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    A winter service vehicle (WSV), or snow removal vehicle, is a vehicle specially designed or adapted to clear thoroughfares of ice and snow. Winter service...
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    over roads and pathways is commonly done either by hand or with a winter service vehicle and helps improve road safety in frosty conditions. The salt helps...
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    United States and some cities in Bavaria. Hiring a contractor with a winter service vehicle or a shovel. In many high elevation or heavy snow accumulating areas...
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    Snowplow (category Commercial vehicles)
    term is often used to refer to vehicles mounting such devices, more accurately they are known as winter service vehicles,[where?] especially in areas that...
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    ice-melting process. Road salt and brine are generally spread using a winter service vehicle called a salt spreader. Salt spreaders are typically added to trucks...
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    wastewater treatment facility.: 68–80  Atmospheric icing Pollution Winter service vehicle Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles, Ben J. Kefford, Christophe Piscart, Narcís...
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    Dump truck (category Engineering vehicles)
    clearance to walk between the dumped load and the trailer. Many winter service vehicles are based on dump trucks, to allow the placement of ballast to...
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    (457 to 508 mm) path, to the very large, mounted onto heavy-duty winter service vehicles and capable of moving 20-foot (6.10 m) wide, or wider, swaths of...
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    (December 23, 2022). "Toronto winter storm updates: More than a third of flights cancelled at Pearson airport; up to 100 vehicles involved in collisions on...
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    The Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) (CVR(T)) is a family of armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) developed in the 1960s and is in service with the...
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    The 2011 Groundhog Day blizzard was a powerful and historic winter storm that affected large swaths of the United States and Canada from January 31 to...
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    An all-wheel drive vehicle (AWD vehicle) is one with a powertrain capable of providing power to all its wheels, whether full-time or on-demand. The most...
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    An electric vehicle (EV) is a vehicle whose propulsion is powered fully or mostly by electricity. EVs include road and rail vehicles, electric boats and...
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    A vehicle breakdown is a mechanical or electrical failure of a motor vehicle in such a way that the underlying problem prevents the vehicle from being...
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    A flexible-fuel vehicle (FFV) or dual-fuel vehicle (colloquially called a flex-fuel vehicle) is an alternative fuel vehicle with an internal combustion...
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    burning flames produce carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. Metromelt Winter service vehicle "Trecan Combustion". Trecan.com. Archived from the original on 2014-02-19...
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    couple of days later. The storm resulted in the National Weather Service issuing various winter weather alerts impacting over 170 million Americans. Over 9...
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  • Forecast Offices (WFO) of the National Weather Service in the United States when one or more types of winter precipitation—snow, rain and snow mixed, freezing...
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    sub-type of emergency vehicle equipment, emergency vehicle lighting is generally used by emergency vehicles and other authorized vehicles in a variety of colors...
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    Rollins Pass (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the National Park Service)
    Retrieved February 1, 2022. "Abandoned & Out-of-Service Railroad Lines". Google My Maps. "MOTOR VEHICLE TRAVEL AND DEVELOPED TRAIL RESTRICTIONS : ARAPAHO...
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    The Marauder is an armoured, mine-protected vehicle that is produced by Paramount Group in South Africa. It was launched during the 2007 International...
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    Pansarbandvagn 302 (category Military vehicles introduced in the 1960s)
    meaning roughly armoured tracked carrier vehicle 302, is a Swedish high-mobility infantry fighting vehicle (Swedish: pansarskyttefordon) used by the...
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    deicing and anti-icing of roads, both in grit bins and spread by winter service vehicles. In anticipation of snowfall, roads are optimally "anti-iced" with...
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    An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or unmanned aircraft system (UAS), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft with no human pilot, crew, or passengers...
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    Weather portal Parking space reservation in snowstorms Snow removal Winter service vehicle Picture of signs with flashing blue light in Somerville, Massachusetts...
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    A winter storm is an event in which wind coincides with varieties of precipitation that only occur at freezing temperatures, such as snow, mixed snow and...
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  • Thumbnail for 2023–24 North American winter
    The 2023–24 North American winter was the warmest winter on record across the contiguous United States, with below-average snowfall primarily in the Upper...
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    The Canadian Light Rail Vehicle (CLRV) and Articulated Light Rail Vehicle (ALRV) were types of streetcars used by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)...
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    or road maintenance, e.g. Winter service vehicles, cleaning vehicles etc. On 30 June 2021, 799 industrial and work vehicles and 268 work trailers were...
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    An armoured fighting vehicle (British English) or armored fighting vehicle (American English) (AFV) is an armed combat vehicle protected by armour, generally...
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