Road salt anyone

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pittsburghracer

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I pass this almost daily on my 2.2 mile walk. During my walk today two big dump trucks dumped their loads up on top and one 28 wheeler dumped his load one the bottom pad. This goes on all summer prepping for the Fall when it starts going out. You can see one truck up top dropping his load in the one picture.
 
Yuck, I saw those salt piles when I went to Columbus Ohio. Makes me thankful we use red lava rock on the roads here in Oregon.
 
From about 10 years ago... Back when I worked for a living...

My company car, known as Vlad the Impala.

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I thought we had it bad here in Manitoba, but watching south main auto on youtube, looks like a guy is lucky to get 10 years out of a car in New York.
 
I have been looking into getting my 2006 dodge truck coated with “fluid film” locally. It’s a mixture of used oil and who knows what.
 
Heres a pic of the amount of road salt used in our city, St John's ,Newfoundland, Canada. Population of 120,000.

Used from Middle of October to first week of April.

Your car would probably rust out just driving by this! LOL !!


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The Spokane WA area as well as here locally in the N end of Idaho they have gone to a liquid spray. I cannot imagine that it is "better" for vehicles or the environment. The joke in Idaho is that they don't SAND the roads....they ROCK the roads. The 04 GMC got a "ping" in the dead center lower vertically of the windshield this winter. I was going to have it "treated" by one of the local windshield "guru's" and one or two days later it grew out into a "windshield wide" grin. It's still wet, dismal, and "sandy" around here from winter, YES!! STILL!!. When it finally gets cleaned up some I'll consider a new windshield, oh, JOY!!
 
My country township uses ash which works pretty good for traction. In the spring they run the street sweeper to clean the roads.
 
What happens to the pile when it rains?
 
This 1970 Cuda was originally a PA car. drove to WV and parked in 1976,
I parted it a couple years ago, rotted the the bone.
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My uncle bought a new 1970 Duster in 1970, 4 years later he drove it to the junkyard, they gave him $200 for it, the rear springs went thru the trunk, it had 40,000 miles on it.

Rusted cars are a real thing on the east coast.
 
Where i work in south st Paul MN we unload barges of salt and fertilizer and load trucks all winter for road salt. We store nearly a million ton of salt a year and mostly all of.it ships out by spring to Wisconsin Minnesota and iowa... yeah its hard on the work beater. Zero rocker panels left on the work beater and it only took 2 years they are gone front to back.
 
I wish they would stop using salt here. It not only eats your sheet metal but also pollutes the lake by changing the salinity of fresh water. It's a lose lose situation!
 
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