It's fairly predictable what they use here. I don't recall seeing sand on the interstate or county highways. If they do use it, they must use very little. Most of the time after the state and county plow trucks are done the roads appear to be bare pavement. It looks like they use 100% salt. But things change dramatically once you hit the town road. You're in a whole new world then. There's usually a layer of sand on top of packed down snow or ice. They must use some salt but it has to be very little. It's about six miles to my house from where the town road starts. Many times after snow the town plow truck hasn't even been through there yet. More than once I've used 4WD for the trek. Once late Spring hits and no more possibility of snow the town uses a street sweeper to clear the sand from the road in our hamlet. I don't know how far from the hamlet they use the sweet sweeper but I know they don't use it on the miles of roads once you leave the hamlet. I guess that over time the rain clears the sand or at least most of it. In early Spring on a nice day some bikers will jump the gun and come out to enjoy the scenery on the back roads. What they don't realize is that there is still sand on some of these roads or realize what sand can do to traction when rounding a corner. Been more than one bike spill as a result of it.
