From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
news:oprz8oemms8gsp74{at}news.barkto.com...
> > Driving on German Autobahns in the early 1980s very late at night you
> > would
> > sometimes come up behind the snowploughs.  They were HUGE.  The one in
> > the
> > outer lane ran first, throwing snow into the centre lane.  The centre
> > lane
> > plough would pick that up, plus its own snow, and throw it into the
inner
> > lane.  The plough there would throw everything onto the hard shoulder.
> >
> > The trick was to close with the outer lane plough and pick a spot where
> > there didn't seem tobe so much snow - then dart across into the centre
> > lane
> > and overtake the outer lane plough on the wrong side.
> >
> > Relatively easy with AWD, not to bad with FWD but definitely iffy with
> > RWD.
> >
>
> I saw them staggered like that in Moscow and Leningrad, operating
> like one huge plow spanning these wide streets.

It's standard practice here, too, though usually only two of them at a time
(we have very few roads with more than two lanes).


Antti Kurenniemi

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