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Achievements
70 achievements.
Been Most Everywhere, Man
One route, three states. Still working up to a list of towns long enough to rattle off in one breath, but the map had to stop and clear its throat.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked. Earned .
Turns Out, an Easy Run
Three hundred-plus loaded miles and not a single toll. They always swear no run comes easy -- this one clearly never got that memo.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked. Earned .
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.
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.
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.
Down the Map with a Load
A delivery that ran hard south, shedding latitude with every fuel stop. Warmer air, looser shoulders, and somebody at the bottom of the map waiting on freight.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Summer of Sixty-Nine
You held it at exactly sixty-nine miles an hour for a solid mile. The number has no significance whatsoever. You know precisely what you did.
Category: Deep Cuts
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.
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
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.
Same Song, Three State Lines
One station carried you across three states before you finally lost it. Somewhere back there a transmitter is still trying.
Category: The Dial and Song Towns
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.
Pines to the Pacific
Freight delivered in the Pacific Northwest, where the evergreens crowd the shoulders and the rain keeps its own schedule. The air alone was worth the trip.
Category: Places on the Map
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.
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.