Originally Posted by
ItsJustMe
Well, by "real plow" I guess I meant a truck that is designed ground up to be a plow. I haven't seen any of them around here (lower peninsula of Michigan) and few farther north. Most road commissions have multipurpose trucks that they mount snow blades on as required.
You may have seen trucks designed for plows and not realized it. My brother works for a state highway department and says the major difference between regular trucks and plows is the frame. Plows need a stronger, possibly stiffer frame to take the shock of hitting wind packed snowdrifts. My brother said they tried some regular trucks and had problems with the frames bending when hitting those snowdrifts.