common on trucks and older vehicles.
• In our engine sound catalogue it is listed in the Diesel / heavy truck family.
• The audio object is the whole vehicle sound: engine, horn, doors and radio genre change together. How it sounds on your car also depends on that car's gears and top speed.

Want a recorded engine instead of a GTA one? FiveM engine sounds lists 102 packs and the Soundpack Maker builds the resource.

Mod kit, colours and lights

• 9 factory colour combinations in carvariations.meta.
• carvariations lightSettings 0: the headlight and taillight preset it reads from carcols.
• sirenSettings 0 (no siren lights).
• Plates: front only.
• Stock wheel category at the mod shop: Sport.
• Seat layout LAYOUT_TRUCK, 2 seats.

vehicles.meta flags

In plain words: never placed as a parked car by the game.

All 10 flags

• FLAG_BIG
• FLAG_CAN_HONK_WHEN_FLEEING
• FLAG_AVOID_TURNS
• FLAG_EXTRAS_REQUIRE
• FLAG_PEDS_CAN_STAND_ON_TOP
• FLAG_DONT_SPAWN_IN_CARGEN
• FLAG_USE_FAT_INTERIOR_LIGHT
• FLAG_IS_BULKY
• FLAG_BLOCK_FROM_ATTRACTOR_SCENARIO
• FLAG_CANNOT_TAKE_COVER_WHEN_STOOD_ON

Make an add-on car feel like the Flatbed

FiveMRides add-ons like this

Ready add-on cars from our shop for the same kind of vehicle. They install next to the vanilla Flatbed, they do not replace it.

Questions

What is the spawn code for the Flatbed in GTA 5 and FiveM?

The spawn code (model name) is flatbed. Its joaat hash is 0x50B0215A (1353720154 as an unsigned number). Admin menus such as vMenu, txAdmin and the /car command of QBCore or ESX take the model name as it is.

How fast is the Flatbed in GTA 5?

Its handling gives a top-gear limit of about 156 km/h (97 mph): fInitialDriveMaxFlatVel 130 x 1.2, the value GetVehicleModelEstimatedMaxSpeed returns for ordinary handling values. Drag and upgrades change what a driver sees. It is AWD with 5 gears and weighs 6,500 kg.

Can I give an add-on car the Flatbed engine sound?

Yes. Put <audioNameHash>flatbed</audioNameHash> in the add-on car's vehicles.meta. The game then uses the Flatbed audio object, which is the whole vehicle sound: engine, horn, doors and radio genre change together.

Numbers read from the game files, nothing measured on a track yet: how this data is read.

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