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Achievements
88 achievements.
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
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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
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Rolling Before the Roosters
You pulled out before the world got loud, first light still rehearsing on the horizon. The early start echoes all day -- mostly in yawns, occasionally in bonuses.
Category: Out on the Road
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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
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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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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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Brighter Than the Local TV Star
Freight delivered into Kansas City, home of burnt ends, wide boulevards, and local celebrities who will not help you back into a dock. You managed anyway.
Category: The Dial and Song Towns
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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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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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Another Page, Another Town
You reached career level 3. Here you are again, on stage in some new town -- except this chapter happens to pay better rates.
Category: Career and Rank
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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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