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Chris Blackstone
Achievements
72 achievements.
Lubbock in the Rearview
Rolled out of Lubbock with a load, the high plains opening up ahead. They say happiness is a hometown shrinking in the rearview mirror, and tonight the freight led the way.
Category: Places on the Map
Unlocked. Earned .
Paid to Sit Still
A shipper held you past the free time and the carrier billed them for it. The clock was the only thing working, and for once it was working for you.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked. Earned .
Long Live Las Vegas
Hauled a load into Las Vegas without leaving a nickel in a machine. The only thing you gambled was the merge, and the house lost.
Category: Places on the Map
Unlocked. Earned .
A Whistle Outside Folsom
Freight delivered in Sacramento, just down the road from a famously well-sung prison. You heard a train whistle on the way in and kept rolling, free as you please.
Category: Places on the Map
Unlocked. Earned .
The Bakersfield Sound
Freight on the dock in Bakersfield. The streets out here have a twang all their own, and your air brakes kept the beat.
Category: Places on the Map
Unlocked. Earned .
Twenty-Five and Rolling Steady
Twenty-five career deliveries logged. Not a rookie number anymore, not a veteran number yet -- just a little more road behind you than most folks ever get.
Category: Career and Rank
Unlocked. Earned .
Shadow of the Giants
You delivered up in far Northern California, where the biggest living things on Earth watch the trucks go by. The trailer felt small the whole way in.
Category: Places on the Map
Unlocked. Earned .
The Porch Light Was Still On
Ten deliveries or more into your career, you brought a load into your old home terminal city. The streets got smaller while you were gone; the welcome did not.
Category: Career and Rank
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.
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.
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.
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.