My truck - my home?

I love sleeping in a truck. Just like sleeping on a boat, the noise puts you a sleep. I also like sleeping when a car is in motion as long as the driver does not brake hard just to pi$$ you off.

Nana,

I agree with you. I have had one sinus surgery and may have another due to them old geezers being clogged up. I'll idle next to you any day. Just let me be the gentleman and pick up the tab for tickets we accumulate.

KH

 

This is a very excitng thread as i may be also, for all practical purposes, living out of the truck as i am planning on going full-blown, hard-core OTR soon as i've never really done it----true fulltime OTR, not regional or local like i've always done.


Now,
1) i think the reason why you don't see anything larger than 72" sleeper on a company truck is mainly due to cost, not nessesarily size or weight reasons. Because today's OTR tractors are already too Gdam long to begin with.

i would be so happy with an 84" sleeper; i know freightliner used to offer one with the classic. i'm not sure if they still have one this deep. i think with a set-back axle or cabover you could still have good manuverability.

One of my ideas/fantasies is to spec a day cab, but with a long enough (but not too long) wheelbase to put a, say, 10'-12' box from a staight truck on this chassis. In other words, i'm using the cargo box as the sleeper. Then i would furnish this "sleeper" exactly the way i wanted it. i think this would be relatively cheap way to get some real homelike comfort if you plan on living on the road.

2) the tax implications of not having a permanent address is interesting; i will have to research this further. Incidentally, when and if i do eventually go hard-core OTR, i'll still have a permanent address.

 

I've been living in my truck for the past two years. I use my parents' address to file my taxes and have a separate mailbox for personal mail.

I have long thought about getting into the extended sleepers with shower/kitchen etc. Because of what everyone has said here, I'm not going to get into it unless I get hired on with specialty freight like trade shows and so forth. Those are usually the ones I see with the biggest sleepers.

I'm 6'1" and don't have any problem standing up in my truck with plenty of room to spare. I even have small step ladder because my fridge is mounted on the top bunk.

What I do is get a motel/hotel about once a week. It will depend on who you work for as to being able to do this comfortably without worrying about being called out. I do long haul and am due a reset almost every week. So I'll usually get a room for two nights, watch football, do laundry, go out somewhere, etc. I rent a car about every other month and go out and explore somewhere.

This is how I deal with being homeless. But everyone will have different financial constraints, and the company you work for can dictate your life for the most part if you let them. When I worked for JB Hunt, they once called the Highway Patrol out on me because I would not answer my qualcomm. The place I'm working now has no qualcomm.

 

OK I knew they did this, but here is a sleeper that is a stretched Peterbuilt (90") sleeper that has a shower and pot with kitchen and a Murphy bed. I would do this if I bought a slightly longer tractor. just add the 3w's to the front!

trucksleeper.com/Brochures/90%20PETERBILT%20FACTORY%20SLEEPER%20WITH%20ICT%20CONVERSION.pdf

 

Yes that 90" Peterbuilt sleeper has everything I would need to stay nice and comfy in! Just enough room and you wouldn't need to stretch the frame but 15" max! or just get a tractor with a 253-260" WB. Now IBC I do believe will do that for you for whatever it costs!

 

IMHO it all about the Net Weight. The more you can haul the more you can make. I have a small sleeper my Tare w/ Fuel is 24100, I load before I fuel so I normally load 56,000.

I would not work for one of the "lay over" companies. Drivers put up with too much ####.

 

I see alot more large sleepers today than a year ago.... any insight on this? I found a FL classic with an ARI 108" sleeper that I am interested in for my wife and I in the future... Seems if a team can get a dedicated account, that will work.

 

are you talking about condo type of truck?
Since you brought up this thread I see the OP stayed out for years on the road