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Just Can't Wait to Roll: Five career deliveries logged. That itch to get rolling down the highway again finally has a stat line that agrees with you.
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Road journal
Newest entries first.
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shipping containers, 37,699 pounds, delivered from Meridian to Columbus, Mississippi over 154 miles on time.
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Stick-Shift Solo: You ran in manual and made the gearbox part of the band. Every clean shift sounds cool, right up until the grade changes key on you.
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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.
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A Working Man's Receipt: You fixed the rig in a proper garage instead of cobbling it together from borrowed parts. Honest work and an honest bill, and the truck rolled out earning its keep again.
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Four Legs and Rolling: A single dispatch that strung four corridors together. Front to back it was a long line of road, and you ran the whole thing nose to tail.
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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.
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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.
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shipping containers, 45,493 pounds, delivered from Columbus, Georgia to Meridian over 239 miles.
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Honky-Tonk of Cones: You crept through a construction zone like every cone had a lawyer on retainer. The swagger shrank down to posted speed, orange vests, and patient merging.
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Highway to Maybe Not: You slowed in time to dodge a road hazard. Could've been a one-way ramp to somewhere awful -- your brake pedal had other plans.
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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.
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shipping containers, 28,933 pounds, delivered from Columbus, Georgia to Albany, Georgia over 86 miles. Delivered without new truck damage.
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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.
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retail goods, 20,005 pounds, delivered from Opelika to Columbus, Georgia over 30 miles on time. Delivered without new truck damage.
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Foggy Mountain Haul: You ran through fog thick enough to bend a banjo string and never lost the road. Headlights, GPS, and brake distance picked up the tune.
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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.
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Pretty as a Billboard: You delivered with barely a scratch on the rig. The truck's still pretty enough to smile down from a billboard -- not one new dent stealing the look.
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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.
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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.