Prime lightweight trucks and leg room for taller drivers?

When I was with prime, if you were a large individual you could request a condo truck. But that also meant you lose out on like 5c a mile or something. Not sure if they still do it this way.

 

U should've have Lawyered up....that's Height Discrimination

Ain't that so @shogun?

 

LW trucks have no cabinets, no place to set anything down except the bunk, the floor, and the seats. You can set a laptop on your stomach while laying in bed and watch TV that way.

Search YouTube for John Ogren. He's a tanker driver for Prime. He has many videos including one which shows the inside of his LW truck. I think he's sleeps at home most nights of the week. IIRC he MIGHT sleep in the truck 1 or sometimes 2 nights in a week.

 

Height discrimination and skinny discrimination. That's some serious lawsuit money!!!


In all seriousness, I would take the mini sleeper with the extra 5c/mi all day long. I did all 48 with the thing. I had an old pete 386 though and it at least had cabinet space. The freightliners don't look much more than a daycab. I'm also a small dude though so the small bunk was liveable for me.

 

I’ve run my 36” bunk all over the place. Crap when i was leased up to LS i stayed out for three weeks. You learn to adjust, and yes pulling the passenger seat is the beat thing you can do. Omg it opens up so much room.

Just remember you have to laydown to get dressed and step outside to change your mind

 

My first truck was a Lightweight Pete 384 with a 39" sleeper and an 11 liter Cummins ISM. It was like a shoebox inside it did have some shelving but there was no room and you couldn't stand up. The fuel mileage wasn't all that great and the engine had NO power whatsoever it would look at a hill and slow down everyone would blow my doors off going uphill and everywhere else. And what I'd give to run one more load in that truck I loved it I miss it and even though it wasn't the best business decision there's times I wish I would have bought it. Mind you when I was assigned that truck I was fresh out of training and I thought having a smaller sleeper was going to be a large issue for me. I even tried explaining a BS story that I was claustrophobic yet the truck I enjoyed the most out of any in my career was easily the smallest and the slowest. Sometimes the things that you initially think are very important aren't.

 

Don't be a wussie. At least you had smartphones with unlimited internet, gps, Google maps with satellite views to plan ahead, Sirius radio, APU's, flatscreen TV's, PlayStation 4, ABS, power steering, modern suspension that doesn't beat you to death, a coffee maker, an inverter, a dorm refrigerator/freezer combo unit loaded with groceries and frozen dinners, a microwave, a lap top, a bluray player, about 300 movies and every seasion of all your favorite TV shows on disk.

 

Im pretty close to that. I have had no trouble in the older Reos or autocars and the like. But getting on in years I need me the condo.

With the proper sleeper you can put a fridge inside a cabinet there, a TV here and everything else all over. Just CAT the whole thing to find your Tare.

I ran a small Sanyo Dual voltage truckstop TV from about the 1998 era until it finally burned out two years ago. It survived 9-11 with the loss of the two speakers when the towers fell with that deep bass over live television. Speakers were replaced. Entertainment was limited because getting rest was priority.