RI Dept. Of Transportation Looking To Hire Snow Plow Drivers

PROVIDENCE, RI — Do you have a truck equipped with a snow plow? The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is looking for you.

The department is accepting applications for winter vendors. Applications can be submitted through a form on RIDOT's website. Contract terms are competitive, the department said.

"Snow removal is a 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week operation," RIDOT said on its winter weather website. "And it is a massive one."

Each year, the department budgets around $20 million for winter weather management. That funding goes towards approximately 125,000 tons of salt, 10,000 tons of sand and 14,000 gallons on brine. It also pays for road preparation ahead of storms, maintaining equipment and other essential services to be winter weather ready, the department said.