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Achievements
22 achievements.
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. Earned .
Filler-Up and Keep Truckin'
You topped off the tank before it got dramatic. Filled 'er up at the old roadside cafe and kept right on truckin' down the line.
Category: The Working Day
Unlocked. Earned .
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. Earned .
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.
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.
Another Day Older
You have moved sixteen tons in a single load, and what did you get. A settlement line, a sore back, and a dispatcher already asking about the next one.
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.
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.
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.
Under the Biggest Sky
Freight settled in Montana, where the interstate runs long, the radio runs out, and the sky goes on far past the windshield. Worth the mileage every single time.
Category: Places on the Map
Unlocked.
Stick-Shift Solo
You ran in manual and made the gearbox part of the band. Every clean shift sounds cool, right up until the grade changes key on you.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Highway to Maybe Not
You slowed in time to dodge a road hazard. Could've been a one-way ramp to somewhere awful -- your brake pedal had other plans.
Category: The Working Day
Unlocked.
Sweetheart of the Truck Stop
You pulled into a rest stop for the very first time. The romance lasted exactly as long as the vending machine took to size you up and judge.
Category: The Working Day
Unlocked.
Keep the Bonus, Boss
Your first late delivery is on the books. The bonus walked, the receiver sighed, and you learned exactly how much of a deadline is actually cushion.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Drop It and Hook It
Your first drop and hook. You backed under a trailer somebody else loaded hours ago, cranked the gear up, and were rolling before a dock would have found you a door.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Leave It Where It Lies
Your first drop at the receiving end. They keep the whole trailer, freight and all, you hook a clean empty, and you are back on the road before a dock would have called your number.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Signed, Sealed, Hauled
Your very first load is signed for and gone. No fanfare needed -- the receiver got the freight and the paperwork held up clean.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
First Day
Dispatch handed you your first load number, the shipper watched you back a trailer into the dock, and the air finally built past governor release. Your first day is in the books.
Category: Career and Rank
Unlocked.