Snow Removal Operation in Montreal - First snowfall of December 2024

[@bluemule6278]

What is it about us guys,we just love watching this no matter what age.

[@craigjones4810]

As a kid I was always mesmerized by those giant snow blowers...and at 55 I still am!

[@mhepping]

Professional, coordinated and first class operation! Tabarnak!

[@hwh6237]

Playing hockey here years ago I used to love watching this operation from hotels. Truly is the best in the world

[@SebastianWarth]

Awesome Video!

[@giulianamilani-ti5bv]

Nel vostro lavoro siete superbi, vi abbraccio e vi auguro Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo 👋🇮🇹

[@peterargento8488]

I love your videos Keep them coming Great job And Happy Holidays to everyone 🎅🌲☃️

[@configuremakeinstall]

Pretty impressive, what does the timeline look like for doing the same across the city? Is there an expectation for all streets to be plowed after a certain number of days after a snowfall?

[@sabbywins]

It depends, but broadly, yes. Major roads will be done first, residential streets after that. They will do a first pass on every road with a plow to make sure there is at least one accessible lane, though.

[@geedubb-q1u]

They know they’re coming and still leave their cars parked there. Surprised the tow truck guy didn’t move them. The guys do good work.👍

[@MontrealTruckSpotting]

Sometime it's easier not to try to understand people.. every sign was on, website was showing it, sirene car, and multiple horns..

[@brucekatkin5310]

I can't see signs saying they would be plowing. Normally they have disposable signs on the snowbanks. Since it is raining, maybe city decided to remove snow at last minute. This happened to me many years ago when I lived in Montreal, but they moved the cars with no tickets as it was a Main Street.

[@ewanwiebe]

@DustinHennesseyin my city they stopped towing cars because of damage claims and now they just take photos and give tickets

[@johnnaughton2364]

Sometimes people are away on vacation or disabled.

[@Jkub101]

Bet those cars below to immigrants

[@jaysartori9032]

I would love to have a job like that!!!

[@rowland5951]

Thank you, Arthur Sicard

[@ChristianDHeer]

Alle Jahre wieder, dieses Jahr mit neuem Equipment 👍

[@jean-michelb7290]

2 beaux criss de champion !

[@MontrealTruckSpotting]

Ça arrive trop souvent cette année... Ça claxonne sur un méchant temps

[@jean-michelb7290]

@MontrealTruckSpotting ça arrive partout et tout le temps. Surtout avec la crise des immigrants.. nos routes se transforment tranquillement en scène de cirques

[@msterpeter1]

@@MontrealTruckSpotting l'hiver passée c,était deux noireaux a la meme place,je serais pas surpris que se soit encore les memes.

[@jean-michelb7290]

@@richardturgeon8342 la ville les relocalises et ils ont un ticket

[@diannmccoy9654]

Yeah, what they said🥴.

[@ninjabugy]

Love to see the caterpillar machine doing work on removing snow

[@truckingchipy1239]

It’s weird seeing a CAT that large doing that but I’m all for it

[@keithbennett5519]

Awesome video here thx for sharing, Some divers are rude and don't move there cars i see

[@willwilson3024]

Quite an operation. I hate to think of the cost of it! We get snow so rarely in England most people just Tay at home and wait for the thaw, usually writhing a couple of days. Goodness knows how we would manage with a prolonged snow event.

[@guspaz]

Montreal has (or did at one point, I've not checked recently) the highest snow removal budget of any city on the planet. It's a combination of several factors: a large city with a population in the millions (so lots of urban and suburban roads to clear), an average of 85 inches of snow per year (so lots of snow to clear), and the city being on an island (so limited dumping space).

[@Cool-trucks-and-car-washes]

1:33 YES AWAY WITH THE PARKED CARS. I’ve been waiting so long for a new video like this. Edit: awwww I thought the cars got towed☹️

[@MontrealTruckSpotting]

@@Cool-trucks-and-car-washes in the next one! Still the blue car but he get yell at, and moved.

