Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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Custom Rigs Super, super sleeper by Todd Dills The sleeper contains a full-size bed, shower, easy chair and more. W Davis started the customization in 2000 after he found the truck sitting in a salvage yard north of his home. When he bought the Freightliner, it didn't have an engine or transmission in it – but today it's powered by a 3406 Cat that Davis purchased from a farmer near his home. Text INFO to 205-289-3555 or visit www.ovdinfo.com hen Melvin Davis Jr. came back into the trucking business after falling upon a rough patch in 2009 owning a small fleet, he returned with just one unit – the 320-inch-wheelbase 1988 Freightliner pictured here. The sleeper, though, is the showpiece of Davis' own custom fabrication. "I bought two flattop standup 60-inch factory Freightliner sleepers," he says, and "took the back off one and the front off the other," then mated them together for a massive on-highway living quarters built "to my specs." The bunk features "a full-size bed just like the one you'd have at your house, a full-size shower, an easy chair with a computer station," Davis says. There's a big closet with a refrigerator in it at the front corner on the driver's side, a "big storage space between the cab and the shower" on the passenger side, he adds, and cabinets with a microwave and convection oven, likewise on the passenger side. "Everywhere I go, it seems like I turn heads," he says. 76 | Overdrive | March 2013 Melvin_Davis.indd 76 2/28/13 12:16 AM