Clearing the Way for Safer Winter Driving

Understanding how winter roads are maintained can help you make safer decisions about when and how your employees drive for work. Guest speakers Neil Domonkos, fleet equipment trainer for the City of Kelowna, and Chris Cowley, general manager of Mainroad – Northern Vancouver Island, explain how their crews respond to conditions that can change quickly.

In this webinar you’ll learn about:

  • How roads are prioritized, treated, and cleared during winter weather
  • How you can use that information to plan safer trips
  • How to reduce driving risks during severe winter conditions and around road maintenance equipment

Full webinar video: Clearing the Way for Safer Winter Driving

Watch the full webinar or select a key section to go directly to the topic that interests you. You can move between chapters at any time without watching the webinar from the beginning.

Chapters

  1. BC highway maintenance (Chris Cowley, Mainroad)
  2. Municipal highway maintenance (Neil Domonkos, City of Kelowna)
  3. Preparing for winter before it arrives
  4. Journey management and winter driving
  5. Questions

Slides

You can download a PDF of the webinar slides. The file includes a page of links to some of the resources mentioned by the presenters.

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