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Achievements
66 achievements.
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
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.
Clear to Phoenix
Freight delivered in Phoenix. By the time you rolled in, the desert had stopped pretending it was ever going to cool off.
Category: Places on the Map
Unlocked.
Five Clean, In a Row
Five straight deliveries on time, undamaged, and ticket-free. A streak that quiet doesn't make for a good CB story, but it pays.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
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
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.
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.