Freightliner So, this is a phony sleeper door?

Sam McCloud

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It looks like maybe where it would be cut if they were to install one.

If you look under the carpet on the hump in the floor in a pickup with an automatic trans, there will be a rounded rectangle shape pressed into the sheet metal where they'd cut the hole for the shifter if it was a manual.

Same thing I'm guessing.
 
So most cascadias have a line that makes it look like it’s there but most don’t have it. I worked for freightliner for almost 10 years. Leaving in 2017 to become a truck driver. That’s why when people started saying they had a full escape door I was shocked because I have never seen one on a cascadia.
 
It seems that in 2019 there is still a huge loophole in company driver safety even in 2019.
So most cascadias have a line that makes it look like it’s there but most don’t have it. I worked for freightliner for almost 10 years. Leaving in 2017 to become a truck driver. That’s why when people started saying they had a full escape door I was shocked because I have never seen one on a cascadia.

Which makes me love PACCAR all the more. Apparently, Volvo, Freightliner and others think their cabs/berths are smoke-proof, electrical-overload-proof and fireproof. How arrogant of them. I bet these sleeper-door-less tractors are a b_tch to load your gear and supplies too.
 
It seems that in 2019 there is still a huge loophole in company driver safety even in 2019.


Which makes me love PACCAR all the more. Apparently, Volvo, Freightliner and others think their cabs/berths are smoke-proof, electrical-overload-proof and fireproof. How arrogant of them. I bet these sleeper-door-less tractors are a b_tch to load your gear and supplies too.
I can't reach high enough to load through a sleeper door so it makes no difference to me.

Besides, it's not a convenience hatch anyway. It's not a camper.
 
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It seems that in 2019 there is still a huge loophole in company driver safety even in 2019.


Which makes me love PACCAR all the more. Apparently, Volvo, Freightliner and others think their cabs/berths are smoke-proof, electrical-overload-proof and fireproof. How arrogant of them. I bet these sleeper-door-less tractors are a b_tch to load your gear and supplies too.
Maybe you need to research a bit more and spout off a bit less.

@r3gulator3 assessment of you is proving spot on.
 
I personally do load stuff thru the egress door but it’s the same door I open to acces the compartment under my bunk there. If it wasn’t there I’d pile everything up in the passenger seat then get in and move it to the bunk. I dunno how much crap you’d be hauling along with you that you’d need to be loading tons of stuff through the door. Seriously my whole life fits in a gym bag, a barracks bag, one plastic collapsible tote, and a couple grocery sacks of food. And the only thing that leaves my truck with me when at home is dirty laundry, my off duty shoes, and the plastic tote so I can stuff it with groceries to haul back to the truck.
 

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