The developer console is not just a powerful tool to gain immediate access to certain game variables and commands for power users, mappers, modders and so on.
It's also something your average user might want to have enabled for reporting bugs, taking screenshots (though the new photo edit mode is good for that as well) and for mod users who want to see if that new mod he installed has any issues. Errors will be shown in red in the console so you don't have to check your game log to know if the mod worked or not.
Navigate to your Euro Truck Simulator 2 Directory
Open the config file with any text editor
Find “uset g_developer “0”” & “uset g_console “0””
Set both values from “0” to “1”
Save the file
Run the game and open the console with the “ ` “ key