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Achievements
79 achievements.
Newer Iron from the Yard
Dispatch swapped your assigned tractor for a newer fleet unit, handed over fueled, serviced, and washed. Seniority has a smell, and it is fresh upholstery.
Category: Career and Rank
Unlocked.
And Five Hundred More
One dispatch, over a thousand miles, start to finish. Long enough that the weather changed its mind twice and you stopped noticing the radio.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Beat the Clock, Fewer Days
You hit the dock before the deadline. Didn't take most of a week behind the wheel to manage it, and dispatch only ever reads the timestamp anyway.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
Keep the Bonus, Boss
Your first late delivery is on the books. The bonus walked, the receiver sighed, and you learned exactly how much of a deadline is actually cushion.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
Signed, Sealed, Hauled
Your very first load is signed for and gone. No fanfare needed -- the receiver got the freight and the paperwork held up clean.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
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.
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
Unlocked.
Eastbound and Gone
You ran a load net eastbound and put it on the dock. East is east, the hammer was down, and the receiver never had to wait on you.
Category: Places on the Map
Unlocked.
Somebody Else's Turn
You dragged a trailer with a write-up on it all the way across the country and left it in the receiver's yard. It is their problem now. You did check the lights at every stop.
Category: Out on the Road
Unlocked.
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.
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
Unlocked.
Room Enough to Turn Around
You ran a bobtail reposition -- no trailer, no load, just a tractor finding its next job. Turning a rig around takes a lot less acreage without the box.
Category: Career and Rank
Unlocked.
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
Unlocked.
Nobody's Fool on the First
A delivery settled on the first day of April. Dispatch swore the load was real, and for once the joke was on nobody -- paperwork clean, payment posted.
Category: Deep Cuts
Unlocked.
Freight Up the Holler
You delivered into Appalachian coal-and-ridge country, where the roads bend like fiddle tunes. The hills watched you come in, and the dock was glad you did.
Category: Places on the Map
Unlocked.
Prettiest Town on the Manifest
Freight delivered into Abilene, out where the West begins in earnest and nobody honks at a slow dock turn. The song got there first, but the load still needed a truck.
Category: The Dial and Song Towns
Unlocked.