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[QUOTE="weimedog, post: 730624, member: 20655"] Do you guys have winters like we have here? (Where are you?). We have had plow trucks out almost every day for the last 2 months, many time 24 hours a day. I have run the last four weekends in a row because of snow. How do you guys handle the plowing where you are? Our winter started in November and will likely last until April. Last year we had plows out until May in some area's. We also have to have crews "pushing back" the snow piles to make room for new snow. A typical day (today) was something like this: 13 plow trucks out at 3:00 back at 11:00 (hopefully). Manytimes those guys will run until 5:00 sometimes 6:00 because of the storm conditions. Night crew (5 guys) comes in at 5:00 and takes out enough trucks (hopefully) to cover State roads and major county roads until 3:00. In addition to our 250 miles, we plow another hundered or so miles of State roads. (very profitable) If we have good weather, Night Shift does things like change oil, plow blades, wing blades, etc. If we have great weather (no snow for a couple of days) we do our own truck maintenance, try to get things right for the next storm. We also do things like repair mail boxes :eek: , Fix guard rails, get rid of ice area's that mash the wings, etc. Mean while the guys in at 7:00 took out 3 loaders, 1 road grader, 2 gradall's, and one excavator to push back the snow banks that have grown too big for the plow trucks to shelf and push back. Another road grader, loader, and snowblower maintains the County Airport Runways and parking lot.(part of the highway budget by the way). Another loader manns the salt operations as we supply salt to several towns in addition to our trucks. Another couple of trucks are hauling salt to towns as we supply them and we have 4 of the 13 plow/sander trucks at town barns to keep them closer to their routes. Sometimes the guys in at 7:00 drive if required (sometimes the 3:00 call guys have issues). If there are any guys left over, they drive plow trucks (not plow/sander's as they are top heavy and they don't handle ditchs well...they tip over) to push back on those nastier routes. Tomorrow we will get another storm. Another 3:00 call is a certainty. Today was SUPPOSED to be a "push back day". When we have days where we don't have to call out for plowing everyone attacks the drifts and push back operations. My route will loose another 2-3 ft of road in some area's as my snow banks are already 3-6 ft high. One the State roads, the guard rails are already packed so unless the snow goes over, we can't clear the roads. A law suite has been filed in Syracuse against the NYS Dot because snow packed around the rails acted like a ramp and two seperate accidents ended in fatalities when folks went over. Got every one nervous. We slowly loose the battle against the drifts until late March when we start gaining ground again. Some counties are in real trouble up here in NYS because they can't keep the roads open and they run out of salt & room to push snow. Not because of budget...but they can't get the trucks through. (Check out those counties just east of the great lakes.) We get "lake effect snows" even when there is no storm front. Cold dry Canadian air just grabs moisture from the lakes and drops it here. We have two roads down to one lane yesterday for a while because of drifting. (My hill has a constant 20-30mph wind building huge drifts. Two loaders are working in front of my place all day today) The drifts I was working on yesterday were over 12-15 ft high. We took an excavator and moved. aprox 1/8 mile of it back aprox 30 ft. We will work at that pace until April...then all the heaved roads will need patching up, ditches cleaned from the spring washouts, trees removed, bent guardrails from plowing repaired, oil and stone, replacing clogged culverts. ...you know the routine. I think the structure of the Highway departments in this area are about the business snow removal. We already sub out much of the road construction operations to a large asphalt company. [/QUOTE]
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