Not sure if things have changed, but in my day the DND drivers hated a truck if it came with a sleeper. The DND did not have sleepers back then, but occasionally the rentals would. That meant you were not staying in hotels, and were showering at the truck stops. And if there were two drivers, then you were almost "hot bunking" it, with an expected 16 hours of roadtime per day.
Seemed like our trucks would get a lot of options even the civvys wouldn't bother with (electric adjustable westcoast "moto-mirrors", self adjusting air brakes, and hotsy hot start coolant heaters) while the trucks wouldn't even be equipped with AM-FM radios. How times have changed...I see a TV in that sleeper.
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