What company to deploy an ARI Sleeper at?

This has been an issue as long as I was in the trucking business. Now retired. The last 15 years I was with a power only, pull customer trailers-show loads, new trailers, specialized trailers, time sensitive etc. It got to the point they had to stop hiring long wb heavy tractors, or warn the guys up front it is going to have an impact on your earning potential. The same thing goes for almost any carrier willing to hire them. The limits it puts on their operations people is sometimes too much hassle.
Reliable, the car hauling people, and several others in the high end enclosed car hauling use a lot of them. That is where I would head if I were of a mind to go that route.

 

How bad do you want a super sleeper?
Could add one to a cabover and avoid the length and weight penalties.
I never minded driving a cabover . The ones with the set back steer axle and air ride drive axles were not bad riding rigs at all.
As long as you’re not sitting directly on top of the steer axle it’s not bad. with the set back steer axle it softens the ride where it’s no different than a conventional truck.
plus , no crumple zone out front makes
You a more attentive driver.


I wonder if anyone makes a sleeper that slides and extends? like all the Campers do now .
Just have it slide out the back , there’s what three or four feet of extra space if you don’t need to turn.

I see a lot of ten wheel straight trucks with Panther on the side , and they all have super sleepers .

and is there a way you can compact it by design it more efficiently?

I had a shower and a chemical toilet in a 36” flat top sleeper.
It was all under the bed, which I designed to fold up out of the way.

If you have a 72” sleeper you might could do the bunks front to back on one side and the shower and chemical toilet on the other side


or put the bunk over the cab like the slide in pickup campers . Then you’d have plenty of room for the shower and toilet and fridge .

 

I'm with Admiral Merchants and have a 150 inch sleeper, avatar is my current truck. It's the closest thing to having your own authority (which I do also) No problem finding loads. I can haul up to 42K with this truck but rarely haul anything over 30K.

Majority of my loads are 10K to MAYBE 15K total. I like light loads so I'm not buying brakes, tires, suspension parts, wearing out my engine, etc. I've spent the last several years finding light high paying loads bigger sleeper trucks can run and it's worked out well for me.

Now if ONLY finding a husband was as easy...LOL, but that's a completely different thread!

Sophia

 

You can put a 120” sleeper on a set back axle tractor with a 280” wheel base, less weight. Buy a aluminum flat that weighs 8000 and you not any heavier , or longer than a w9 with a steel trailer.