The city here is actually pretty good. Most streets are bare after a storm. The outlying areas are private contractors. The guy that does where I live is on the ball. They don't use salt like city or DOT, but they are not cheap with the sand. Now DOT, The main highways are good for the most part, but the side roads........ They rented me on our grader one winter as they had 2 graders down. After 4 storms, one of the supers come to me and asked if I was using my moldboard plowing. Yes? He told me you have to stop, the road is too slippery after, and it takes too much sand. I'm thinking, why do you want a grader, a truck would be cheaper. People I knew that lived along my route, said it was only slippery for a while, and it was the first winter in years that the road was bare, and not 2 wheel ruts in the snow. I think it's a budget thing. I know they are pretty tight with the overtime, and most of the time, the sand is only on turns and at stop signs. The districts are laid out with election boundaries. There is a DOT garage in my area. 20 Min away there is another one. This is the one that rented me. The boundary line runs around the outside of the city. The local district, plows a section of highway that runs through the city, to the city limits. Another district, about 45 min away comes up to their boundary at the city limits. He has to drive through the city, on a section of road plowed by the local district to the other end of the city, plows about 20 kilometers, until he meets the district that hired me, and then turns back. You would think that the local district, or the sunny corner district could do that piece of road, or even split the difference and meet in the middle