AMES, Iowa – It takes a fleet of around 900 snow plow trucks for the Iowa Department of Transportation to keep the roads and highways clear once the snow starts to fly. Maintaining that fleet is ...

Council members fielding those complaints blame the state of the fleet, with plow trucks breaking down in record numbers at critical junctures. About half of the city's snow plows went down for ...

The snow season has arrived and the county road commission is ready. This winter season that means purchasing 34 new trucks with more safety features to plow and salt the roads. Each truck costs an ...

Driving a snowplow isn't for everyone. It means long hours driving a tank-like truck, and always in weather that would keep many folks at home. We take a ride with a young woman who loves her job.

Every winter, a plow comes by and pushes snow back into Jeremy Bates’ driveway. Perhaps fair, given how he has often been on the opposite side. “It was probably 17 years ago, there was a gentleman who ...