The New York State Department of Transportation is hiring plow drivers and salt truck drivers to maintain roads clear and visitors shifting. Demand for these drivers is excessive.
The DOT is urging anybody with a business driver’s license, or CDL, to use. For these who would not have a CDL, the state will make it easier to get one.
Shifts run 12 hours.
“Make sure our kids can get to school, we can get to the grocery store, businesses can get their goods to and from [the] market, customers can come in and out of shops; it’s really the name of the game,” stated Joe Leathersich, NYSDOT. “There’s weather in the forecast, as folks are aware, and this is prime time for our crews.”
The DOT is reminding all drivers to decelerate when touring close to plows and salt vans. The ladies and males driving them journey slowly to maintain others secure and successfully transfer the snow off of roads.