[@Cool-trucks-and-car-washes]

@ good. He got it easy. In my city there don’t use blowers they push it all to the side. When the graders come if you don’t move, you get boxed in, fined and you have to dig out your car. Usually the snow is frozen after as well.

[@DrPrutteklutt]

Can You explain a little bit please?! What Time is it when they Start these work? and in the beginning he is beeping to get the People to move their Cars? maybe waking them up? Greetings from Germany 🙂

[@maey8910]

so, theres no set time when they start, as far as i know. but the day of the operation, little orange signs are put up on the street poles which warn people not to park on that side of the street for a set time. the beeping is, yes, to get people who are parked on that side of the street to move their cars. and they'll hang out for a while honking. usually, theyll play a siren sound, sort of like an ambulance but with a different tone. eventually, theyll either plow around the offending car or tow the car away so that the plough can go through. ive watched several times as a car is almost towed, only for the driver to come back in the last second and drive it away.

[@guspaz]

The people were told to move their cars in advance and failed to do so, so the honking is to try to get them to come outside to move them. Before the snow clearing operation begins, the tow trucks will drive around the roads sounding a special siren (sounds like a European ambulance siren but much louder and alternating much faster) to remind people to move their cars if they haven't already done so. The snow clearing operation begins soon after the snow has stopped falling, and continues 24/7 until all the snow is cleared. The full operation takes several days. However they are only allowed to sound the siren between 7AM and 9PM. In the winter, the sun sets in Montreal as early as just after 4PM.

[@PhasenReise]

Sei mal ehrlich: Hast Du schonmal so einen Schwachsinn bei uns gesehen? 10x mit dem Radlader die Straße hoch und runter und nur den Schnee hin und her zu schieben? Und das in Kanada, wo man meinen würde das da Schnee im Winter alltäglich ist.

[@shiftangles]

You hear the beep you get your butt out of bed and move your car. There is also an app that tell you when each street is being cleared so you have a heads up.

[@Nobody_important_at_all]

Remember when it used to snow sometimes in October?

[@NebXHennes]

Ist ja mega anzusehen.....aber das uneffiziente arbeiten macht mich wahnsinnig. Der eine schiebt den Schnee nach links, der andere nach rechts und dann kommt wieder einer, der alles zurück schiebt....😅😅😅😅

[@guspaz]

Dabei entsteht ein schmaler Haufen, den die Schneefräse in einem Durchgang aufnehmen kann.

[@batchint]

in #nyc they have a road sign…. ‘raise plow’… #washingtonsquare is there not a reason to develop the hand shovel with wheels attached yet… 🎉

[@audreyelizabethmellor6805]

I live in the UK, no snow here sadly. Can I ask where do people park their cars if they are ploughing all the roads. Thanks Happy Christmas 🎄

[@guspaz]

Anywhere else, around the block perhaps. There is lots of notification of the snow clearing operation, and cars that don't move are often towed to a nearby street. Not sure why the two cars seen in this video were not towed.

[@getataste]

@@guspazprobably no towtrucks available as there probably is higher priority streets

[@guspaz]

@ in the video a tow truck stops for a while next to one of the two cars, but doesn’t take it.

[@thomasbaker3262]

Come see Chicago snow storm where you’re lucky if a plow comes near your house let alone down the road. This town is very lucky to have this

[@ryang6k]

Town lol. This is the 2nd or 3rd biggest metropolis in Canada.

[@thomasbaker3262]

@ryang6k whatever it's called. Word Police

[@raincoast9010]

@@ryang6k and guess who pays for it? Transfer payment from Alberta, you're welcome!

[@bopodoq3069]

@@raincoast9010Federal transfer payments don’t pay for municipal snow removal.

So much attention for one street, I wonder what the other streets look like?

[@jeff3685]

Probly have 10ft of snow

[@JeepCustoms-41]

haha you're joking right? look at the row of snow going all the way down the other street at 5:20. Do you really think they do one street at a time?

