Stan Don't blame you one bit on giving up smaller gas station, convenience stores, etc. Too much effort & time involved having to put up with the inconsiderate public that can't seem to be understandable of caution vehicles !! Many years ago I worked in northern Maryland on interstate 95. We we doing tandum "V" plowing lead truck center lane, two trucks directly behind pushing slow lane & fast lane & last two trucks pushing right & left shoulders). I was in truck pushing fast lane shoulder & had a Greyhound bus less than 3 ft behind me trying to get past us. Our snow policy was to "NEVER" allow traffic to pass or squeeze between us while plowing. Bus driver finally got fustrated since I wouldn't let him through & passed me on my left side not knowing my left side was dirt with grass in the medium & not a hardtop shoulder. Needless to say bus took a trip down a steep embakment, rolled over on its side (luckily no severe injuries). Karma bit the bus driver big time & I was told I did exactually what I was supposed to do & did not get any repercussions from State Police of my station Manager !!!

The snow plowing videos are what brought me to this channel, now I stick around for all the rest! But it has been nice to see some plowing videos recently, who knew that Mother Nature would wait until April to have Stan get the plows out!

Music is sick on this one Stan, you must’ve enabled the surround sounds… couldn’t tell if sound was coming from my phone or the next room! Awesome!

great content Stanley and team! over here in Montreal we had a very mild winter, best season to do snow on salary LOL

I give the guy that had only used old school controls credit! It's not easy to go from old school to new school that quick! Great job guys!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Didn’t see much snow removal this year. I live in Central New York, Syracuse, Utica, Rome area. Usually snow central, this year the grass got covered for a few days but never lost its green. Exceptionally mild. Great to see your crew getting some work as light as this winter was. Actually needing to relocate snow piles was probably the last thing I expected to see this winter. Wishing you, your crew, and families the best.

We were slow in Edmonton..about half as busy....we used to do gas stations until... The operator was scraping hard packed snow on the pump islands...backed up a couple of feet and rear-ended a car that was tail-gating him ...suing for a cool million...barely a scratch..no injuries....suing for PTSD!!!!!

You've paid your dues and I'm happy you don't have to deal with unreasonable people anymore

Greetings from Chandler, AZ (Phoenix). Our winter was a bit colder, cloudier, windier and wetter than normal. Yes, near paradise for many from the Midwest or Canada, but my least favorite of the 20+ that I've experienced here.

Pretty slim pickins in NW minneota this winter. I was out only about a handful of times. Snowmobile businesses are hurtin too!

Midland Michigan here. Winter was basically a no show here.i have a all private drive I maintain and only plowed it once this year.

Great video... Here in the Lakes Region NH, i got 77 inches per my CST snow report i pay for to strack storms, and have proof of the snow amoand charges for plowing. Looking to get into Brine Application next season and starting the planning and budgeting.

Stan I'm posting my second comment to this video. I too no longer deal with crappy customers. I've told many over the years that I have so many good people to work for that I do not need to work for butt heads. After a terrible snow year here also/ worst one in 25 years it was so heartwarming how many of my customers sent me advances or asked me if I needed advances for future work. Some gave me or my employees gift cards, some even sent cash, which I passed on to my guys as they are just as reliant on some OT as I am on them working OT.

Biggest Jerk's are the one's that park right next to the snow pile

Great video. Bemidji area here. Only used the snow blower twice? maybe three times? Never did get the plow hooked up, got it ready then never used it.

We had a slow start but a busy finish to our winter. Fell 3” shy of an all time record for March in Southern Alberta

I'm in Northeast CT. Our first snow was January and we got 5 good storms and it was a promising start. Then we got an 8 inch storm in February and that was it. I cleaned and greased the sander and plow the first week of March and put them away to try and tempt Mother Nature, but we never got any more storms the rest of winter.

Hi Stanley, my name is Tim and I am in central Michigan mount pleasant area15 miles north west of there,our winters the last few years have been not much snow at all like in the old days, my plow vehicle is a 1976 Jeep cj5 no lights blinkers or nothing just use it around the neighborhood.

We all know why these cities are going downhill it’s no secret…

Good morning, Stan. Thanks for another fun video! It makes me miss my old paving job, where this would be our winter work. We had a great crew. Have a great day. God bless.

Great video Stan. I"m an hour and 15 minutes SE of you along the river. 25 years in the business for me running 5 guys including myself and this was my worst year by far. We Plowed 1 time that we did everything and 1 time we did most everything. Another half dozen or so that we did our sidewalk runs and some commercial lots (We do alot of miles of commercial and residential walks. Almost zero salt and or sanding. I have some contracts but most are by the time. Revenues were down 70% over a normal year. Sad part is that we didn't get near the snow last year that the Twin Cities had. 60 inches was our total for 2022-2023. As hard as I have tried to get customers on contracts it seems my competition fights it. You make inroads after a snowy season, but then a year like this and theirs no way to talk someone into a contract. Still a few guys doing stuff for nothing in my area, got 1 long timer still doing driveways for 8 bucks fortunately he only gets about 2 an hour done, but they are starting to drop by the wayside, as 60 grand for a truck and plow is alot of money to get started. Keep them videos coming.

