[Scan-DC] Snowplows, where are they?

[John Wilson]

*VDOT loves to contract out.  Regarding the snow, most of what you see 
are area businesses usually established construction companies, who 
change most of their trucks to a install a blade configuration for 
pushing snow.  These contracts usually have a yearly contract with the 
state for snow removal.  Most of these truck drivers DO NOT KNOW HOW TO 
REMOVE WITHOUT GOUGING THE ASPHALT.  A few usually guess wrong because 
their push blade bounces and on the down stroke sometimes digs into the 
asphalt and gouges a one or two foot wide and or one or two inch depth.

   I live in Prince George Co., VA and here the vehicle traffic has to 
wait until next spring or summer to get the VDOT contractor to patch 
whatever so it can be scalped or gouged for the same grief somewhere on 
the asphalt at the first snow.

John
W4UVV
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Kenneth Fowler wrote:
> Never hear anything on vdot's vhf low band anymore.
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> Subject: [Scan-DC] Snowplows, where are they?
>
> It's been awhile since we had a good snow.  And I miss Mike Agner's old
> snowplow freq list.
>
> In any case, has anybody figured out what freqs the snowplows use these
> days in and around the D.C. Beltway?
>
> I ran Pro96Com on STARS's Arlington site for much of the day.  The only
> hits were the two main VSP TGs and two alternates, the VDOT Safety Service
> Patrol and just a hit or so on the TOC talkgroup.
>
> On the Maryland side, I don't get much reception at all for FiRST yet
> inside the Beltway... and I assume the 47 MHz channels are gone, right?
>
> In D.C., I have not heard much from DPW in years other than a few oddball
> talkgroups on the trunked system that do not get much use.
>
> I didn't bother checking for the county plows but I should try that later.
>
> Are these plows all using PoC (PTT over cellular) or another technology?
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
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