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Chapter Six - Institutional and Workforce Issues
Pages 23-24

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From page 23...
... Operators, supervisors, and managers can then perform simulations for a range of maintenance activity alternatives and view the resulting consequences of their selections. Organizations use a variety of maintenance skill levels for snow removal from entry level to master level, with the master level more prevalent on rotary plows, snowblowing, and operation of V plows.
From page 24...
... Other improvement areas were considered good ideas by the agencies, but were not, on average, judged essential. These include the following: • Better snowplow cabin display and control arrangements; 24 • Improvements to the driver's vision contrast sensitivity; • Better in-cab systems to provide location, near-real-time operation data, communications with a base station, and proximity radar; • Lane departure integrated into the warning system; and • Magnetic edge line and tactual seat response.


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