I'm in a bit of hurry here as I'm typing this, and wasn't quite sure exactly where to stick this topic, so if one of the moderators feels like moving it to a "more appropriate" forum, by all means be my guest.
Anyway, I was just wondering if anybody knows where you can find a brand new, unused sleeper berth mattress? Be it in a truck stop shop, online, or in a common retail store, or anywhere else? Also, I'm not even sure what size to necessarily look for that would fit in the bed frame in the sleeper berth...? I think I've heard something like a Twin XL/Twin/or maybe even a Full?
I'm in school right now, and come October, will be starting my new career as a truck driver. While I do realize that of course, while I go out with my trainer, dragging a new mattress on his truck, along with my personal belongings - would be obviously ridiculous and out of the question. When I'm done training and get my own truck however, I'd prefer to have my own brand new mattress to sleep on every night, rather than just whatever old thing has been in there for who knows how long, used by however many drivers, who may have done God knows whatever they might have done on it.
So if you happen to know of any stores or sites or maybe even truck stops I suppose, that you can direct me towards. Thank you!
Where to find a sleeper berth mattress?
Discussion in 'Truck Stops' started by J.D.W., Jul 29, 2010.
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You should be able to put a twin mattress in the sleeper without issue. When hubby bought his truck thats the first thing we did, was bought a mattress and ditched the old cruddy one. If your going to be a company driver, I'd suggest asking the company about doing this first though.
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The mattress in my Cascadia is a Twin XL. Before you go buy your own though, I'd check with your company and see if they put a new mattress in the truck when they issue it to a new driver.
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Same here, my 379 pete takes a twin xl.
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Any good company will give you a new matress on request. They buy them by the hundreds.
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In atl werner has a guy that rebuilds them. I watched him rebuild mine. He replaced most the springs and put in all new foam and sewn on a new cover. Was interesting to watch. Or save up 400-500 and wait till you get to iowa 80 and buy one to fit your truck. every truck is different some smaller some bigger. best to wait and see. Your cheapest and best beat is to just buy a nice 2'' mattress topper memory foam or egg crate or a combo of the 2 that you can cut down to fit.
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As for the suggestions about checking with the company before I replace their mattress, I had already thought about that. If I have to replace it myself, I'll make sure to do so while I'm in town - at or by their home terminal, or at least at one of their terminals...maybe while I'm at orientation when I'm first assigned my truck. Then I can just hand them the old one and let them do what they will with it. I hadn't however thought to ask them to replace it for me. Don't know why, but the thought just didn't cross my mind that they might be willing to take care of it for me, upon request.
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In the past, we bought a truck mattress from the Freightliner dealer. Big mistake, very expensive, and cheap camp bunk style. We didn't know that a regular twin or twin xl would have worked.
Most recently, on advice from a friend, we bought one of those inflatable camping mattress. It has been beautiful. Great support. Much more comfortable than what we had before. Only $9 at WalMart. In fact, we splurged and got a spare, just in case he blows a hole in it.
It'll work for now,,, and maybe for a while.J.D.W. Thanks this.
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