Here are a few of the trucks the County uses year round.

Dump Truck Leaf Truck

MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DIVISION OF HIGHWAY SERVICES Celebrate Touch a truck, see a Brine Truck demonstration of these trucks Public Works Week and more at the Grader Paving With The MCDOT Day and Truck Show! Plow Truck Montgomery County Grader Plowing Department of Montgomery County Department of Transportation Day and Truck Show: Transportation

Date: May 11, 2019 Time: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM Location: 17000 Crabbs Branch Way, Gaithersburg, MD 20855

Snow Blower Front End Loader For more information about MCDOT Truck Day Events please email: Bucket Truck Sweeper Truck [email protected] What are some of the things the Department of Transportation does? The Transportation Department provides maintenance of the roadway including roadway resurfacing, shoulder repair, curb, gutter and sidewalk repair and replacement, and County right-of-way care to name a few. The County also performs the following services and many more. Plow Truck Front End Loader Winter Storm Operations A snowplow is a blade attached to a vehicle A loader (bucket loader, front loader, front When it snows, 200 employees with 175 used for pushing snow and ice off of end loader, payloader, scoop, shovel, skip plows spring into action. When snow outdoor surfaces, typically roadways and loader, or wheel loader) is a heavy begins, salt crews spread salt on all main parking lots. Although “snowplow” is a term equipment machine used in construction County roads and emergency routes. When often used to refer to vehicles with such and sidewalk maintenance to move aside snow accumulates to three inches, plowing devises mounted to them, more accurately or load materials such as asphalt, and salting crews continue to clear all main they are known as winter service vehicles. demolition debris, dirt, snow, feed, gravel, County roads and emergency routes. Once logs, raw minerals, recycled material, rock, the snow stops, crews begin plowing sand, woodchips, etc. into a pile or onto neighborhood streets. Crews complete The first snowplows another type of machinery. plow routes and spread salt on hills, at were wedge shaped, intersections and on roads around schools pulled by a horse and A loader is a type of tractor, usually to make the roads safe for travel. made of wood. wheeled, sometimes on tracks, that has a Sometimes, snow causes school to start front mounted square wide bucket late or cancel. With the introduction of the automobile, connected to the end of two booms (arms) inventors brainstormed ways to improve to scoop up loose material from the ground, Street Sweeping existing snowplows. The first snow plow such as dirt, sand or gravel, and move it The County’s Sweeping Program cleans ever built specifically for use with motor from one place to another without pushing over 4000 curb miles of streets and collects equipment was in 1913. the material across the ground. A loader is over 750 tons of debris. This program is commonly used to move a stockpiled designed to keep streets clean and ▪ A snowplow works by using a blade to material, such as salt, from ground level environmentally friendly. push snow to the side or straight ahead, and deposit it into an awaiting dump truck clearing it from a surface. Tree Services or into an open trench excavation. Tree trimming, tree removal, insect and tree ▪ When snowfalls accumulate above a disease control, tree planting, and root certain height, snowplow operators may cutting are just a few of the activities be seen clearing “Snow Emergency handled by the Tree Maintenance Section Routes” to allow emergency vehicles, of the Division of Highway Services. We such as fire trucks and ambulances, to even remove beehives ☺. safely arrive at their destination.