Where do you guys dump the snow when you have to haul it off site? or do you just pay another company to take care of it?

I once had guy park in a parking lot my family owns and is marked as private property so built a snow bunker around him he was not able to his car he left in December out until June no other companies would dig him outback and police told him he was trespassing so he is liable for all damages and is also trespassing if he try’s to dig himself out

I live in New Hampshire our winter was very mild. Maybe 7-8ft of snow total when we normally get 15-20ft

had someone sitting in car watching me and they did not move then got mad when they had to walk thru snow

I live outside of St Louis and we had only one good snow about 4" but the next day it was in the 50 degrees and melted pretty fast. We had a very below normal snow fall.

Good call with the roll offs, so much easier to load those boxes with smaller equipment vs a 10-wheeler

Stan hauling snow reminds me of Chicago back in 1999 I was in Key Largo when it hit and we had 8 20 yard dumpsters running for 5 days.

Proper snow, something you see very rarely here in the UK now. The last time I saw snow like that here was in the beginning on 2018. If it snowed properly like this every year there would be a lot more work for landscaping businesses through the colder months. As for people intentionally sneaking up behind you in the hopes of causing an accident, do they not find themselves in trouble with the law for doing that?

Here in Idaho as long as the plow has a rotating yellow beacon light on top of the cab or truck roof State law the Plow has the right of way at all times. The State plow trucks will literally shove vehicles off the road or shoulder without slowing down! And here at least the scam drivers try and pull is the old "my car is stuck can you just pull or push me out ..... please". I'm sure Stan you and crew have learned but you newbies take my word, Just Don't Do It!!! Even if she's pretty .... tell them to call a towing outfit as you are just the plow guy.

My dad has owned his owned small copier biz for 30 years working in the twin cities he won't do Minneapolis either he's got one more customer on the outskirts

You are right Stan people do that attentionally stay safe

Our winter in Buffalo aside from a few major storms one in November and one in January otherwise we hardly had any snow

Hey Stan look up Montreal snow removal trucks , for load out as big as you have there maybe something to invest in

Well Stan, now that Minnesota just declared that the inside of a car is PUBLIC SPACE, just get in and move the car for him. Yeah, can you believe MN pulled that stupid crap? I'm not suprised. That state has gone to Hell. I hate seeing good people like you stuck in a place like that. But I understand that your business, family ... everything is their. So yeah anyway, dont put anything inside your vehicles.

I bet you don’t have to haul snow out like this much anymore. It’s only going to get worse. I remember here in Pennsylvania when we would get 4 to 6 inches a week now the last 4 years we gotten 10 to 15 inches for the whole winter. Most of the storms melt before you can even get out to plow it. Just not much money to make where I’m located anymore.

THAT'S AN EPIC BEARD!

Same as you here in Central Wisconsin

i am in northern maine never seen a winter like we had this year we had more snow in april then all winter long

Maybe it's time to invest in some dashcams that face out the back. Always a good piece of insurance.

Where do you dump all that snow?

the governmental one it seems big and nice did you fire this too?

Stan, I'm 23, I only know hand foot controls on a skid loader. Also, in CO, we barely got any snow.

I really love your telling it how it is.

North cent north dakota stan .winter for plowing not worth a darn. An im 1/4 mile from canada. Farm too shes dry now.behinde on moisture for sure up here. Round 850 miles to north west of you roughly.

One of the many F'd up reasons insurance is so ridiculous in Ontario.

Salt Lake City and Rock Springs Wyoming, mild winter

The accounts you dumped.If they were smart,they would have a parking ban during snow storms or removal. Have tow companies available at call. In gatlinsburg tennessee,I follow a you tuber who has a towing business.Too many tourists.Not enough parking spots in town.Signs everywhere saying no parking or towaway zone.Paid parking only or parking for customers only.The apartmenr complexs every renter needs a sticker fort their parking spot Even the airbnbs will call them to get vehicles towed away.They use mostly tow trucks with dollies because most vehicles with all wheel drive and electronic parking brakes can get damage dragging the vehicle towing them wrong.I think it costs between 175 to 300 dollars to get them out of the towing companies impound.

I got a buddy that does parking lot stripping. He sees the same thing. He finally put an end to it by only writing contracts that allow him to block the entrances and disallow parking while hes working.

Where are they taking the snow...a dumping site or a melting site?

Winter went to fast for me I was just getting the 72 inch mower deck out today had to fight with that lol I not ready for spring

Nice one Stan. 👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I live in wv we had no snow this winter

haven’t seen dumpsters being used to haul out snow, how’s it differ from running dump trucks?

Connecticut got crap for snow this year. 👎

I agree about Minneapolis, but that’s Roseville and that building is a private one full of folks that would never want to get hit because they don’t have time to deal with getting their vehicles hit 😂

Glad to see you guys actually got some snow!! We got our asses kicked in Chicago this year. Had an ice night, and random nights of plowing.

minneapolis became a schitt hole when hussein obama let the jihadis in.

