If you could improve anything about the interior of your semi truck what would it be?

In a truck you have to consider where a dirver spends his time. usually it ammounts to 11 hours a day behind the wheel, 6-8 hours sleeping, and 3-4 hours eating, online, watching movies, or what ever else we do to occupy our down time.

Here is the best tip I can give you.

GET THE CHEAP PLASTIC SNAP/GULE TOGEATHER GARBAGE OUT OF THE TRUCK.

When the inside of a truck is built out of cheap plastic parts that snap or glue togeather, it doesnt take but 25-50,000 miles for things to start rattleing and squeaking. Sitting in a truck listening to that rattle and squeak 11 hour opera will drive you nutty. Even in a truck when it is constructed of quality materials you will have a certian ammount of rattles and squeaks, but they can be fixed by tightening screws or adding a buffer material to a pannel like double sided tape.

With the prices of new trucks today being easily over 100K we dont want to pay for a plastic piece of junk with a 400,000 mile lifecycle.

In the sleeper, the bunk needs to have a high quality mattress, and it needs to fold up out of the way and turn into a dinette.

Storage is boss! having the hookups for a mircrowave and fridge as mentioned is a huge one, and give us the option of installing a larger 12/120 volt fridge for those of us who live out of our trucks most of the time, one of the hardest thing is getting good nutrition, a large fridge will help greatly with this.

Ventalation is another huge issue, dont treat the vents like an afterthought, and dont stick a glass window where a sleeper vent should be. We need air circulation in the cab/sleeper to keep it from stinking to high hell.

A cabinet with a removable laundry basket would be nice too, and make it so the cabinet door can seal so you dont have to smell your stinky old sweat soaked clothes 3 days later.

I would always keep my dirty clothes in a trash bag, but it would have been nice to have had a home for them, expecially something that could be carried into a laundry mat.

Even better if you made the space a standard size for like say a rubbermaid container and got a deal with them to continue production of that specific container as long as the truck was in production.

That way if a driver quits and a new driver gets on the truck, they can get a new tub for 3.00 at walmart verses 300.00 at the dealer.

You really want to know how to design a truck though, go get a cdl and come out here and spend some time on the road, it will teach you more about it than you could ever hope to have the lot of us tell you.

Also things such as a toilet may be rather impractical. We still have to consider weight in the final equasion. It would be nice if we could all run 144" super sleepers with showers, toilets and kitchens, but hey, if truckin was easy everyone would do it.

 

I know im bad But Id like built in appliance shelve for a toaster oven so i could make chocolate chip cookies MMMMMMMM

 

I don't need a fancy or expensive shock cancelling system for my seat, but what would be wonderful is a seat back that had some adjustment for a drivers torso length. Today's seats can be adjusted away from the dash for the driver's leg length, and you can adjust the seat in height from the floor, and most seats can even adjust the base cushion in or out a notch or two. But it is like the whole world must have the same torso size! And most seats that have an integrated head rest have the back slope forward a bit, so if you are taller like me at 6'2", that forward slope hits my back just wrong! It would be okay if I was shaped like the hunchback of Notre Dame, but I am not, yet!

 

Slide-outs in a truck are going to create parking problems. Most truck stops allow about a foot on either side of the truck when parked. I like the idea of a convertible sleeping area. Also, a wider sleeping surface. My wife comes with me in the truck sometimes, and in the International we're crammed in side by side.

 

I'd go for cameras mounted toward the front, sides, and maybe a remote camera near the back of the trailer, all hooked to a recorder, like the equipment on many police vehicles. Truckers get blamed for an awful lot of incidents in which a "dash-cam" would shut the accuser up for good.

 

My improvement would be physically impossible, because I would make the interior of my truck the TARDIS. Thus I'd have all the room I need and not need a bigger truck.

 

So.... From what I've gathered from this thread!


everyone wants a bathroom, kitchen, bedroom with a queen size bed, closets, tv room, pantry, gameroom, shelves, cupboards, pool table, refrigerator, stove, oven, bakery, saloon, burlesgue, casino, auto pilot, on board dispatcher, laundry room, 3 stall garage, their own personal block buster video store, & 20 acres of rolling hills!

HOW THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO FIT ALL THAT TRASH IN A TRUCK?

The sleeper alone will be 200 inches or larger.... Not counting the $250,000.00 price tag if it was built.

 

You forgot the hot tub, tennis court and helipad.

 

You know that's right.

The sad thing is 90% of the requests are unreasonable. If Navistar did happen to build a truck with everything a driver "WANTS", they would never be able to sell it. Why? Because the price tag will be so #### rediculous no one could afford it.

Then all these people wanting this & wanting that will still be driving their company trucks complaining because JB Hunt won't buy then that $250,000.00 superliner.

Let's get back to reality people.

 

A few common sense things I did think of:

Id like a fridge I can reach from the drivers seat.

I want a sleeper that I can make completly dark, and I want it well insulated.

Being designed to aid in the instalation of an APU would be a big plus as well, IE raceways for the wires, and the ability to hook into the factory ducts.