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Helpful Advice For Plowing With Your Truck/SUV

For Your Driveway/Laneway:

To ensure easy maintenance of laneways throughout the winter season, plow your laneways as wide as possible during the first snowfall.

Here’s how:

  • Set the plow on an angle and proceed down the lane close to the edge where the snow will be piled. Be careful to stay clear of ditches, trees, buildings and any other obstacles that may run parallel with the laneway.
  • At the end of the laneway, turn the vehicle around and without changing the angle of the plow, return on the other side of the laneway to accumulate a second pile of snow. Repeat this action to push the snow pile back further.

For Your Small Business Parking Lot:

To ensure easy maintenance of your small business parking lot, plow parking areas as widely as possible and as deep as possible during the first snowfall.

Here’s how:

  • Generally, work from the center to one side and then from the center again to the other side. Do this by setting the plow on an angle and proceed down the center of the parking lot until you reach the far edge.
  • Lift the plow and back up to the position that you started from. Now, plow a parallel and slighting overlapping path. After you have plowed half the parking lot, exit the vehicle, adjust the plow to the opposite angle and starting from the center again, work progressively in a lateral direction, towards the outer edge of the parking lot.
  • When approaching the end of the lot, reduce your speed and stop before the blade slams the snow pile. Your plow should not be used to stack the snow.