I maybe the odd man out here, but I despise having bucket controls on the stick and having all the steering on the other. Give me foot pedals all day.

Lived in MN all my life and Minneapolis is a garbage city. Thanks St Floyd!

I'm in Dahlonega GA no snow

Gets harder all the time to make a legit honest income...

You fired interstate companies?

Stan we used to do a shopping center in Cheltenham pa across the street from row homes in Philadelphia people in used to park in lot over night so they wouldn't have to dig their cars out in morning well we used to plow tons of snow around there cars they were pissed off in morning

Michigan ended up going out of business

Stan I'm in Phoenix, so it's been about the same for the past 10,000 years. But Flagstaff had a better winter this year. Last year 2022/2023 the town was buried, record after record fell.

Caring is directly proportional to age. The older you are, the less you care. Welcome to the club. Enjoy

shame the containers are not heated melt the snow pack more in

What winter I have been back cutting grass since February 15th

Why do you put snow in the dumpsters? Is because it's part of the contract with the customer? My neighbor had pretty much no work for his trucks to snowplow. Now, he's mowing lawns. It's been 70s and rest of time, it's going to be 50s-60s.

135 miles northwest of you, & same-same weather, used my equipment 3 or 4 times only..

South of Boston it suck

can you close the car parks to the public while doing this they have the same problem in the uk so they close the gates to the car park while working there

1inch snow ice at my house east of our county 8 to 9 feet at 6,000 foot

No money is small jobs, too many Chuck in a trucks working for peanuts.

I hope your week is going better than mine. All 3 days this week have had that lousey Monday esthetic. See you on friday!

lol….hand controls take me a minute to wrap my noggin around but I have a few hours on them. I’m more old school, grew up on old case skiddies. All hand and stick. Bobcat hand and foot. No worse than jumping from both excavator setups. I can but I gotta reboot the brain….lol

Hey hey Stan do I have a lot to talk about people who want to disrupt your work area arrogant the fact you are working there basically these people are entitlement people they want to see how far they can push their weight . What I have never understood is why property Management don't work with their vendors will it be snow removal or landscapers where if they're working in a certain area they have a right to tell somebody you need to move hey I know you like talking about side businesses maybe you should get into tow trucking. Because this is where I'm getting at you could tell them to move they want to hold their ground and then you go back up to the window and say hey I am also responsible for towing out vehicles that are not allowed to be in this area when we are working so move now or be towed and here's the big thing because not only are they going to sue you if you hit them they're going to sue the property management because it happened in their property so why don't the property management get smart and say hey during snow remove all our vendors ask you to move and you refused you can't be towed it's when a sign is put up no trespassing and you trespass you get trespassed in a legal matter it should be the same I know you again are looking for extra ways to bring an income maybe you should get a snow towing company and let your clients know hey I need your approval to tell somebody if they're in the car or not when they're disturbing the work I do for you here in California a cop can't give you a ticket if you run through a shopping mall stop sign it's on private property unless the property management agrees to it he can't do nothing but if someone parks in a handicap I believe that's a federal law to help handicap have adequate parking. Man I know I went off on this but that's because I have to deal with parking lots and people who think that their arrogance is more important than all the other people who need to park in that parking lot more than they do and the worst case when you're trying to do society a solid but that doesn't work in their benefit they're just there for them and not for humanity . Matthew 24:12

Alodial title.

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People are assholes

Why would they want you to hit their car? People are messed up?!

I had a dream my muffler fell off my truck, I woke up exhausted....

I still know both hand and hand foot controls but I’ll be honest I’m a better operator with just hand controls Also some of it is just people don’t know or pay attention anymore and think there out of you way while putting themselves right in it but there are definitely a lot of hit me’s I blame colleges for that first thing freshman get taught is to ignore traffic rules because if a collage vehicle hits you you get a free ride to prevent the lawsuit

Why are these guys scooping and spinning 180 degrees every bucket? Back the dumpster and perpendicular to the snow pile and turn 90 degrees instead of 180. This is painful to watch

here to help

Is there something in the water in Minnesota? Seems to be a LOT more videos of strange behavior in this state. An observation, not an opinion.

When was this video flimed?

same here stanley i take care of the fleet farms menards usps all around the twin cites... the bigger you are the more people will try to get hit from you

People are horrible water is wet

Go figure, another liberal city falling by the waste side 😂

"Your Fired" is the video heading. Your what is fired??? Or did you really intend "You're Fired"?? (meaning "You Are Fired")

Where is Sam

You don’t “fire” customers, they are paying you. You just quit on a job you are being paid for. That being said I understand why you quit.

2 maybe 3 real snow event here in CT. Yall can keep denying it but climate change is real. I remember regular 10+ inches every week in the '90s.

I live in New Hampshire 3 ft of snow

We had apartment complexes where u ABSOLUTELY could not back up!!! Pickup!payloader!skidloader!!!

I blame people seeing ads on TV saying I will get you 200,000 if a truck hit you! I know in trucking is what happened

Not one plowable event In Boston in the last 2 years.

northeast vt winter started awesome then died out till mid march then 3 20"+ back to back. 18 pushes for the season not awful.