No Rest For The Salt Trucks
By Tim Jimenez
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --- Another winter storm in the forecast means little rest for the plows and salt trucks throughout the region.
Crews have been out cleaning up the snow, ice and slush from yesterday, and they won't get too much of a break, with a forecasted four-plus inches of snow on the horizon.
Rick Elliott is a contractor here in Norristown. A busy winter is good for business, but he can't wait for spring when he won't have to navigate around certain drivers
"Trying to do your job and then you get somebody that's trying to squeeze up along side you and squirt around you and that's how accidents happen," he says. "Most of the accidents could probably be prevented."
Another issue, salt is not that easy to come by this time of year. He says suppliers don't have too much in stock because it's March and they don't want to have a huge surplus going into the warmer months.
"And here we are, fighting to get product," he says.
