Talkin Winter Ops

10/22/2025

Winters coming…

10/18/2024

https://aashtojournal.transportation.org/wvdot-to-update-road-weather-information-system/

The West Virginia Department of Transportation recently awarded a $4.7 million contract to Specialty Groups Inc. to upgrade and install Road Weather Information System or RWIS stations along state roadways. [Above photo by WVDOT] Those stations collect data on weather and road conditions and transmi...

09/26/2024

Snow pole time!

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09/18/2024

Operator skill on display.
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06/11/2024

Roadeos are an excellent way to showcase the amazing skills of winter maintenance professionals.

05/13/2024

Twenty years ago a group of really smart folks got together with the National Academy of Science and worked on what surface road weather might look like in the future and documented their thughts in a report called "Where The Weather Meets The Road". It's 2024 and the future they pondered is here now. Listen in as out guests, Paul Pisano and Dr. Gina Eosce discuss this report and what they think the future of road weather management might look like.

Twenty years ago in 2004 “Where The Weather Meets The Road” was published by the National Academy of Science and it proposed a research roadmap over the next 20-years to advance road weather services.  Now in 2024 the future described in Wher...

03/22/2024

Colorado DOT snowplow driver helps police. You never know what the day will bring.

Keeping the roads safe: it's been Joe Duarte's mission every day he's worked for CDOT out of the Empire substation, clearing snow and debris and making sure the mountain passes are clear for travelers.

03/05/2024

Tough going over the Sierra Nevada even after the storm.

02/28/2024

Folks running into snowplows and other slow moving operations like sweepers is a common problem particularly during winter storms and this era of distracted drivers. Minnesota DOT has developed an ITS solution to let snowplows or other slow moving equipment communicate their presence to dynamic message signs warning motorists there is a maintenance vehicle operating in front of them.

Check out this episode with Jed Falgren and listen in as he talks about the system they've deployed there.

Whenever you mix snowplows, winter storms, and motorists on the same stretch of pavement everyone needs to be at the top of their game in vehicles equipped for conditions.  Most of the time folks get where there headed and the roads get clear...