CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) - The Missouri Department of Transportation held its annual winter weather drill, which gives snow plow drivers a chance to get familiar with the routes they’ll clear when the snow and ice fall this winter.

“So it’s quite a lengthy process. It’s not something that’s a one-and-done,” said MoDOT Assistant Maintenance Supervisor

And that’s why this MoDOT lot in Scott City is empty right now. New drivers are out training to handle winter weather cleanup.

Wessel led a class of 25 new hires on Wednesday morning.

“Our program, we will let them ride with the veteran for four hours, and then we turn around and we let them drive with a veteran for four hours to ask questions and things like that until they’re comfortable, and then until we are comfortable with t

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