Truck design.

No worries ol’ booty, i’ll look after ya! :wink:

Lucy:

Although I do think some of you ideas have been tried, wasn’t there a version of the Magnum with where the bed area could be converted into a dinning table and 2 seats…

Iveco did it with the Stralis as well, along with the revolving passenger seat.

and they still do, sat in it typing this and had my tea sat at the table, lot better than balancing things on the steering wheel :sunglasses: :sunglasses: :sunglasses:

wasn’t there a article in T&D a few years ago where a German caravan company (hobby I think) designed modules to fit in a actros cab, bunk was designed to fit length ways down passenger side with modules underneath the bed for hob/sink. looked to complicated to me, last thing you want to do after a 15 hour day is start playing with a big rubiks cube in the cab.

Went wrong

Once you have your bunk made up the last thing you want to do is get all the bedding of to start fafing about making into table and chairs. It’s bad enough just trying to get into the under bed storage as it is. Might be a good idea for a truck interior designer to actually spend a week down the road and see what it’s really like, rather than trying to advance their career by creating some half arsed ill though out whim.

They can start out with better curtains on most of the trucks I have ever driven.

Jeff…

Nice post !

Zetorpilot:
I agree completely. The firm I work for has five vehicles, 2x Daf, MAN, , Iveco and Volvo. It’s only in the Iveco where one can comfortably make a sandwich, even! The worst is the MAN, which has a huge cab but there is nowhere flat to actually put anything apart from the floor. The Daf has a cab that approaches being usable, for example the centre cupboard above the windscreen takes a microwave easily but it still lacks somewhere to cut slices off a loaf! Almost all of the trucks I see on long haul work sport some kind of aftermarket table or tables, they are so ubiquitous that one would have thought that the manufacturers would by now at least realised that it could be worth their starting to put at least some effort into making useable cab interior designs.

Was the Daf an XF or CF?
The XF has a really good table that you pull out from the dash,sit on the bunk and eat your dinner off it :smiley:

Wasn’t the company that makes the kitchen/bathroom units called Motis?

the XF has the pull out table you mention .

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Zetorpilot:
I agree completely. The firm I work for has five vehicles, 2x Daf, MAN, , Iveco and Volvo. It’s only in the Iveco where one can comfortably make a sandwich, even! The worst is the MAN, which has a huge cab but there is nowhere flat to actually put anything apart from the floor. The Daf has a cab that approaches being usable, for example the centre cupboard above the windscreen takes a microwave easily but it still lacks somewhere to cut slices off a loaf! Almost all of the trucks I see on long haul work sport some kind of aftermarket table or tables, they are so ubiquitous that one would have thought that the manufacturers would by now at least realised that it could be worth their starting to put at least some effort into making useable cab interior designs.

Was the Daf an XF or CF?
The XF has a really good table that you pull out from the dash,sit on the bunk and eat your dinner off it :smiley:

Wasn’t the company that makes the kitchen/bathroom units called Motis?

Sorry, I didn’t notice this before. XF. And that’s what I do, but I find it very far from ideal. It’s quite a lean forward to get close enough to the table!