Trucks

I'm glad it's not only me then. I've got a 2013 Cascadia with the base tier original seat. As of late my lower backs been really killing me along with my rear-end...

I'll be switching companies here in a few weeks and I'm getting a new Cascadia. I guess I'll try the factory seat but I'm thinking it will be worth it to invest in a nice aftermarket one to put it. My current truck makes me walk around like I'm crippled after driving a while.

 

Some companies have lower spec passenger seats to save money. Wait and see what you get she might be ok with just a gel pad etc

 

It's a chair with some padding bolted down to the floor.

 

Bose has a pretty good seat. There's another one, but can't remember the name. Some 0/0's will probably post it.
@double yellow

 

Just remembered it; Bostrom is the name.

Google for prices on new & used big rig seats.

 

I do not stay long in a cab that has a poor quality seat.

I had to sit and think about seating inside a 18 wheeler for a time before responding here. I have always allowed the seat to float back and forth as well as allowing a certain amount of air to keep it at a certain ride height which is somewhere the bent knees allowed.

Once in a while I lock that seat really harsh. Espcially when doing battle with the clutch in pulling tandem because a slip of it anywhere is likely to get someone killed or whole lot worse.

One of these days Im going to find me a decent used seat and feed it with a air compressor under the Computer desk. Certain joints protest more in abundance these days.

Only once has a seat failed me and that was on Staten Island before the Verrazano Bridge in those days was accessed at 90 mph through the closed toll booths as a deterrance to known crime that preyed on anyone too stupid to keep going without stopping on that upper level.

There was a series of three 72 plus inch pipe under the 3 lane divided highway near what I recall as the Fishkill Landfill. Anyway these pipe was angled at around 40 degrees instead of going directly across the highway underneath.

I hit the first one at 70 caught air, crashed into the second one, caught more air and wrapped myself around the steering wheel in that old 83 Freighliner COE with the 288 cummins big cam on a 10 speed eaton. That third smash tossed me across the cab seat and all.

That was also the very last time I used that cursed road. To this day I wonder if there is injury yet to be detected from that terrible day.

 

Within a few months of getting back into trucking I developed pain in my lower back that ran down my left leg. Old man walk? Check. Several minutes to get out of bed and sit upright? Check.

That was also in a Cascadia with the base model seat. I went through a couple hundred bucks of various cushions and weeks of excruciating pain, to the point I thought I might have to give up driving.

Finally I got a Magic Gel seat cushion at about $80 for the medium thickness, then opened it up and went to work modifying it to get improved circulation in my legs. I also adjusted the seat to sit upright with a downward tilt. It made a world of difference, but took a couple of months for the pain to completely disappear. I've been pain free for four years now.

 

The basic Cascadia seats are really uncomfortable. I bought an aftermarket seat and it was well worth the cost to be comfortable.

 

@Lepton1 - I know exactly what you mean. Pain in that left leg. Now mine switches back and forth; right leg/left leg. Never know when the switch will happen; could be a week or 3 weeks or 2 days. That downward tilt on the seat does wonders. At home I sit in a wooden dining room chair to watch tv or use the computer. I hate to not be able to sit in a nice soft chair or couch; but, those days are over.