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D.O.T Crews Preparing Equipment In Advance Of Winter

October 11, 2023 Steve Schwaller

(Ames)– State snow plow drivers are getting equipment ready for the upcoming season. The D-O-T’s Tina Greenfield says the biggest trucks can carry 900 gallons of brine and up to seven tons of salt…

“Capacity of the truck is one thing. What they choose to load in it and how much they put it out and how they put it out is dictated by the weather.”

She says crews are doing some experimenting too, inventing better chutes for the material to get from the truck to the pavement…

“The designs actually all worked really well, and it might just come down to which one is going to be the cheapest or easiest to maintain in the long run.”