| Winter will be here soon enough indeed. Once, Winter | | | | may be associated with it. Magnesium Chloride 5 |
| is in full swing there are serious issues for school | | | | degrees to negative twenty-Does not hurt concrete, |
| buses and school bus safety. The key is preventative | | | | 40% less chloride into environment, comes in either |
| maintenance. Many buses blow exhaust underneath | | | | solid or liquid, liquid preferred, Potassium Chloride- 25 |
| either one or both back tires to keep warm and melt | | | | degrees to 12 degrees-Similar to urea. Good deicer |
| ice and snow after they stop to get traction. School | | | | and fertilizer. Smells terrible later. Sand-good traction; |
| Buses Must Be Prepared For Winter Driving otherwise | | | | but major mess later. Environmentally okay, after all it |
| buses get stuck in route or accidents can occur. Many | | | | is only sand, sand blasts trucks and screws up paint. |
| times there is no sense in using buses on some days | | | | Sodium Chloride-15 to negative six degrees-deices, |
| meaning if no one can get there, why have school that | | | | often mixed with sand and salt applications. They call it |
| day at all; All the children Left Behind? | | | | road salt or you have heard the term rock salt. Urea is |
| School districts are taking the threat of snow and ice | | | | used in -25 degrees to 11 degrees- Looks like small |
| seriously during winter, preparing the buses for winter | | | | white pellets, used usually as a mixture to save costs |
| driving conditions in Oregon. One of the most important | | | | with other de-icers. Note the freezing temperature is |
| things you can do of course is to wash these buses | | | | often a factor of altitude and wind chill. What is the |
| and to do it correctly. Many times a good pressure | | | | trucking Industry doing about this problem? |
| washing company can assist in routine maintenance | | | | Manufacturers such as freightliner is using robots to |
| cleaning of frames to make sure the road salt and | | | | put on special adhesive to prevent corrosion between |
| such get off the buses which can cause excessive | | | | parts. More stainless steels are being used and other |
| wear to things like brakes. Magnesium Chloride is a | | | | alloys with nickel content. New primers and coatings |
| huge issue on winter roads: This years Winter will cost | | | | are being used available from PPG as well as new |
| government agencies 2 Billion in plowing and spreading | | | | glass and ceramic coatings such as the NASA |
| salt and chemicals on roads for safety. | | | | formula used and sold by Adsil. |
| It will cost the environmental clean-up and corrosion | | | | Resins and sealers are used by some to seal |
| damage to the trucking Industry 5 million. Some of that | | | | components and body parts. Anti-static discharge |
| will be spent in Truck detailing centers in places like | | | | points are put in strategic parts on trucks. PeterBuilts all |
| Detroit, Chicago, Denver, Green Bay, Cleveland, New | | | | come with underbody splash shields now. Mack has |
| York and Boston. What do they put on the roads? | | | | galvanized cabs and undercoating on fuel tanks. |
| Under 25 degrees Fahrenheit, they use Calcium | | | | Transport Topics in another related article in 2004 |
| Chloride, it generates heat when it hits moisture and | | | | quoted fleet managers as saying increased washing |
| melts ice and snow, giving off a little advection fog. | | | | frequency was by for the best preventative |
| Calcium Magnesium Acetate 20 degrees-Liquid deicer, | | | | maintenance and was the main advise of fleet owners |
| limestone and acetic, best for bridges and other areas | | | | and managers to prevent corrosion. Many times part |
| to reduce corrosion to prevent loss of structural | | | | of the strategy of a deicer application is to allow the |
| integrity. | | | | trucks to spread it around and mix it correctly. So the |
| Calcium Magnesium Propionate-Powder form made | | | | application means just dumping it on the ground and |
| from farm products, cheap and only $300 per ton. Still | | | | letting the trucks mix it. And the buses and trucks are |
| undergoing tests due to environmental problems, which | | | | not alone in this problem. Think on it. |