Talkin Winter Ops
Listen in on conversations with experts in the field of road weather and winter road maintenance as they explain how their work helps make roads safer and passable during winter storm events.
Podcasting since 2017 • 138 episodes
Talkin Winter Ops
Latest Episodes
Episode 138: Designed for snowplows
Developing an infrastructure project is series of compromises and tradeoffs and so often maintenance and operations considerations end up on the cutting room floor. Unfortunately, those decisions have implications that agencies have to li...
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Season 8
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Episode 138
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Episode 137: Innovation, the little ones are the big ones
A hundred and fifty years ago road departments leaned on the farmers next to the road to help maintain it and often times paid them to do so. As time marched on and road departments became DOTs with dedicated maintenance workers and tools...
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Season 8
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Episode 137
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55:43
Episode 136: Keep snow off the road with Snow Fence, Minnesota style
The easiest snow flake to remove from the roadway is the one that never lands on it. Seems obvious but how to make that happen? On this episode we’re Talkin Winter Ops with Dan Gullickson, Minnesota DOT supervisor of their Blowing S...
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Season 8
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Episode 136
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Episode 135: 2025 National Briefing - No Boundaries
This briefing features the No Boundaries Pool Fund Study. The No Boundaries pooled fund project is a community of practice of state DOT maintenance and operations professionals who share innovative maintenance technologies and practices t...
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Season 8
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Episode 135
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Episode 134: 2025 National Briefing - Professional Snowfighters Association
This briefing features the Professional Snowfighters Association a North American based non-profit professional association dedicated to creating a community of practice, based upon adherence to sound science as it seeks to improve knowledge an...
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Season 8
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Episode 134
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43:44