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Sanding Trucks Roll Again In North Texas

By BJ Austin

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Dallas, TX –

TxDOT sanding and de-icing crews are on the road again as another winter storm rolls through North Texas.

Val Lopez, in the Tarrant County TxDOT office says he's not looking for a repeat of last week.

Lopez: Certainly the weather will be difficult. There's no doubt about that. But it doesn't look like the same magnitude of what we had last week. That said, we are brining in some additional plows. We do expect some buildup of snow. We'll have those forces, specifically from Lubbock, available to us in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

TxDOT Dallas says more than 450 employees are working 12 hours shifts again this week to keep the major freeways passable.
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