Plowing in Roy, UT

Plowing a driveway is mostly a question of where the snow goes. There is only so much room, and a pile in the wrong spot sits there until spring, blocking your view of the street, burying a sprinkler head, or melting across the concrete and freezing again overnight. We run a truck-mounted BOSS V-plow, which can point forward to split a hard drift or fold into a scoop to carry a load across a lot. That matters here, where the work runs from a tight home driveway to a wide commercial parking lot, and each one needs different passes.

The other half of the job shows up after the city plow comes through. Street plows push a ridge of heavy, packed snow across the end of every driveway, often right after you cleared it. That berm is dense enough to stop a car, and it sets up hard if it sits through a cold night. We dig those out too, and you can read about it in Bryan's review on this page. Snow along the Wasatch Front also runs from light and dry to heavy and wet, and lake-effect bands off the Great Salt Lake can drop far more on one town than the next.

The time to sort this out is before the first storm. An estimate is the right moment to go over where snow can be piled, where the edges of the drive are, and anything under the snow that a blade could catch, like a raised slab, a curb or a sprinkler head. Stakes along the edges help, and they have to go in before the ground freezes. Settle how much snow should be down before the truck comes, since that is the first thing people wish they had asked. Send the address and what needs clearing, and get on the plow list.