Day cab curtains

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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saw a unit day cab today with frilly curtains half way across both windows :laughing: Are you allowed to have nights out in a day cab or are they just for show ?

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It could have a fold down bunk or couchette all perfectly legal, you donā€™t need a super douper space cab xl mega topline with all the mod cons to sleep in a truck, but having been at both ends of the scale the latter makes it easier.

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A l c:
saw a unit day cab today with frilly curtains half way across both windows :laughing: Are you allowed to have nights out in a day cab or are they just for show ?

Afaia its legal to have nights out in a day cab if its fitted with a bunk(fold down version)
Dont think ā€œfrilly curtainsā€ are compulsory though.

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I had factory fitted curtains in a daf cf, wasnt such a silly idea really, was nice to been able to pull them across the side windows when on lunch.

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Iā€™m going to put on my Super Pedantic hat here and point out that you canā€™t have a couchette in a truck, neither can you have one on a boat. By definition, a couchette is a bed on a train in mainland Europe. :wink:

Back to the original question, the driver probably just doesnā€™t want people taking photos of him while he is asleep and sending them to the Daily Wail.

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Harry Monk:
Iā€™m going to put on my Super Pedantic hat here and point out that you canā€™t have a couchette in a truck, neither can you have one on a boat. By definition, a couchette is a bed on a train in mainland Europe. :wink:

Back to the original question, the driver probably just doesnā€™t want people taking photos of him while he is asleep and sending them to the Daily Wail.

+1 :slight_smile:

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Harry Monk:
Iā€™m going to put on my Super Pedantic hat here and point out that you canā€™t have a couchette in a truck, neither can you have one on a boat. By definition, a couchette is a bed on a train in mainland Europe. :wink:

Back to the original question, the driver probably just doesnā€™t want people taking photos of him while he is asleep and sending them to the Daily Wail.

I bloody knew it would be you Harry! Hahaha

  1. A compartment on a European passenger train equipped with four to six berths for sleeping.
  2. A sleeping berth in one of these compartments.
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Harry Monk:
Iā€™m going to put on my Super Pedantic hat here and point out that you canā€™t have a couchette in a truck, neither can you have one on a boat. By definition, a couchette is a bed on a train in mainland Europe. :wink:

Back to the original question, the driver probably just doesnā€™t want people taking photos of him while he is asleep and sending them to the Daily Wail.

Saw a day cab skip lorry with cab curtains the other day.
It had a couch in the back . . may have been a sofa though :stuck_out_tongue:

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My humblest apologies for my mistake in thinking that a fold down bunk may be called a couchette terrible mistake, we are really lucky to have Harry know all things to point this out.

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I was out in a Scania unit today, an older '04 plate. The passenger seat was further back than usual and there was enough room to tilt the drivers seat back and a bunk there, folded up and out of the way but when folded down it would have stuck out over the steering wheel, that had curtains too so must be legal!

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A l c:
saw a unit day cab today with frilly curtains half way across both windows :laughing: Are you allowed to have nights out in a day cab or are they just for show ?

Curtains are fine, but why the gay frills?

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Iā€™ve always hated the idea of day cabs, had no idea they could have fold down beds in themā€¦

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On the subject of curtains i have loads of curtains from coaches that we converted to 70 seater school buses.
they are the depth of a coach window and about 7 ft long various colours blues reds orange ect just a length of old fashioned curtain wire atached in your cab i also have velcro and push fastener tie backs for them.

They are free exept the postage im not that generous lol
Anyone interested pm me

Im in the highlands this week so might not reply untill i get home
will try and post a piccy when im home

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sleep in a day cab what about the gear stick o i still have 1 by the way :unamused: and where do you put your bag i have a big one :smiley: with all my food and things i need and sleeping bag and are day cabs fitted with night heaters and how many would go to an interview and they say its couple of nights out a week and by the way its a day cab :open_mouth:

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A l c:
sleep in a day cab what about the gear stick o i still have 1 by the way :unamused: and where do you put your bag i have a big one :smiley: with all my food and things i need and sleeping bag and are day cabs fitted with night heaters and how many would go to an interview and they say its couple of nights out a week and by the way its a day cab :open_mouth:

I would ask if it was 3 or 4 star hotels they were putting me up inā€¦

Thenā€¦politely tell them to ā– ā– ā– ā–  off!!! :laughing:

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A l c:
they say its couple of nights out a week and by the way its a day cab :open_mouth:

Ask how much they pay for a hotel each night?

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A l c:
sleep in a day cab what about the gear stick o i still have 1 by the way :unamused: and where do you put your bag i have a big one :smiley: with all my food and things i need and sleeping bag and are day cabs fitted with night heaters and how many would go to an interview and they say its couple of nights out a week and by the way its a day cab :open_mouth:

How times have changed.
Sleeping bag and pillows were shoved behind the seats,night out bag was chucked in the passenger footwell and if it got a bit chilly the engine was left running(unless you had one of those portable heaters that ran on some kind of surgical spirit) :sunglasses: :laughing:

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Suedehead:

A l c:
sleep in a day cab what about the gear stick o i still have 1 by the way :unamused: and where do you put your bag i have a big one :smiley: with all my food and things i need and sleeping bag and are day cabs fitted with night heaters and how many would go to an interview and they say its couple of nights out a week and by the way its a day cab :open_mouth:

How times have changed.
Sleeping bag and pillows were shoved behind the seats,night out bag was chucked in the passenger footwell and if it got a bit chilly the engine was left running(unless you had one of those portable heaters that ran on some kind of surgical spirit) :sunglasses: :laughing:

Yes thatā€™s why lots of us have bad backs and walk like we have (zb) our pants when we get out the cab :laughing:

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I got curtains in my 6t sprinter , got a hatch that goes up in the luton of the body of the truck , if I know i am on a night away ,I chuck a full size single mattress in the luton body , close the flap up and im sealed away from the truck body , also have night heater .I do not have many nights away but I like the curtains to seal away ay one from windows just incase im getting dressed , There are a lot of pervert tipper drivers around :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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JAKEY:
I got curtains in my 6t sprinter , got a hatch that goes up in the luton of the body of the truck , if I know i am on a night away ,I chuck a full size single mattress in the luton body , close the flap up and im sealed away from the truck body , also have night heater .I do not have many nights away but I like the curtains to seal away ay one from windows just incase im getting dressed , There are a lot of pervert tipper drivers around :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Would you be good enough to tell us in advance where your parking up. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: