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Achievements
50 achievements.
Coffee Break, Driver
You took your 30-minute break and let the clock breathe. One more cup of truck-stop coffee, and your knees filed a note of gratitude.
Category: The Working Day
Unlocked. Earned .
The Jackson Everybody Sings About
A load delivered into Jackson. Folks have argued for sixty years over which Jackson the song means, Tennessee or Mississippi, so this badge takes either. Your bill of lading, at least, is specific.
Category: The Dial and Song Towns
Unlocked. Earned .
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. Earned .
Hot Brakes, Warm Handshake
On time with almost nothing to spare -- the kind of arrival where the dock crew was already drafting the late note. They tore it up, and you never saw it.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked. Earned .
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. Earned .
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.
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.
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.
What a Long, Strange Haul
Ten career deliveries in the books. It has been a long, strange stretch of road to get here, and the receipts are piling up faster than the war stories.
Category: Career and Rank
Unlocked.
Kept It Between the Lines
You crossed your first state line with freight aboard. One side to the other, you kept the rig between the lines and the load rode clean across the border.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Vanished Like a Professional
Three hundred-plus miles delivered on time with no damage, no strikes, and no tickets. In and out so smooth the paperwork is the only proof you were there.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Slow Rod Lincoln
A whole run and not one speeding strike. The souped-up itch tapped the throttle once, then you sat it down to think hard about the insurance.
Category: Out on the Road
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.
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.
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.
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.
Right Back Where You Started
You delivered a load, then hauled the very next one straight back where you came from. Some drivers chase new horizons; this week the horizon ran a shuttle.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
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.
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.