Spent many months tramping in a Bedford TK unit when I first started. Slept across the seats, all my gear secured on the ‘parcel shelf’,all over the UK, France, Holland, Germany and Denmark-never thought anything of it and never had any problems-different times!
Mind I was disappointed when I realised that TK didn’t stand for Trans Kontinental! 
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We might have had it hard in the old days, armstrong steering, crash boxes, hard bonnets to sleep over, drafty cabs, inefficient, or absent, heaters, pile encouraging seats, ear crippling engine noise but we didn’t have all this nonsense to contend with. 
I once laid my gear across the bonnet of my Big J, pulled the curtains round and settled down to sleep outside the gates of an Inverness cemetary, when there was a knock on the door and a copper’s face appeared at the window. Hw wanted to know if I wanted the address of the local digs but I thanked him saying, ‘no need I have a sleeper cab’. At that he looked at the ‘bed’ and then at the curtains, shrugged his shouders and said ‘ok mate, sleep well’. And was gone. I slept the sleep of the dead, unsurprisingly given where I was parked. 
So the out of hours driver cannot stay in the wagon because there’s no bed, didn’t go to a hotel or B&B, cannot drive a car back to base if someone drove one to meet him or even be a passenger in that car. If he was only an hour from base could someone have driven a sleeper cab unit out to him to sleep in and the other driver take the rigid back ?
A very creative solution, I’d say yes, that would have worked.
It might have worked ‘if’ it was an option for the guvnor and it arrived on scene within the 13 or 15 hour limit.