The only way I found to move clothing and backpacks is to keep your hands empty, hold X and move it to your hands, and then you can equip

I literally came on here to report the SAME thing. We have gone through a minimum of three cars. We even tried driving in first gear the entire time, screen froze and came back and we crashed into a fence. Shit cannot happen in the open anywhere, always when there is something to hit and destroy the vehicle.

I agree! The fact that you can just server hop into a base makes hours of work pointless in the game. If you hop to another server, you SHOULD start at a random spawn point, not at the same location from where you spawned on the other server.