Rear window on sleeper question

You don't have anywhere near the visibility compared to a day cab, but it does brighten the interior. Doesn't help at all with backing imo.

 

Some of our truck at my company have the side and back windows in our 36" sleepers. Haven't driven them so I dont know about the visibility but I would think you could see out of them pretty good.

 

The ability to use the rear window of a non-sleeper is because the driver's seat is right there. The field of view is cut down greatly once the driver has to look through a window that is 4 feet away.

 

Guy I work with just got a 389 Pete with the 44'' flat top. We do A LOT of blindside backing so he ordered it with rear window and side window on passenger side. Says if he had to choose between the two that the rear window is most helpful and the side window is nice but if he didn't have it he wouldn't miss it. He had a 63'' bunk with a just rear window on the last truck and said that it was useless past 45 degrees. Says the rear window on the new one is so much closer he dips his head into the sleeper just a bit and can see trailer wheels just fine.

 

No problem!

 

LOL he's not my boss. I'm an owner operator he is a fellow owner operator at the company we both lease to.

 

A window can be spec'ed to go into the rear bulkhead of the sleeper but you give up a certain privacy.

If it is a dark sleeper you dislike, try one in which there is a huge sunroof over the cab instead. You can really brighten a sleeper along with the high level windows in the upper berth of the sleeper.

Never mind what the driver does with eyes while backing, If there is a window I will use it. Otherwise I'll just back her the same old way. It's no big deal backing. I realize it might be for some drivers. But to me I don't stress about it.

Ultimately you can have a interior installer professional put in small LED lighting designed to improve the mood of a dark and depressing sleeper to one you want to spend time in.