Are they suppose to give new mattress for your truck?

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  1. SteerTire

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  3. Moose1958

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    There are a lot of indignities when it comes to driving a truck. Expecting a clean tractor with a new mattress is not out of line. No law that I know of that says they have to do it. However, there is no law that says I can't walk away and go home, and I have done it. No APU? No cleaned out tractor? No mattress? NO ME!
     
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  4. SteerTire

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    I’m with you there. No one should drive a death trap or live in a possible hazardous environment.

    But the APU? I’ve only had one. Spent more time working on it, than running it.

    I’m about to get another one. Hopefully this one is better.
     
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  5. Moosetek13

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    I really don't have a problem with the cheap mattresses they provide, as long as I can replace it when I need to. That means when there is a dent from my behind from sitting in the same position, and after I have turned it a few times to even things out.

    When I can't avoid sleeping in a hole, I replace it.
     
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    Both of my S I joints are bad. I also have problems with my back in general. To this day I think it came from all those old mattresses I slept on.
     
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    It probably happened as a result of too many cat carries to the bars.
     
  8. nofreetime

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    Gross.

    As desperate for dirvers as the industry is they've got some brass to start things off on that foot. I'd give them back the keys unless I got a new mattress.
     
  9. DenBob

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    I always got a new mattress on request any time I was assigned a truck from any of the small number of companies I worked for.
    Which does not include Schneider.
     
  10. Dick Danger

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    Just as many, if not more desperate drivers.
     
  11. nofreetime

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    The shortage in the market shows otherwise.
     
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