L'Anse MDOT Workers Come Up With Another Way To Help Winter Road Maintenance

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Workers at the Michigan Department of Transportation’s L’Anse Maintenance Facility have come up with another solution to a winter road maintenance problem.

That’s MDOT Transportation Maintenance Specialist John Dault

One goal during winter maintenance is to keep a majority of de-icing material on the road near where drivers’ wheels will make contact.

Driving at a low speed helps prevent material from being wasted by bouncing off the road when it’s dropped from the rear of a salt truck.

The L’Anse facility’s solution allows that speed to increase — and bounce and scatter to decrease — by instead routing de-icing material under the rear wheel of the vehicle.

The solution will primarily help on expressways, but there is already a prototype working on the roads in Baraga County.