{"id":148019,"date":"2021-11-05T23:17:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T04:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=148019"},"modified":"2021-11-08T04:51:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T09:51:35","slug":"local-odot-snow-equipment-ready-to-roll-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/11\/05\/local-odot-snow-equipment-ready-to-roll-this-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Local ODOT snow equipment ready to roll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like it or not, winter will be here soon enough and the Van Wert County Ohio Department of Transportation garage is ready for all it brings, including snow and ice and slippery roads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week, ODOT conducted its annual equipment inspections around District 1, which includes Allen, Defiance, Hancock, Hardin, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert and Wyandot counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Van-Wert-ODOT-garage-11-5-2021-e1636365028527.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148018\"\/><figcaption>This dump truck and plow is just one of 13 that was inspected at the Van Wert County ODOT garage this week. The trucks and all other equipment will be ready to roll when snow hits the county this winter.<em> Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe district mechanics inspect the trucks \u2013 they crawl under the trucks, look under, over and through them,\u201d Transportation Administrator Ron Leffel said. \u201cThey check everything out and make sure they\u2019re mechanically okay, that the plows swing, lift and turn. If they don\u2019t, we get them fixed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the trucks carry two plows, a front and a belly, while some also have a wing plow to help clear multi-lane routes, shoulders and ramps. All ODOT trucks locally and throughout the state are equipped with GPS units to aid in storm management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Van Wert County garage, the fleet of equipment includes 13 dump trucks, a loader, a backhoe, a semi-truck used to apply brine. The garage currently has 3,638 tons of road salt on hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe like to pre-treat before a storm and we\u2019re using brine and \u2018beat heat\u2019 here also,\u201d Leffel explained. \u201cWe\u2019re using that more after a storm (beat heat) to get things cleaned up a little faster. We also have brine on our trucks and we spray it on our salt before we hit the road and that helps it stick to the road and activates it quicker so it starts melting quicker.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s usually not a matter of if, but when snow will fly, and Leffel said when it happens, the Van Wert garage will be ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d like to have 13 drivers but most of the time will have 10-12,\u201d Leffel said. \u201cWe also rely on winter seasonal help and we have four to five winter seasonals coming. We rely on them so we can go 10-11 all night long and all day long.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor Like it or not, winter will be here soon enough and the Van Wert County Ohio Department of Transportation garage is ready for all it brings, including snow and ice and slippery roads. Earlier this week, ODOT conducted its annual equipment inspections around District 1, which includes Allen, Defiance, Hancock, Hardin, Paulding, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 13:42:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}