Vehicle sleeper compartment bunk bed ladder

Apparatus comprising:

• an overhead berth;
• a horizontal support surface located below the overhead berth;
• a horizontal linear guide vertically spaced above the horizontal support surface, parallel to and along one side of the berth;
• a stowable ladder comprising a pair of vertical uprights, one of which is fixed at one end of the berth and the second of which is coupled to the horizontal linear guide and is translatable across the horizontal support surface;
• and
• the stowable ladder further comprising a plurality of rungs, each rung including a swing section having one end hinged to said fixed vertical upright and a free end movably mounted through the translating vertical upright, with the translating vertical upright positioned adjacent to the fixed vertical upright, the swing sections extend vertically and parallel to both the vertical uprights with the translating vertical upright sandwich between the fixed vertical upright and the vertically extending swing sections, and the swing sections being supported on the vertical uprights in a horizontal position between the pair of vertical uprights when the translatable vertical upright is positioned away from the fixed vertical upright.