Avoiding Frutstrations When Clearing

Your Driveway

     It’s frustrating when you finish clearing your driveway only to have one of our plows come by and fill it back in.

     There is an easy way to prevent that inconvenience from happening. When clearing your driveway, snow at the end of the drive should be shoveled in the direction of traffic.

     "If you shovel your drive and put it to the left of your entrance when our plows come through to clear the roadway, it will be pushed back into your drive,” Operations Engineer Mike Helpingstine says.

      MoDOT asks people to make an open area along the shoulder at the entrance to the drive and place the snow on the shoulder in the direction of traffic so plow blades will push a limited amount into driveway entrances.