Safety First: VDOT Prepares for Winter
The Virginia Department of Transportation is planning ahead to ensure that all state-maintained roadways remain safe during winter weather and that people, services and goods can get from one corner of the commonwealth to the other. Details >
- Virginia Department of Emergency Management's snow information page
- Pretreating for snow and ice
- Prepare your car for winter driving
- VDOT's anti-icing technology
- Snowfighters: An emergency response training skills competition
- How VDOT clears snow
- Parking in the snow
- All VDOT winter weather videos
PDFs 
- Available equipment (166 KB)
- Winter weather driving tips (160 KB)
- Road anti-icing, pre-treatment and de-icing (172 KB)
- Fact sheet (159 KB)
- Snow removal and snow driving (199 KB)
- VDOT equipment and supplies (169 KB)
Other Video
- Parking in snow (:30)
- Clearing roads in 48 hours (:30)
- Interstates and primary roads first (:30)
- Keeping Virginia moving (1:00)
(WMVs. Download the free player here.)
Video transcripts (PDF, 10 KB)
Audio
VDOT's Jeffrey Caldwell explains:
- How the agency decides which
roads to open first (:13) - Preparation (:20)
- Safety (:16)
(MP3s)
Photos:
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VDOT workers prepare snow plow.
Interstate and major primary
routes are the first ones cleared.
Roy Richards operates a plow. The agency uses both employees and contract workers to clear roads
as soon as possible after a storm.
The goal is to to make all roads
passable within 48 hours.
In additon to plows, the agency has
snowblowers to move large drifts.
Crews work around the clock
to clear snowcovered roads.
Safety is our top concern. Please
be careful when driving in the snow.
