In Midwest, where they know snow, now plows are snow-smart, too Street fight. Technology would be the conduit. Foremen can check the main system interface to locate trucks and dispatch the closest to areas needing work.
Trucks primarily maintain their own jurisdiction's roads and answer only to their main agency.
But the four jurisdictions share data through OrbTrac-100 and can ask one another for help. For example, say a Macomb County foreman needed to send a truck to salt an icy bridge. If the system showed that an Oakland County truck by the counties' shared border was closer to the bridge than any of his own trucks, he could contact the Oakland dispatcher and request help. Financial compensation would follow. An unanticipated system benefit is that employees of the four jurisdictions have become acquainted and seek advice from one another, Bryson said.