Advice on Outfitting T680 Sleeper

Refrigerator and inverter for sure. Curtains that cover the front windshield and side windows. A innerspring mattress with a topper out of memory foam.

 

Proper maintenance and reliability are the most important items to this driver. All of the bells and whistles don't mean a thing when a driver is sitting on the side of the interstate waiting for a hook. Maintain your equipment, offer proper breakdown pay and hotel accomodations. Breakdowns happen, compensate your driver's accordingly. My company pays 500 miles per 24 hours breakdown plus a hotel room. Crappy equipment and a lousy breakdown policy is the quickest way to pi ss off a driver. Remember......just because YOUR EQUIPMENT breaks down, don't expect your driver to eat it. Good luck. PS...I'll buy my own fancy pants mattress and refrigerator.

 

After refrigerators becoming a staple in sleepers going back to a truck without feels like being slammed in a prisoner of war camp. Inverters are a necessity too , a good mattress is essential though some drivers bring their own .

 

Absolutely the rest of the pay package might be good but once you find yourself on the shoulder waiting on a tow truck that's taking the truck to a dealership that's going to hold it hostage for 7 days and you realize you won't be getting breakdown pay.

 

Why don’t you be a driver for a while and see what you would like.

 

Curtains are standard equipment on sleeper cab trucks