ARDOT crews to hold winter weather drill Tuesday
File image via ARDOT LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas snowplow crews will run their routes Tuesday, not to clear ice, but to practice. The Arkansas Department of Transportation will hold a winter weather preparedness drill in central Arkansas The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) will hold a winter weather preparedness drill in central Arkansas from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., allowing snowplow crews to train drivers, check equipment, and road-test snowplows while communicating with ARDOT’s Emergency Operations Center. All members of the department’�s Winter Weather Strike Team, made up of field personnel from ARDot’’S statewide maintenance crews, will participate. The drill allows crews to respond to a simulated winter weather event by hooking up all snowplowing and salt spreaders and familiarizing their assigned routes before there is snow and ice on the ground. The department has more than 600 snowplowed at county maintenance headquarters and district offices statewide and stores about 80,000 tons of salt at locations statewide.
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LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas snowplow crews will run their routes Tuesday, not to clear ice, but to practice.
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