Submitted by snuffy_tentpeg t3_zxdx3y in Pennsylvania
Like the title says, piles of road salt are beginning to appear where road maintenance crews idle on the side of the road. Some of these piles are significant.
Does your township or municipality collect this excess salt for re-use?
Do you think it unethical to shovel some into a pail for personal use?
Not sure what they used before, but in my younger days when I used to buy cars that were at least a decade old or older, I don't remember the rust ever being as bad as it is on cars now.
My last new car had a corrosion warranty and the manual specifically stated not to use any underbody coatings (never had it on my used cars), and within two years the heat shields all corroded out around their mounts and the license plate bracket rusted and snapped. After another year, an external pump corroded to the point it wouldn't hold pressure. Had the same pump replaced twice and those both rusted out after 3 years. Wheels corroded, sub-floor panels all rusted, lower door rusted.. all within a decade of daily driving and regular underbody car washes.
Ya my 2011 is pretty roached… hard to say if it’s the brine or the quality of our vehicles these days.
I just purchased a brand new car a year ago and during winter months I try to wash it once a week because the salt builds up so fast. I wonder if this is even gonna help though considering what you just said. So maybe all my troubles are for nothing.
It's a Honda after all, so the body will probably go before the engine anyway. That's what usually happens with Hondas.
Don’t think it unethical at all. It’s been my experience from the many I’ve seen is they just sit there. So now when I see one I scoop it into a 5gal bucket and use it here at home on the corners so people don’t have to climb over piles or risk falling on ice while trying to cross.
This is a good way of going about it. Our tax dollars paid for that salt….why not at least try to use it
The internationals used by Penn DOT can only idle for so long then the truck itself shuts off after several minutes just a fun tidbit.
you can get around it by using the cruise control
It depends my understanding is PennDot actually uses a heavy brine solution now opposed to regular rock salt. What you borough does probably varies but I’m pretty salt dispensers can be turned on and off from the cab as well as the amount of salt being put down adjusted. You would think the drivers would turn it off if they are going to be idling for more than just a minute. It’s wasteful but rock salt is pretty cheap stuff.
This isn't true. They use both according to pennant
Mixed with something that eats metal
This isn't true. They use both according to penndot
Penndot uses salt where you live?
Our roads here in the northern tier looked like they hadn’t been touched at all on Christmas Day, but it hadn’t snowed since Friday.
Yes regular rock salt in areas of Chester and Montgomery counties.
Lucky you. All we get is sand.
I'd rather get sand in all honesty.. I'm in the SE corner of berks.. Holy hell. It looks like snow on the road. Still. So much damn rock salt that you legitimately cannot see any lines on the road, on some/most roads
We can’t see the lines on the road either, because they were covered in 6 inches of snow that got compacted down to a sheet of ice and maybe given a sprinkle of sand at some point.
Oooh where? Cause I'll go take a scoop
The treasure you seek lies on the shoulder of the road, under the bridge that carries Evergreen Road over 422 East at the Sanatoga exit.
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You are a true friend
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And if banks just left piles of money everywhere, you'd get your fuckin' scoop too, pal.
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Why are you so purposefully obtuse?
Nobody is talking about breaking into PennDOT to steal shit, so comparing it to breaking into a bank is disingenuous on its face.
Sounds like you're upset Scranton is two and a half hours from the free salt in Chester County.
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You found me out. I was gonna fill my Tacoma with stolen road salt and sell it at a massive profit in Buffalo.
Just as our ancestors foretold centuries ago
I don't think OP meant legit piles, as in multiple feet tall.
They're referring to how some salt piles up under the salt dispenser when they idle the trucks in a parking spot. Think maybe six inches high at most.
Take 2 they are small scoops!👍🏻😎
Live in Nortthern PA and roads were clear all the way to 80, yesterday.
Well yeah…..it hasn’t snowed here since late Christmas Day and it was like 35 degrees. I would sure as shit hope the roads were clear.
Usually the salt piles occur while they are trying to make sure the spreader is on/working before they drive off.
I live on a mountain near a park where they stage the truck before salting.
I often drive my own plow truck up there w/ a shovel in attempt to collect the “free” salt and put it in my salt spreader for my driveway.
I don’t think anyone would care if you do the same, as the employees will never be able to shovel it back into their giant dump trucks.
Using it is far better than letting it go to waste or continue to be an obstruction.
Townships or municipalities don’t have the manpower to recover lost salt. I would, and have shoveled some into a bucket for personal use. They used to leave a giant pile of it by my mailbox every year I don’t know why. Maybe it’s where they started the salting machine on the truck.
Sounds like free salt to me! Pick some up, why pay for it. Win win!
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Usually run out with my shaker and scoop some for dinner 😋
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Critical thinking is hard apparently
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Gas taxes are high because Former Governor Corbett enacted a law that they go up every year after he's out of office.
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Matt-33-205 t1_j1zq9rx wrote
I really really wish they would use non corrosive anti-skid. The salt they use is the devil, destroys vehicles and bridges. Take all of it.