So can people take their seat with them from job to job?

The ISRI seats can just bolt directly onto the Cascadia riser, which is convenient if the riser plate has locking nuts on the other side, and one doesn't have the patience to deal with that. I know that ISRI and the oem cascadia are both made by ISRI, but for whatever reason, I found that some oem cascadia seats are just poorly made. It'd be great if I could just carry my self-purchased ISRI seat with me if I ever had to change driver jobs.

I think that the minimizer seats (I believe they could just bolt directly onto the riser) went out of business, but does anyone know if other seats are made to bolt directly onto the original oem cascadia riser? I'm fine with my ISRI seat, but it'd be nice to always keep a look out for others.

And do the ISRI models that have heat/cooling just use the same plug on the floor to power it? The plug for the OPS sensor in the seat is way thinner than the beefier one coming out of the floor into the black box behind the seat. I'd look this stuff up on the ISRI website myself, but it's all omitted.

 

Worst case scenario would be that's it's just the cost of doing business, and then you'd part ways. Compared to the tools that other trades use, dropping 2-3k every 5 years is pretty low. It's a shame that it's not a thing in the industry. But the market is large enough because there are tons of aftermarket seats and isri dealers in the country, and they aren't all being used by owner operators who have the choice to install anything they want.

The seat pan with the cushion btw is just held by two little torx screws in the front, and there 4 white pegs that keep the seat pan in place. It takes less than 5 min to swap it out, and they typically only last 3-4 years before they get deformed or the fabric gets scrunched up into the seams.

 

Maybe companies ought to start. Who knows, maybe there is a psychological benefit to owning a piece of equipment in the truck in that the driver would take better care of the equipment.

 

I figured that it'd be the smaller companies that stay away from the lease companies. Sysco, UPS, Saia are no obvious no's