My mate drives 13 tonner day cab its got pull down bed he spends 2 to 3 nights away a week is it legal I thought you had to be distance away from the steering wheel it use to be my father in law in 1970 got told by police he could not sleep on pull down bed to close to wheel
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doogiee:
My mate drives 13 tonner day cab its got pull down bed he spends 2 to 3 nights away a week is it legal I thought you had to be distance away from the steering wheel it use to be my father in law in 1970 got told by police he could not sleep on pull down bed to close to wheel
Here we go again. Pop corn anybody?
Here’s another one: 
Own Account Driver:
This?
Really?
Yep.
You could do 5 nights a week sleeping in the ■■■■■■■ drivers seat if you were stupid enough to agree to it, the law has no involvement.
It has got a legal involvement ! … 18 inches from the steering wheel, that has been the law for decades in the UK.
Try telling the guys who have been charged for sleeping in a day cab over the years, I personally was dragged out of a Ford D series day cab on Swifts in Knottingley when parked outside Rockware glass one night when my Volvo F7 was being repaired, as it happens one of the guys there was in a Ford Transcontinental and I got in his top bunk, it was either that or find a hotel.
Pat Hasler:
It has got a legal involvement ! … 18 inches from the steering wheel, that has been the law for decades in the UK.
Try telling the guys who have been charged for sleeping in a day cab over the years, I personally was dragged out of a Ford D series day cab on Swifts in Knottingley when parked outside Rockware glass one night when my Volvo F7 was being repaired, as it happens one of the guys there was in a Ford Transcontinental and I got in his top bunk, it was either that or find a hotel.
hi pat. 
you do make me guffaw,however did drivers sleep in their cabs before sleeper cabs?as you well know ive slept many a happy hour across the engine cover.
dew:
Own Account Driver:
This?
Really?
Yep.
You could do 5 nights a week sleeping in the [zb] drivers seat if you were stupid enough to agree to it, the law has no involvement.
Not so.
Minimum Daily Rest: Normally 11 consecutive hours.
Rest periods can be taken in a vehicle if that vehicle has a bunk and is stationary.
doogiee:
it use to be my father in law in 1970 got told by police he could not sleep on pull down bed to close to wheel
Most drivers in the 70s, and a lot in the 80s, only had day cabs on tramping and slept across the engine cover on a board and mattress, it’s just what you did then as you knew nothing else, so I find your comment hard to believe.
robroy:
doogiee:
it use to be my father in law in 1970 got told by police he could not sleep on pull down bed to close to wheelMost drivers in the 70s, and a lot in the 80s, only had day cabs on tramping and slept across the engine cover on a board and mattress, it’s just what you did then as you knew nothing else, so I find your comment hard to believe.
Very hard!
My Ford D series just had a couple of scaffolding planks and an air bed! Luxury! I actually had more space and a better nights sleep than the dog kennel you got on the back of a Bedford TK.
See, this is what happens when a MMTM comment becomes law to a lot of drivers. Same as the EU directive saying that all tramper drivers need a cab they can stand up in or you can’t take your break when your sitting in the driving seat.
Mind you, with all the stupid and nonsensical laws and directives coming from Westminster or Brussels I can see how these rumours can be taken as fact.
And in the summer a tent under the sheet made with pallets , H&S my arse
So how does that work for me?
When I was a kid I second manned in an ERF with a semi-day cab (fold in half bed). Would be out 4 days a week, 2 days in one truck, 2 in another. The loads were handball loads.
Driver had the bed in the cab, I kipped in the back, in the curtainside body.
Sometimes the body was empty, other times I’d kip on top of pallets of load.
A couple of times I had a hammock under the body/next to the chassis.
Loved it.
Owner driver friends who used to do Europe in 70’s and 80’s, usually pulling tilts, told me in the summer, they would push out a roof support board or two then climb onto the trailer roof and sleep, very comfortably, on the tilt sheet where the boards were out forming a hammock.
Nice view of the stars, but not so good when a sudden heavy shower came on.
One time I hammocked under the body, the driver woke up in the morning and, forgetting where I was (he says), fired the motor up to build the air up. Exhaust pipe pointing at my head. ■■■■
Driveroneuk:
Owner driver friends who used to do Europe in 70’s and 80’s, usually pulling tilts, told me in the summer, they would push out a roof support board or two then climb onto the trailer roof and sleep, very comfortably, on the tilt sheet where the boards were out forming a hammock.Nice view of the stars, but not so good when a sudden heavy shower came on.
Plus when you got down in the morning, you looked like a chimney sweep, not my idea of heaven.
I used to do a couple of nights out a week in a day cab. Cobbled some half decent curtains together that went up in minutes and I slept soundly across the double seats.
Used to ■■■■ myself at the stories about it being illegal and not being 18 inches from the steering wheel. Like plod is going to be booking me into a hotel in the middle of the night.
truckyboy:
Driveroneuk:
Owner driver friends who used to do Europe in 70’s and 80’s, usually pulling tilts, told me in the summer, they would push out a roof support board or two then climb onto the trailer roof and sleep, very comfortably, on the tilt sheet where the boards were out forming a hammock.Nice view of the stars, but not so good when a sudden heavy shower came on.
Plus when you got down in the morning, you looked like a chimney sweep, not my idea of heaven.
If the trailer was loaded and presumably sealed,how the ■■■■ did they get inside to “push out a roof board or two”?
If it was empty . . sleep in the back.
i used to do 4-5 nights out every week in one of these, (not my original motor, just pics from the net) a 79-14 Iveco, for around 1.5yrs, until i got a Cargo sleeper cab, i took the backrest from the double passenger seat out and it was a lot lot wider and reasonably comfortable, i slept with my head at the passenger side end of the cab. homemade curtains were fitted as well. It was a D reg, and a bag of nails, but i went all over the country every week in it, Cornwall to Scotland and everywhere inbetween.
i can see loads of x dents from gamblinghay having a right laugh at that. that’s all the old man ever bought. erf’s with a fold down bunk and blokes would weekend away in them occasionally.