Drivers seat is killing my back, company doesn't care

Hey I just started with a new company recently and they are very big on safety. They don't want illegal logging (which I am happy about even though a lot of drivers like to push the limits to make more money... I like making more money but not working over 70. 70 hours a week is enough!).

But despite all their safety policies, daily safety messages, cramming stuff into our heads about safety during orientation; i've been getting on their case trying to get through to them about an overdo oil change/PM needing to get done, as well as my drivers seat pushing my back in and they don't seem to care.

This is my only complaint about the company I'm working for now, I'm super impressed otherwise and would like to make this my career home but snow/ice is basically here now and I don't need to be sitting a little sideways and crunched forwards; and constantly shifting positions in my driver's seat in ice.

Let alone good weather. It's not safe.

They've said they are going to get me in to get it "fixed", but thanksgiving is throwing a wrench into that and i guess that's to be expected (except for telling them about this over a week ago).

I believe I can deal with it a few more days but not much more than that. But I've been looking at seats on the internet today and I found out how expensive air seats are. Is it even likely that they'll actually fix the seat or are they just stringing me along??

At first it wasn't that bad but each day I sit on this bad seat my back is getting tighter and tighter, making shifting/manuevering tougher because I can't sit comfortably.

If it gets to the point where I can't handle it I will tell them I'm not driving till they fix it and if they have a problem with that i'll have to leave which will really put me in a bad career spot but my cdl/life is number one and with the hard work i've done so far to get where I am today and get the experience I've got if I have an accident because my back is knotted up by the seat it's still my fault for driving so it will be on me.

I don't need a preventable accident. I have a perfect record and I want to keep it that way.

I've tried "every possible combination" of position/adjustment in the seat and nothing seems to work. I've lowered the air. I've aired it up.

I've put pillows between my back and the seat, it's just not mattering, something's definitely wrong with the seat. I've sat in the passenger side seat too (hoping swapping it would solve the problem) but that's not much better. The truck has close to a million miles and it was run as a team so both seats got plenty of sitting in them.

Personally i think they should put a new one in (cost of doing business). I think they make enough money to make an effort to keep driver's happy. That's all i will ask of them... comfortable seat. Other than that all the trucking bs that most people complain about i'm used to now. I've learned to look at trucking like this: it is what you make of it.

Sorry for being longwinded here. Is there anything that can be done myself to fix the seat or is there a way I can buy a REALLY REALLY CHEAP SEAT MYSELF (if they don't fix it)??

Im quite sure if they don't replace it with a new one that their "fix" won't fix anything it's just that worn out.

Thanks for any advice you can offer me.

Sorry to be asking for advice so close before thanksgiving i just definitely don't need to be driving in snow tomorrow with this seat, let alone all the days upcoming where it's just getting pushed further and further down the road for getting fixed.

Another thing I can't understand is why would a trucking company be so ok to let their truck be overdo for an oil change/pm? If i owned a truck I would get it in EARLY. Not really really late? (That's not my big concern though, if the truck blows up it's on them because I've qc'd it enough that it needs to get in and they don't seem to care).

Other than the seat issue I am way happier at this company than I ever have been at any company.

I see some real potential for getting my life together, saving up, reaching my goals if i stay here for a while.

But with this seat issue not being resolved that's not going to be possible.

 

forgot to ask, are air seats universal somewhat?

i've looked at how they are set up and it seems like a frame with the seat's "gizmos" has a rail on it and than there's a nother rail below so if i bought a seat maybe i could unbolt the four bolts and hopefully another seat with all it's gizmos would just bolt on to the existing platform or "frame?" underneath the seat itself?

not sure if the bolts would line up or if the rails on different seats are different widths?

i have a freightliner century (believe 2005) and it's got probably a stock seat. Definitely nothing fancy.

 

You assume too much.

I have driven much older trucks. They are extremely comfortable to me. It's the stupid over-complicated over-technologized seats that my back has a problem with. More technology means more that can go wrong.

I could handle driving in the 70s.

I have driven trucks with no power steering. I've hauled oversized loads, double trailers, and stuff that makes your average 53 foot trailer look like a car.

But I don't have an ego issue either.

I will never be a super trucker. Don't want to be.

Super truckers are the first to wind up in the ditch. The ones who think they've done it all and are the best and know better than everyone else.

I'm not assuming anything about you just fyi.