The City of Bend’s new online snow plow and sand truck tracking system was up and running Thursday as the first significant snow of the season hit the city.
The Winter Operations map is color coded to show where transportation crews have serviced roads in different time frames.
- Last 30-60 minutes
- Last 1-2 hours
- Last 2-4 hours
- Last 4+ hours
Zooming in allows the user to also see arrows to know which direction the plows and gravel trucks were going.
“We have about 18 pieces of equipment that function each shift. But that allows us for our staff of 32. But we have in our department, out of that, we have about ten sanders, which are doing most of the work with this kind of snow today,” City of Bend Street Division Manager Chuck Swann said Thursday.
Plow don’t typically get utilized unless snow is more than two inches deep, the city said.