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Who's praying for snow in Jackson?

Neighborhood snow plow drivers pine for a snowy winter

By: Darius Udrys

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Snow days are the kind of days snow plow drivers look forward to.
With snow in the forecast, snow plow drivers are gearing up.
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(The following is a transcription of the full broadcast story)

Snow storms can mean busy days for plow truck drivers.

I talked to two companies in our neighborhood that are hoping for a snowy winter.

"We have our salt bins ready, equipments filled up — can't be much more ready than we are today," says Reed Martindale of EPM Professional Grounds Services — one of our bigger private companies clearing snow from roads, sidewalks, and parking lots — in Jackson and surrounding communities.

Martindale says equipment was already in position for Wednesday night even before snow was starting to fall:

"Loaders like this, we have skid-loaders with 9-foot push boxes on them to 12-foot push boxes — loaders that are twice the size of this little puppy....certain locations we will use a salt truck with a plow on it, or a large piece of equipment like such, or our smaller ATVs."

Martindale says, while the last few winters have been mild: "We're expecting a cold one this year. Whether the precipitation comes with it, we can't say."

I caught up with Darrion Weller Wednesday afternoon as he, too, was getting ready for tonight's weather.

Like EPM, Weller's company — Street Sweepers Allpurpose Property Care — does groundskeeping during the warmer months.

But he, too, is ready for winter.

"I've got a salt spreader in the back of the truck," he says. "I've got a salt spreader in the back of the trailer…I'm going to be running two trucks this year. It'll be something new for us."