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Achievements
74 achievements.
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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Feed, Seed, and Freight
You hauled farm freight where it was needed -- feed, seed, or the season's grain. Somewhere down a gravel drive, a rancher checked the sky and said much obliged.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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Paid for the Classroom Yourself
You bought an endorsement course with your own money instead of waiting on carrier sponsorship. Ambition has tuition, and you covered it in cash at the counter.
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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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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Midnight Freight to Georgia
Delivered somewhere in Georgia with the freight rolling in well after dark. No first-class ticket -- just a sleeper, a thermos, and a place you'd rather be.
Category: Places on the Map
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Over the Rockies, Spotless
You took a mountain grade and brought the freight down clean. The rocky high country tested the brakes; the brakes politely declined to fail.
Category: Out on the Road
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