Inside the race to get CTDOT's plows ready for snow

Inside the race to get CTDOT's plows ready for snow

A large snowstorm isn’t in Connecticut’s close future, but it’s all a team of mechanics at the Connecticut Department of Transportation has been preparing for since October. The state’s winter fleet contains roughly 640 trucks and 100 loaders. More than 80 mechanics spend weeks doing preventative maintenance on the vehicles to make sure they’re safe to drive and operate whenever those first flakes fall. Mechanic Brandon Bushey at the Rocky Hill …