PLOW FLEETS PRACTICE STREET SCIENCEKEEPING THE REGION'S ROADS CLEAR OF ICE AND SNOW DEMANDS A KEEN SENSE OF THE ELEMENTS AND A DAUNTLESS DETAIL OF DRIVERS.(MAIN)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | January 4, 1998 | Copyright

Byline: PAUL ZIELBAUER Staff writer

At 7 a.m., as darkness gave way to morning light -- barely -- a battalion of 25-ton Ford dump trucks rigged with plow blades rumbled back to their cavernous garage in North Albany to exchange their worn-out drivers for fresh ones.

The humans behind the wheels had just completed 12-hour assaults on the 5 inches of snow dumped on Albany Tuesday and Wednesday. Minutes before, the airwaves were thick with exhaustion-induced chatter and more, shall we say, unofficial genres of banter.

``Towards the end of the shift, ...

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