@@JeepCustoms-41 They have that kind of man power?

[@MontrealTruckSpotting]

The neighbor is done with the same care. It's the same company and same pattern

[@msterpeter1]

every street in Montreal no exception is cleaned both sides...no snow left

[@richards200]

Why do they bother with the extra step of the grader? Just seems like it's making more of a mess after the plow has been through, and pretty useless traction too??

[@Walking_In_Dark]

Слаженно работают, приятно смотреть. Но чертова погода. чертов дождь.

[@DomenicRamacciato-uo4dr]

Oh crap Look at that old school yellow international salter

[@mikemuppet3807]

if i heard right, already we have shattered the record for most snowfall by this time of year globally, think its near double which means in the colder months its going to be bad.

[@Mrcoffindodger]

sounds like its pissing down with rain, and how many times does the same machine have to go over the same piece of road jesus its like jobs for the boys. What time of the day is this at also looks early.

[@lennymiller9308]

It's done over night when there's no traffic. They know what they're doing.

[@timokorhonen7296]

Miksi sitä lunta pitää leipoa a edestakaisin?

[@SkyOfTheUniverse]

Elton said you are stealing his cheese

[@MontrealTruckSpotting]

@@SkyOfTheUniverse where that ?

[@colinkulasik1128]

So why didn't the tow truck move those cars??

[@maey8910]

sometimes they do, and other times they dont. im not actually sure why thats the case. my hypothesis is that when the snow is less severe, they dont tow, and when it is, they do

[@AmNesia-r5h]

Are the roads up there messed up from the plows? Or are the streets built stronger? Or are the plows less damaging?

[@Kingkoopa00]

That would have been made 10 times easier if those two car owners had had the decency to move their cars like everyone else did... smh.

[@jasm.5823]

American minds can’t comprehend what is happening 😂. Wow, just wow!

[@ventilate4267]

They plow as if they have OCD tbh. I shovel my sidewalk as if I do as well but, seems pretty wasteful to do it at this scale

[@Julian.133]

Einfach radlader auf der Straße 😂

[@djteako]

Gotta criticize those grader operators though. I though the Volvo was bad, but that second guy, in the Champion starting at around 11:30, has NO business operating that machine !!!!!!

[@truckingchipy1239]

Both are still better than any of us lol

[@djteako]

@truckingchipy1239 lol. Well not sure about that. I only have about 600 hrs seat time in a grader, but if I know enough to know the mistakes they are making, I know enough to not make them!

[@truckingchipy1239]

Ya i don’t sorry for assumin bud, just looked slippery to me is all, I know nothin bout operatin them, I’ll try to keep quiet next time lol

[@djteako]

@@truckingchipy1239 no worries. It's not like I said I was a former HEO. And I sure didn't take any offense to your comment

[@GabrielW2017]

looks like wasting money for me.. one round on the street and the walk, then another one for the truck removal. ??? you dont need to pass same place 15 times...

[@GabrielW2017]

@@jay1373 well.. dont you see the problem yourself?

[@pierre-oliviergaron3552]

Les loaders sont beaucoup trop gros en degel ils vont se faire coller

[@fivethreezerothaoe]

They don’t clean it up that good here 😢

[@sylvainlariviere264]

Maudite ville 😤🤬

[@wademacdougall1600]

Quebec taxes at work,4 Peace's of equipment just to put a little bit of snow in a row, and a snow blower to remove $$$$$$$

[@truckingchipy1239]

Best use of tax money in my opinion, seems to have upgraded them to a new CAT loader

[@akitas8165]

Why would anyone want to live in that frozen wasteland ?

[@grahamhandsworth49]

you talk like a true American. Maybe google why Canada is the most desirable country in the world to live. The states doesn't even make the list. Montreal is a world class city. What dump do you live in?

[@truckingchipy1239]

Cause why not, I got no reason other than I like it here

[@DomenicRamacciato-uo4dr]

Oh crap Look at that old school yellow international salter