Sleeping setup in your pickup.

lol, then you need a bed thats 75x75. Nothing says you cant go larger lol.

 

When I open the door, I'm legal lengthwise, and the sleeping quarter is more than adequately ventilated. They don't say anywhere that it has to be an enclosed space. Gotta love bureaucrats.

 

Be isolated from exhaust fumes

 

Sleep upwind of the exhaust pipe...

 

What fumes? Are you leaving your truck running at night?

 

I don't but I see many guys who do. I never liked the idea of idling an engine for hours. When I need heat, I run a generator (placed downwind from the truck

 

Terrible quality pics, due to poor lighting, but this is what I did in my rig. The way I executed, I was 1.25" short from meeting DOT regs on sleeper berth, but I log off duty anyways...but here is the pic without matress and bedding installed

This whole project took me about 2 weeks (because I planned, designed, and took my time, as I went along) and cost me right at $300, excluding matress material and bedding. I got everything at Home Depot and Hobby Lobby (the vinyl, the batting for padding, decorative pins, and upholstery staples .

 

As mentioned earlier, logging off duty it not legal unless you have a hotel receipt, a friend nearby that you could stay with or are at home. If sleeping in truck you cant log off duty. Its unlikely the dot man looking at your logs is gonna grab a tape measure, so you prob would be better off logging sleeper anyway. If he sees your logs with 10 hours off duty, that will immediately raise red flags

 

I have been logging off duty since the HOS changes, with a few level 1 inspections throughout, with no issues what so ever. Once he asks me for supporting documents, and I provide the ones I am legally suppose to provide, then that is that. He has no business inquiring what I am doing during my off duty...IF I say i slept in a hotel, then yes I have to provide a receipt, however, if I don't volunteer any unnecessary information, then he can't legal inquire about what I'm doing during my off duty....not to mention. I can technically sleep in the drivers lounge, all while claiming off duty for 10 hrs, jump in the seat and roll on.

There are way too many people assuming they know how the HOS changes affect people with less than legal sleeper, and in reality, only about 1% actually do know.

 

And actually the recent changes to the HOS specifically stated that the revision was to allow "off duty" to be performed in or on the truck, which was different than prior, in which you could not start or claim off duty if still present in the cab of the truck, or anywhere other than the sleeper or away from the truck...this was specifically done to aide "hotshot" drivers with less than legal sleepers to be able to serve their reset times, HOS violations, etc...maybe you should brush up on the laws before coming in here with the iron hammer