New Scania R-Series and that slide-out bed. That's better says Biglorryblog!

Now it has to be said that yours truly has had the odd grumble of three about the old DIY bottom bunk on the Scania R cab which had to be built up using extra bits of foam and slide out trays. Well with the arrival of new R-Series the good folk at Sodertalje have finally done something about it - and not before time!

Their solution? Well having rejected any thoughts of extending the back of the cab they've come up with a slide-out bunk with a mattress that extends from around 780mm wide in the closed position to 900mm by the pull of a handle. And here's the clever part. It has a pocket spring matress too!

So how do you extend one of those? Easy by 'stretching' the webbing material between each spring pocket. The bed has been developed jointly with a Swedish bed manufacturer Stjarnfjadrar although I understand in English it's called 'Starfeather'. Anyroadup armed with my video camera and aided by Phil Rootham, technical sales engineer for Scania (Great Britain) Biglorryblog brings you the Scania extendible bed in action! Now click through here to the answer to the question you're probably got on your lips...