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Achievements
90 achievements.
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
Unlocked. Earned .
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
Unlocked. Earned .
Down East with a Dry Van
A delivery into northern New England: narrow bridges, frost heaves, and town names that pick fights with the GPS. The chowder alone justifies the deadhead home.
Category: Places on the Map
Unlocked. Earned .
The Porch Light Was Still On
Ten deliveries or more into your career, you brought a load into your old home terminal city. The streets got smaller while you were gone; the welcome did not.
Category: Career and Rank
Unlocked. Earned .
Just Keep Rollin' On
One hundred deliveries in the book. You never made a fuss about it, just kept the wheels rolling down the road, load after load, until the number turned serious.
Category: Career and Rank
Unlocked. Earned .
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
Unlocked. Earned .
A Mile Past the Last Marker
Snow or crosswind, you kept the trailer in line and the wheels turning. The kind of grim stretch that earns roadside markers stayed in your mirror, not the headlines.
Category: Weather and the Calendar
Unlocked.
Westbound, Foot Down
A load delivered headed the other way. Westbound and willing, you drank the weak coffee, pushed the sun down ahead of you, and put it on the dock.
Category: Places on the Map
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
Built It a Piece at a Time
You've banked 25,000 dollars, stacked up load by load. Slower than sneaking a Cadillac out of the plant in your lunchbox, but a whole lot more legal.
Category: Career and Rank
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
Twenty-Five Pins in the Map
Deliveries settled in twenty-five different cities. The atlas in the door pocket is starting to fall open to the right page all on its own.
Category: Places on the Map
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
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.
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
Unlocked.
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.
Sipping It All the Way
A whole delivery run at better than eight miles to the gallon. Light foot, early lift, and a truck that was in the right gear for once.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.