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Achievements
54 achievements.
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
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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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Send It Back
You walked a trailer, found what was wrong with it, and refused it. Thirty minutes for the swap, and the write-up stayed with the people whose problem it was.
Category: Out on the Road
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You Get What You Get
You hooked a trailer out of a drop yard and found a write-up on the walk-around. Somebody parked it, signed for it, and went home. Now it is yours.
Category: Out on the Road
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Dark Line on the Radar
You drove through a genuine thunderstorm and kept the trailer behind you where it belongs. You could feel the weather coming on long before the first drop hit.
Category: Weather and the Calendar
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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
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Copy That, October
A load settled on the fourth of October, which every driver reads as ten-four. Some white knight on the channel started it, and by noon the whole band was saying the date back.
Category: Deep Cuts
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ten Thousand Down the Line
Ten thousand lifetime miles behind you. The white-line fever stopped being a symptom a long way back -- now it's just the job.
Category: Career and Rank
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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
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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
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CB Royalty
Your reputation pinned the meter. Trailer for a throne, the whole channel knows the handle, and dispatch finally takes your word for it.
Category: Career and Rank
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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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Soup It Up a Little
Your first upgrade -- a small taste of souped-up confidence. The ghost in that old hopped-up Lincoln approved, then asked why the invoice was so reasonable.
Category: Career and Rank
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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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