It locks in to the wall, to stow it and get the bottom bunk back you just pull the handle and swing it forward and down. The mattress is a four piece jobbie that makes up the seat sections, it’s a bloody comfy bed too and it only takes a minute to set up the table or vice versa.
If it makes you feel any better mine is the slightly smaller version of the one in the picture, I don’t have the window downstairs and my cupboards are slightly narrower
I had one similar in a 52 plate FH, 4 cushions made the bed, 2 each side made a seat with the table in the middle, it was brilliant, i really liked it, especially being weekended, kinda strange, but sitting in one of the seats behind the front of the cab made it feel really spacious. The motor was a left ■■■■■■ import (500bhp, pulled like a train) so not sure if it was/is available in the UK with this option.
I saw it parked up outside Paris a few yrs later, on Romanian plates.
Think it was offered as the ‘Office Pack’ but Volvo dropped it with the last FH version with the split headlights, this being offered with the swivel passenger seat. Don’t think that many produced so could become quiet rare in future. As for the tables, I’ve had them since version 1 FH and never found them to be a cause of blindspot, unlike version 2’s mirrors but theres one going into the new R410 tomorrow no problem.Happy days!
I had one of those turbocompound 500 FH12s, they pulled like a train, but liked a drop of diesel. Mine had I-shift with an integrated retarder, it was a lovely lorry, only a Globetrotter, not an XL, but more than enough for the job.
Before that I had a 144, that had those tables on the dash, for about 20secs anyway, they came straight out, they caused a massive blind spot and in a left ■■■■■■ that’s the last thing you need driving in the UK.
One of my drivers made his own for one of my Stralis, it was ridiculous, he was a night man on a regular trunk to S Wales, so it wasn’t as bad as a day driver using it. I didn’t kick up a fuss, but did wonder wtf he needed it for as all my Stralis had the table that folded down off the back wall of the cab, not only that, he drove there, dropped and swapped, took a 45 and drove back to the yard, quite why he needed two tables is beyond me