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James Howard
Achievements
93 achievements.
A Working Man's Receipt
You fixed the rig in a proper garage instead of cobbling it together from borrowed parts. Honest work and an honest bill, and the truck rolled out earning its keep again.
Category: Career and Rank
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Runnin' the County Line
You put freight on a dock in Virginia, out where the ridgelines run the show. Some county lines out here are worth singing about; you crossed yours with the trailer full.
Category: Places on the Map
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Regular on the Regional Board
Career level five. Dispatch stopped double-checking your paperwork, the lanes run a little wider, and you can even turn a load down without getting a lecture.
Category: Career and Rank
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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
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Freight Up the Holler
You delivered into Appalachian coal-and-ridge country, where the roads bend like fiddle tunes. The hills watched you come in, and the dock was glad you did.
Category: Places on the Map
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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
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Flats, Foothills, and the Big Climb
One route that served flat land, rolling hills, and a real mountain grade before the dock. Your stomach rode the whole ride; the freight never noticed a thing.
Category: Out on the Road
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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
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Bluegrass on the Bill of Lading
A load signed for in Kentucky, where the pastures look painted and the fences run forever. The grass gets called blue; the money you made on it was plain green.
Category: Places on the Map
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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
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Eastbound and Gone
You ran a load net eastbound and put it on the dock. East is east, the hammer was down, and the receiver never had to wait on you.
Category: Places on the Map
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Newer Iron from the Yard
Dispatch swapped your assigned tractor for a newer fleet unit, handed over fueled, serviced, and washed. Seniority has a smell, and it is fresh upholstery.
Category: Career and Rank
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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
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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
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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
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Another Page, Another Town
You reached career level 3. Here you are again, on stage in some new town -- except this chapter happens to pay better rates.
Category: Career and Rank
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