Yeah ... i totally hear you. You have to size the equipment to the job.
We used to do pretty well with what we had. The wing plow on the side of the truck is the big thing. What you do is plow and wing back at the same time. As the snow banks on the side start to gain height you can raise the wing plow and " shelf " the bank to whatever height you want up to about six feet.
Those trucks do have their limitations though .....
My eyesight isn't what it used to be when i was younger. I did what i thought was the right thing and retired from running the big trucks awhile back. Even turned in my CDL last October.
My last season on was two or three years back ? That was a real toughie! It was that winter where it came off cold and stayed cold. The snow that fell early on in November didn't melt so the snow banks just kept getting higher and higher as the winter wore on. By late February we were running out of places to put it all. It got to a point where there were some spots on my route that i had to do with the backhoe. ~ Crazy ....Crazy ~
It's like that in the mountains of N.H. and places like Buffalo ALL the time. You wonder how they cope with it all but they do.
Gotta hand it to those guys !
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