UDOT crews keep busy despite seemingly slow winter so far
Jan 7, 2025, 6:00 AM

FILE: Some snow plow drivers in Utah are looking forward to a new snow season, and hopeful it will be as good as the 2023-2024 season. Others are hoping for a calmer year. (Scott G. Winterton/Deseret News)
(Scott G. Winterton/Deseret News)
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — The 2024-25 winter has been unusual compared to the previous two, to say the least.
For Utah Department of Transportation plow crews, that has meant a slight adjustment in workload.
Shawn Wright, a supervisor for the department’s Cottonwood main station, says even by noon today, there was little snow to move.
“It’s definitely been a strange winter,” Wright said. “It’s been really slow, but it’s started picking up. We’ve got, I don’t know 3 or 4 feet in the last week or so. It’s definitely getting better.”
That’s not to say snow plow operators at UDOT are left with nothing to do.
During seemingly slower winters like this one so far, workers take the opportunity to spend more time on things that get put on the back burner during heavy snow years.