Can't seem to progress. Help!

I've managed to claw my way from Silver II to Silver I, and it's going to be another uphill battle to Gold III. It's a function of equipment and hangar; I run 7/7s currently, and am slowly upgrading. I finally grabbed the 5th slot not too long ago, and I really do think that helped me out of Silver II.

I say: Don't worry about your cups. Play to win, every time, be a good teammate, earn that silver for upgrades, and you'll get there.

First question: Independent truck owner who does nothing but scare up loads for my driver to pick up. And with loads going coast to coast that might be once every 2-3 days. So lots of time. But I usually only play one or two profiles in a day for a few hours. And not much in the second really, just enough to knock off the tasks. And I rotate through them one at a time in order.

Second question: Why not? Different equipment in each lineup so it forces me to play differently. I don't get set in my ways.

My heavies are in my main profile but I still have a bunch of other bots in there that I really like to play with too so I mix it up a lot. Thus it's league level yo-yos a lot as well. It's also the only one I've spent money on.

Second profile was unintentional when I had to get a new phone and couldn't figure out how to access my main account. Noob mistake of being unaware of Google Play's backup. But it has just 2 heavy, 3 medium and 1 light bots and nothing else in it.

Third was boredom with getting pitted against way too overpowered and powerful ancile and shield bots that make my weapons useless. Of course I've leveled it up well past that point now. It has just 2 medium and 2 light bots in it and also no other equipment.

Fourth was again boredom with the shield proliferation. I'd prefer a pure bot to bot game with no weapons absorbing shields or tricky movement gimmicks. This profile has only 3 Destriers and a G.I.Patton. again with no other equipment.

I'm now using the last 3 profiles as experimenting and self training arenas. Leveling everything in them up as equally as possible. I'm also not spending any money on them.

I actually enjoy my last profile the most. It is so much fun running those Destriers against heavier bots and suprising them by damaging them heavily over time or even killing them. I really get some players' ire up a lot of the time. ? I've even begun seeing many more upgraded Destriers used by other players. It's not called a warhorse for nothing. Mine are all 8s with 6-7 paired weapons. Same with the Patton. But it's also the profile that makes the least Ag as it does the least damage. I just got to the point where upgrading isn't going to be a daily occurance anymore unless I do spend money on it. Doing around 150k damage on average doesn't generate a lot of Ag when one has to repair their bots to boot. But I do manage to make about 100-200 Au on top of the daily tasks.

Those little Schutzes are probably a literal pain in the 「bum-bum」 aren't they?
I never really see them but they get underestimated easily. Only light bot with a heavy slot!

My setup is mostly ambush so only way a schutze catches me if it peeks at my corner or I want to catch them.

They die easy.