Unless it's gonna change this year they use brine in MO too. I looked on MoDOT website and last year just in my county they used 51,000 gallons of brine alone.

 

I was talking roads.

I didn't know CO use the acid know as Mag Chloride. that's WORSE than salt!!!!

I guess we are "spoiled" out here by driving on clear roads in the winter.

I guess I will just have to move to a state that doesnt get snow

 

I will take mag chloride any day before I would take salt. None of my vehicles have rust on them. All though I don't know why they use it because that s*** can be more slippery than ice.

 

Mag chloride is more aggressive to metal than salt. I guess they just use less of it and it has not been used for the past 30+ years. I guess you will see in 15 years it nasty effects

 

Iowa DOT uses brine county highways use sand salt mixture

 

Snow? Not if were lucky. Brine I'm fairly sure we put down every year.

 

CDOT uses it I just find it hard to believe because the vehicles here are rust free.

 

Not surprisingly, here in MA they use a mixture of brine (rarely) and rock salt (mostly).

From December through March, the black asphalt is painted pure white...

 

Utah.

Is Utah a salt free state?

 

Salt in Kansas City area.

Uncle told me they use a brine with beet juice in SE Missouri (bootheel area)

 

In my part of the world, (NE South Dakota) it is plow and sand. Some towns may add a de-icer agent (Sioux Falls might), but as far as I know, the state and counties districts don't use it. It is 5 miles of gravel roads for me to get to a highway, so I am happy to get the plow!

 

How about Oklahoma?

 

N.C. is a brine pre-treatment and rock salt after the event, maybe some sand. Not enough snow/ice here near Charlotte to worry much about it. I worked in Charlotte's Fleet Management Div for 27 years, snows...you go. Never any trouble with a 4x4, even with just street tires. Several washout trips through the car was and it's pretty much clean again. Some of the truck rust I see here just freaks me! My 94 nor the longbed on the parts truck have ANY rust over the wheel wells. :-)

 

Nope, they paint the roads white before a storm. If you own a black vehicle its white for three months out of the year haha. I wish they would quit salting all the neighborhoods and just stick to the main routes.

 

Thanks, good to know. I was looking at a truck out there, I'll stay away