DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The calendar says October, but Lonelli Tomaine and the PennDOT District 4 team have been gearing up for the upcoming Winter season since July 1st.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been preparing our trucks; we have two trucks with plows at all our interstate stockpiles ready. We have been receiving materials such as salt and anti-skid over the past several months,” Tomaine, Assistant District Executive of PennDOT’s Maintenance Division, said.<\/p>\n
Tomaine says her team is transitioning from summer operations to winter operations going from the core maintenance activities like seal coating and crack sealing to getting PennDOT maintenance vehicles winter ready before the first flakes fall on the roads.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to get our trucks battle ready for the winter season which includes putting on the plows and the spreaders on our trucks,” Tomaine said.<\/p>\n
One of the challenges of preparation, Tomaine says, has been the rising cost of road salt. <\/p>\n
However, the maintenance staff has done their best to manage that price increase for all of District 4.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re also being very proactive about being as efficient as possible with our materials,” Tomaine said.<\/p>\n
While Winter doesn\u2019t officially start until two months from now, the colder temperatures are certainly giving a small preview of what Winter could look like in Northeast PA.<\/p>\n
Tomaine says that preparations like these are crucial to ensuring not only the roads are safe, but drivers are safe too.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they do have to travel during the winter season, they got to be prepared. Make sure you\u2019re planning your route ahead of time, make sure you have supplies in case you do get stuck on the interstate and just be as ready as possible in case you are stranded for several hours,” Tomaine said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The calendar says October, but Lonelli Tomaine and the PennDOT District 4 team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-310906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}