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Iowa DOT uses snowplow simulator for training

Iowa DOT continues its leadership in snowfighting, unveiling its new $195,000 semi-trailer-housed snowplow simulator used to train its 1,200 snowfighting employees as a story in today's Des Moines Register explains.


Posted by Dick Hanneman on November 1, 2006 09:46 AM | Permalink

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