armstrong25

Achievements

124 achievements.

• Right Back Where You Started

  You delivered a load, then hauled the very next one straight back where you came from. Some drivers chase new horizons; this week the horizon ran a shuttle.

  Category: Out on the Road

  Unlocked.

• Strut Past the Fuel Island

  Reputation at ninety or better. Walk through any truck stop like you own the coffee machine, because at this point dispatch practically curtsies.

  Category: Career and Rank

  Unlocked.

• Send It Back

  You walked a trailer, found what was wrong with it, and refused it. Thirty minutes for the swap, and the write-up stayed with the people whose problem it was.

  Category: Out on the Road

  Unlocked.

• Cold Freight, Warm Heart

  Your first refrigerated load delivered with the temperature holding steady. The trailer ran cold the whole way there; no reason your mood had to.

  Category: Out on the Road

  Unlocked.

• World Through a Wet Windshield

  You drove through the rain and kept it civil. The whole world goes by through that glass, with the wipers keeping time and your following distance keeping order.

  Category: Weather and the Calendar

  Unlocked.

• Same Song, Three State Lines

  One station carried you across three states before you finally lost it. Somewhere back there a transmitter is still trying.

  Category: The Dial and Song Towns

  Unlocked.

• Skip on the Far End

  You pulled in a station from far outside anything it has business reaching, flickering in and out at highway speed. Height is range, and you were up where the air is thin.

  Category: The Dial and Song Towns

  Unlocked.

• Somewhere in the Static

  You rode a station all the way to the end of its reach, hiss creeping in under the music until the last of it went. Nobody hung up on you. The hill just got in the way.

  Category: The Dial and Song Towns

  Unlocked.

• Worked the Whole Dial

  Twenty-five different stations found and left behind. You are not listening to the radio so much as reading the country off it.

  Category: The Dial and Song Towns

  Unlocked.

• No Mountain High Enough

  You let cruise read the hill before you got to it: it banked a little speed on the flat and carried it up a grade that would have taken it off you. Nothing you had to do about it.

  Category: Out on the Road

  Unlocked.

• Pines to the Pacific

  Freight delivered in the Pacific Northwest, where the evergreens crowd the shoulders and the rain keeps its own schedule. The air alone was worth the trip.

  Category: Places on the Map

  Unlocked.

• Five Clean, In a Row

  Five straight deliveries on time, undamaged, and ticket-free. A streak that quiet doesn't make for a good CB story, but it pays.

  Category: Out on the Road

  Unlocked.

• Your Name on the Title

  You bought into your first tractor position as a leased-on owner-operator. The revenue is bigger, the bills are yours, and so is every decision from here on.

  Category: Career and Rank

  Unlocked.

• Turns Out, an Easy Run

  Three hundred-plus loaded miles and not a single toll. They always swear no run comes easy -- this one clearly never got that memo.

  Category: Out on the Road

  Unlocked.

• Night Moves on the Interstate

  Ten loads signed for in the small hours. You have gone properly nocturnal: empty lanes, cheap fuel, and receivers who are surprised to see anybody.

  Category: Out on the Road

  Unlocked.

• Down East with a Dry Van

  A delivery into northern New England: narrow bridges, frost heaves, and town names that pick fights with the GPS. The chowder alone justifies the deadhead home.

  Category: Places on the Map

  Unlocked.

• Never Fought the Law

  Fifty deliveries and not one ticket. No arguing at the window, no citation in the door pocket, no story to tell about it either.

  Category: Out on the Road

  Unlocked.

• Been Most Everywhere, Man

  One route, three states. Still working up to a list of towns long enough to rattle off in one breath, but the map had to stop and clear its throat.

  Category: Out on the Road

  Unlocked.

• Four Legs and Rolling

  A single dispatch that strung four corridors together. Front to back it was a long line of road, and you ran the whole thing nose to tail.

  Category: Career and Rank

  Unlocked.

• Over the Rockies, Spotless

  You took a mountain grade and brought the freight down clean. The rocky high country tested the brakes; the brakes politely declined to fail.

  Category: Out on the Road

  Unlocked.