Where the heck do you live? There is 1,200 miles of roads in the county I live/work in. Unless your road only gets scraped once a year, or they are solid clay, they'd be shot around here. In the early spring we scrape them and put chloride on them. In the 2.5 months between that time and the next application of chloride, they are already toast, all chattered up, especially if there has been no rain for the chloride to pull moisture from. So, we rescrape and reapply in the middle of summer, and by the time when the fall rains come when they lock down, they are getting to be pretty bad by then. I also have 80 miles of roads to maintain in my territory alone, 50 of which are gravel. Unless you do a terrible job scraping them, it can take 2 hours to get a road back in shape after being beat up all summer, and get the loose stone mixed back in where it won't cause chatters. After you get through all the gravel in the territory, which usually takes at least 2 weeks, you start over again, until they free up. Lightly traveled roads you may only have to scrape twice. The heavy traveled roads you might have to do twice a week. Other wise, you have the people that moved from the city out to the country calling and whining about the road bot being smooth. And, if you are unfortunate enough to live near one of the mega dairies, you can expect your road to be impassable a couple times at least a year. And once it starts snowing, our policy is EVERY road gets plowed, The day of a snowstorm, and again, day after day, until the roads are pushed back and clear. You have to be MOVING to plow 80 miles of roads in 8 hours, since you are actually plowing 160 miles of road. And every turn you make at every mile, slows you considerably, especially if there is ice under the snow, or if it is wet snow. And we do this with trucks, there are 14 of us. I have 3 villages in my territory that have to be plowed as well. A truck gets around much faster than a grader, and will plow snow faster than a grader. But, a grader is a more useful tool for scraping roads, it has more capabilities than a truck. Thats why they probably need 16 graders. One per township most likely.
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