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James Howard
Achievements
93 achievements.
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. Earned .
Whatever the Yard Has Free
Five different tractors under you. Slip-seating means no truck is yours, and you have started noticing which of the spares pulls and which one just makes noise.
Category: Career and Rank
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Somebody Else's Turn
You dragged a trailer with a write-up on it all the way across the country and left it in the receiver's yard. It is their problem now. You did check the lights at every stop.
Category: Out on the Road
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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
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Wrong Game, No Limit
It isn't the mid-90s anymore like Jim Kitchen had you believe in Trucker. It's okay, floor it and hit 88.
Category: Deep Cuts
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The Small Hours Ride Along
Freight delivered in the smallest hours, between midnight and the first hint of gray. Whatever kept you company out there signed nothing and vanished at the dock.
Category: Out on the Road
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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
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Feed, Seed, and Freight
You hauled farm freight where it was needed -- feed, seed, or the season's grain. Somewhere down a gravel drive, a rancher checked the sky and said much obliged.
Category: Out on the Road
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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
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And Five Hundred More
One dispatch, over a thousand miles, start to finish. Long enough that the weather changed its mind twice and you stopped noticing the radio.
Category: Out on the Road
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The Long Way to the Dock
One dispatch that stretched past a full day on the trip clock, sleep and all. The kind of run where the last hundred miles feel personally aimed at you.
Category: Out on the Road
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Long, Hard, and Spotless
Twelve hundred-plus miles, on time, and not a fresh scratch on the rig. They swear no run comes easy; you delivered the exception.
Category: Out on the Road
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Paid Like a Boss Hog
One load cleared four grand gross all by itself. Just this once the big money landed squarely on the right side of the law, and the settlement sheet grinned back.
Category: Career and Rank
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Where the Ribbon Don't End
One loaded haul over 900 miles. The blacktop unspooled ahead like a ribbon with no end in sight, long enough for the seat cushion to earn seniority.
Category: Out on the Road
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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
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Smokey at the Scale
You rolled through an inspection with the paperwork in order. All that radio mischief stayed outside while your axle weights behaved themselves indoors.
Category: The Working Day
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Sparkle in the Dry Van
Your first high-value load delivered with the seals intact. Cargo worth more than the truck rides quiet, stays locked up tight, and never stops for souvenirs.
Category: Out on the Road
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Stuck in Every Flavor of Slow
Construction cones and a genuine traffic jam, both inside one trip. For a while there the truck was less a vehicle and more a waiting room with mud flaps.
Category: The Working Day
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Honky-Tonk of Cones
You crept through a construction zone like every cone had a lawyer on retainer. The swagger shrank down to posted speed, orange vests, and patient merging.
Category: The Working Day
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Big John on the Drive Axles
Your first heavy-haul load, the kind of tonnage that makes a trailer groan and a grade think twice. Every gear change felt like moving a legend.
Category: Out on the Road
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