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Episode 146: First storm of the season
Season 9 Episode 146
Every agency has gone through it. Perfect planning for winter, perfect preparation for that first storm, then mother nature sends a curve ball, all …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 145: The winter app that isn't an app
Season 9 Episode 145
On this episode were going to showcase the work of a couple of innovative maintenance professionals long time friend and listener, Phillip Anderle tu…
3 months, 1 week ago
Episode 144: Communicate, Coordinate, Cooperate - the I-80 Corridor Coalition
Season 9 Episode 144
Born out of a desire to improve winter operations across state lines the Interstate 80 Corridor Coalition has grown into the second longest corridor …
4 months ago
Episode 143: Winter readiness, get your house in order
Season 9 Episode 143
While it's important to have stockpiles full, equipment repaired and ready, and staff training and assignments set, it's important to have your home …
5 months ago
Bonus Episode 142: Pacific Northwest Snowfighters 2026
Season 9 Episode 142
The Pacific Northwest Snowfighters Association will be holding their biannual conference for winter maintenance professionals and practitioners May 2…
5 months, 1 week ago
Episode 141: Maintenance-If you think it's not important, just stop doing it
Season 9 Episode 141
From that moment the very first engineering project was completed the age of maintenance began. While the initial delivery of the public work carrie…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 140: Salt is about the speed
Season 8 Episode 140
In this episode we’re revisiting an earlier episode of Talkin Winter Ops that you may have missed. In this episode we visit with Dr. Scott Koefod, i…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 139: Don't give your spouse the leftovers
Season 8 Episode 139
Winter maintenance is more than work plans, budgets, disasters and recovery. Your family plays a huge role in your public works career and public se…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 138: Designed for snowplows
Season 8 Episode 138
Developing an infrastructure project is series of compromises and tradeoffs and so often maintenance and operations considerations end up on the cutt…
8 months, 1 week ago
Episode 137: Innovation, the little ones are the big ones
Season 8 Episode 137
A hundred and fifty years ago road departments leaned on the farmers next to the road to help maintain it and often times paid them to do so. As tim…
9 months, 3 weeks ago