In a time when good help is hard to find, what are you doing to retain the employees you have?
The driver shortage is affecting public agencies' snowplowing efforts. The City of Hartford, Vermont, and the Montana Department of Transportation are combating this by hiring a number of temporary drivers.
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Oregon, Missouri, and Colorado are each looking to hire more than 100 people as snowplow operators.
A report by outlet VTDigger states a fear is beginning to materialize among snowplow crews statewide: if a whole crew were to be out sick with COVID-19 when a snowstorm hit, who would clear the roads?
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