On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:10:13 GMT, wrote:

Now (in my area at least) it seems to be a M-F 8-4 operation. Certainly
very little done on weekends.

24/7 operation available here. Mind you they have to if it starts to
drift in any sort of meaningful manner otherwise it'll build up so
the ploughs can't get through, even with the pointy plough rather
than the shove to the side type.

When it's drifting badly they just keep driving around and around
trying to keep some semblance of a route open. They'll come past us
about every hour but by the time they are due to pass again you'd
hardly be able to tell they had been through just an hour before as
the previous track would be filled back in. We are talking 2' or more
depths as well.

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Cheers
Dave.