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Seems like in the past few years when businesses contract to get plowing and salting, these guys are going apeshit laying down the salt. Not like a coating to keep the ice at bay but they are putting down like an inch thick everywhere it seems.

I'm in an oil & gas projects group and we have a saying when contractor's exhibit unexpected behavior, "Follow the money"

The plow company is paying by lb or ton for salt so the logical thing is they'd skimp on it, but more than likely their contact with the business is incentivizing laying it down thick. It could be the unit rate for salt is a profit center in the contract, the business buys the salt and it's free to contractor, their insurance carrier is driving them to lay it on thick to avoid accidents, etc.

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Originally posted by 1860ARMY:
Same around here, I can't believe how much they use and wonder how much is left to mine. Every road department around has a giant bld full of it... Are we ever going to fun out?

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The Cargill mine 1,800’ under Lake Erie produces 12,000 tons a day and is expected to last 80 years.

Part of it is to help mitigate any liability should someone fall or otherwise sue because a surface wasn’t adequately treated.

Caught behind those trucks spraying the road with solution prepping the road… 3 times on the way home. Two days after our dreaded 2” of snow, try to get a car wash, line backed out to the road.