with all that's been said regarding plowing, I really appreciate all your guys' input regardless that my truck is too nice or too long.
I went looking in the paper and the web for a "plow truck" only to find out that it might be too late in the season to land a good deal. It seems folks are gearing up for the season already and the "deal" in an ad was sold right away.
I highly regard your advice and real world experiences, they're real entertaining. I can visualize every bit of it.

The issue of salt (to me) would be the fact that once you spread it, you're going to be backing up over it in the slush over and again so it seems that the salt you just spread would be picked up by your own vehicle just because there is so much back and forth driving while plowing a parking lot for instance.

Again guys thanks for your experiences!