'Home from home' in cabs
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• Most drivers yearn for an extra home comfort in their cab, hut few realise that in most cases they could have it for less than £100.
This is what Commercial Motor discovered after interviewing drivers as they took their break at Truckworld the stop near Dartford off the M25.
Driver Dennis Earclley of Chippendale Kitchens in Scunthorpe, was typical of others in our survey. He would like a light at both ends of his cab: "Sometimes you need to lie at the other end to where the bunk light is. If you are parked on a camber, you do not want your head lower than your feet." says Earclley.
He could also do with some where to put his TV in his MAN 190. "I have to
Eardley Finds it awkward with one bunk light.
put a towel under the TV at the moment to stop it sliding off the dash," he says. The cost of making Eardley's life in the cab more comfortable, with these two extras, would be around £200, according to prices from Altrincham-based bodybuilder S Cartwright & Sons and Manchester-based electrical engineer AES.
Drivers Robert Robinson and William Woodley of Castleford-based Turners Transport would like more cupboard space in their Volvo FL10s. Such an addition could cost around £60: "It would be good to have some where to store our cases and clothes," says Woodley.
We list prices of other items
drivers wanted. If, like many others, you drive the same truck every day it could be worth it.