Top bunk, don't do it, ever!!!

I "heard" they are developing a hammock type contraption that can be mounted under the trailer so they can take along 3 trainees!

 

What I remember is that the net restraint on the century went to the little clicks like seatbelt things attached to the side of the cab near the top. The net would stretch up from under the lower bunk covering that entire space to just above the top bunk. If I remember right.

Here is a generic view from a maker of restraint nets

Commercial Truck Restraints - IMMI

Look in this image along the bottom of the top bunk near left center of image you will see where one of the two seatbelt style latches hold the restraint. You can see there is no restraint whatsoever at all for the top bunk.

https://d1jhhxp9ktng1x.cloudfront.net/6/big/118426bg.jpg

 

My truck has one. I slept up there a few times. It wasnt that bad. Lol

I normally don't, and wouldnt without a restraint.. But its an exaggeration to say it cracks your skull and severs your liver and all that other stuff.

When I go out with new guys on a run they beat me up plenty fine on the bottom bunk with being hard on the controls. Maybe I'm used to it.

 

they use the same system for the UPPER bunk

in the pic YOU showed the seatbelt latch between the matters and rail on the UPPER BUNK is for the UPPER BUNK SAFETY NET to hook to.... it's not for the lower bunk.....!!!

btw in the video I posted you can see the safety net for the upper bunk

 

#### driver if the worst thing that happened to you out here in 6 weeks was gettin ur salad tossed in the upper bunk then id say u had a good 6 weeks. Some of them old timers that used to drive them cabovers , they would toss u around like u describe except ur the one thats drivin... U been out here 6 weeks and u say u already know the job and ur #### good at it.. This job humbles me everyday still . i pull a flatbed and just spent 3 hours the other day padding my frieght so i could throw a tarp over it without getting cut. Another 2 hours tarping, by the time i drove 900 miles to my delivery, the freight was cut threw my padding and my tarp , not to mention no matter how much i tightened down the freight it still moved on me , and i cut 3 straps along the way, and 2 more needed to be replaced afterwards even with edge protection.. Sometimes u can do everything ur supposed to do out here and #### still goes wrong.... Thats truckin for ya , its a humbling game. When u think u know u got this #### down just remeber a very valuable lesson is about to come ur way thru no fault of ur own. Thats why alot of new guys dont last , they cant take being humiliated everyday

 

I'm sure you beat the #### out of your trainer while you were learning to drive too.

 

@darinmac38 what does your employee hand book say about top bunk usage? US Xpress would fire the trainer if he were to ever allow the top bunk to be used while the truck was in motion. They made that clear when i went thru training class way back when.

Does your company have a policy on it?