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Achievements
80 achievements.
Freight for the High Plains
A load delivered into the Dakotas, where the horizon does most of the talking and the wind files a counterclaim. Somebody has to keep the prairie stocked.
Category: Places on the Map
Unlocked. Earned .
The Compass Said Keep Going
A delivery that ran hard north, latitude stacking up the whole way. When the wandering gets aimless, some folks find a bearing and follow it; yours had a dock at the end.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked. Earned .
On a First-Name Basis at the Scale
Five inspections weathered across your career. The scale house is a wall every driver has to get over sooner or later; by now you could climb it in your sleep.
Category: The Working Day
Unlocked. Earned .
Where We're Going, We Need Roads
Eighty-eight miles an hour in a loaded truck. Nothing happened, nowhere else and no other year. Just a very fast truck and a very brief lapse of judgment.
Category: Deep Cuts
Unlocked. Earned .
A Mile Past the Last Marker
Snow or crosswind, you kept the trailer in line and the wheels turning. The kind of grim stretch that earns roadside markers stayed in your mirror, not the headlines.
Category: Weather and the Calendar
Unlocked.
Wichita on the Line
A load signed for in Wichita. Somewhere out on the plains a lineman waved; you were too busy watching the wind push the trailer.
Category: Places on the Map
Unlocked.
Westbound, Foot Down
A load delivered headed the other way. Westbound and willing, you drank the weak coffee, pushed the sun down ahead of you, and put it on the dock.
Category: Places on the Map
Unlocked.
Bumper-to-Bumper Blues
Heavy traffic, and you kept the following distance sane. The road runs long and life moves fast on it, so you let the jam breathe instead of tailgating into a mess.
Category: The Working Day
Unlocked.
Bandit Pays the Toll
You hit a toll and let the carrier eat it. Eastbound, westbound, loaded down -- one little beep at the booth, then accounting took the wheel.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Sipping It All the Way
A whole delivery run at better than eight miles to the gallon. Light foot, early lift, and a truck that was in the right gear for once.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Three Regions and Ramblin'
You've worked three freight regions now. Can't wait to get rolling out to the next one -- though dispatch still mispronounces wherever it turns out to be.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Caught the White-Line Bug
A thousand lifetime miles behind you. That white line gets in the blood like a fever, and the windshield's got the bug count to prove you've caught it.
Category: Career and Rank
Unlocked.
What a Long, Strange Haul
Ten career deliveries in the books. It has been a long, strange stretch of road to get here, and the receipts are piling up faster than the war stories.
Category: Career and Rank
Unlocked.
Kept It Between the Lines
You crossed your first state line with freight aboard. One side to the other, you kept the rig between the lines and the load rode clean across the border.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Vanished Like a Professional
Three hundred-plus miles delivered on time with no damage, no strikes, and no tickets. In and out so smooth the paperwork is the only proof you were there.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Slow Rod Lincoln
A whole run and not one speeding strike. The souped-up itch tapped the throttle once, then you sat it down to think hard about the insurance.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Down the Map with a Load
A delivery that ran hard south, shedding latitude with every fuel stop. Warmer air, looser shoulders, and somebody at the bottom of the map waiting on freight.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Five-by-Two and Out
Ten hours in the bunk and you woke up legal. Unglamorous sleeper math -- and somehow the most heroic move on the whole board.
Category: The Working Day
Unlocked.
Mama Warned You About This
You bunked down before the fatigue started steering. Somebody once warned you about staring down that centerline too long -- this time you listened.
Category: The Working Day
Unlocked.
Summer of Sixty-Nine
You held it at exactly sixty-nine miles an hour for a solid mile. The number has no significance whatsoever. You know precisely what you did.
Category: Deep Cuts
Unlocked.