SAIA | BOSE seats

maverick50

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Is anyone as tired of these seats as I am? I move the seat back, move the set up, change the angle of the seatback and I still can't get comfortable. I tried a pillow on my back and a gel seat for the bottom. Nothing works. By the time Friday comes around, I can hardly walk. Of course, no one in charge will listen to my problems. Anyone have any tips?
 
Get a different truck.

BTW...last time I checked (3 years ago) the BOSE seats were $7000 each. I'll go out on a limb and say there is no way Saia is going to fork out that kind of cash for equipment that is shared by other drivers. It would be a different story if you had your own dedicated tractor that no one else used and you had like 3000000 safe miles.
 
Even the International seat was better than this. If they would give me a different truck, buck I would drive it. I look at the passenger side seat and wish I was sitting in that. At my terminal, you are assigned a truck and that is what you drive, Period.
 
R l carriers got those bose seat in all our truck some people like and some don’t when new truck come in they already have they in
 
Is anyone as tired of these seats as I am? I move the seat back, move the set up, change the angle of the seatback and I still can't get comfortable. I tried a pillow on my back and a gel seat for the bottom. Nothing works. By the time Friday comes around, I can hardly walk. Of course, no one in charge will listen to my problems. Anyone have any tips?

Don't have an answer to your question Maverick, never sat on a Bose, back in my days Bostrom was the big name,
I hated it, I liked the National, other drivers preferred the Bostrom.
Kinda like Fords and Chevys, just an opinion, but you can bet the farm on this, any thing you put your fanny on today will
be a lot better than we had back in the 50s.
 
When I was with r+l we had them in some trucks. It felt like the cushion under your butt was like sitting on a piece of plywood and it continually hopped up and down.... drove me freaking NUTS all night. I would turn it off and then my butt would hurt after about 20 min. It was good doing short runs to LIS cause the roads sucked but on a long run, I preferred the old international with the stock seat, way more comfortable imo.
 
Don't have an answer to your question Maverick, never sat on a Bose, back in my days Bostrom was the big name,
I hated it, I liked the National, other drivers preferred the Bostrom.
Kinda like Fords and Chevys, just an opinion, but you can bet the farm on this, any thing you put your fanny on today will
be a lot better than we had back in the 50s.

I was a big fan of the old Bostrom seat before they went to air. Mechanical height adjustment with hydraulic firmness in my opinion beats any air ride seat. I liked a seat low but firm, can't get that with the air seats I'm familiar with.
 
I also prefer a vinyl or naugahyde cover to cloth. Keeps the juices out of the foam.
We had a driver in Char. that got a patent on a devise he called (The Super Seat) it was genuine sheepskin.
It would keep your fanny dry, some of the NASCAR teams put them in the race cars.
I used a plain old vinyl cool cushion.
I agree with you on the old hydraulic seat, they stayed where you adjusted them and not bounce you around
 
We had a driver in Char. that got a patent on a devise he called (The Super Seat) it was genuine sheepskin.
It would keep your fanny dry, some of the NASCAR teams put them in the race cars.
I used a plain old vinyl cool cushion.
I agree with you on the old hydraulic seat, they stayed where you adjusted them and not bounce you around

A lot of the guys I worked with carried sheepskins. I did the vinyl cool cushion thing like you. If I recall correctly it was made by Rubbermaid, indestructible and effective. I also agree on the too much bounce in air seats.
 
Do not know what brand seat I am riding on (holland freightliner) but several of us were about crippled. One of our drivers got relief from a memory foam cushion he bought at loves. I purchased one and after about 1 week I was much better and after 2 weeks I was pain free. they are about 3 inches thick and formed to your rear, cost about $30. hope this helps
 
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