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There’s the Howard Johnson, then there’s the Hilton, then there’s giant sleeper units on classic conventional trucks. For owner-operators and drivers, it might be a tough call, especially when they see a custom rig done up like this one is. It is a looong studio sleeper here.
This truck is a Peterbilt 379 with a unibilt highrise cab, a custom hood, and that long sleeper, that’s actually factory from back in the day about 10 years ago. This truck — it’s husband-wife team owners that is — drove for Southern Pride, like many other big custom trucks. Actually, they might still be driving it for Southern Pride.
They were pulling aircraft engines with it for a while.
How long is the sleeper unit? 205 inches. 205. I’m not sure how many cubit feet that is, but it sounds like a room in an apartment.
Anyway, with a home on wheels like this, long hauls would not seem as long, you might guess, and when you wanted to head out for the outlying regions to do a little RVing, it would seem almost like a motorhome.
Or you could almost live in it.
No idea how much this one costs. Actually, I might not even want to know. Some trucks sort of seem to get to a point where the money isn’t really that interesting anymore.
And for all those people wondering if it weighs a tonne, and if it can corner, the answer, according to a lot of our page members, is they don’t weigh as much as you’d think, and once you try them, cornering isn’t that difficult either, so long as you’re not in a tight lot or something. Some people might be guessing 80,000 pounds, but these types of big sleeper semis are more like around 40,000.
