Shopping Center Snow Hauling

What This Service Involves

After a few Western Washington snow events, the pushed piles at a shopping center can swallow prime parking rows and block the visibility drivers depend on. Because our region thaws and refreezes so often, those piles become ice mounds that linger long after the snow stops. Our crews load and haul the snow off-site so every stall reopens and tenants keep their traffic. We schedule hauling around store hours to keep the disruption to shoppers minimal.

Benefits

Reclaims parking stalls lost to pushed snow piles; Restores driver sightlines around the lot; Removes ice mounds that linger through thaw cycles; Scheduled around hours to minimize shopper disruption

Our Process

1) We assess pile locations and the parking they're blocking; 2) We load snow with appropriate equipment into trucks; 3) We haul it to an approved off-site disposal location; 4) We clean up the staging areas and reopen the stalls

What Affects the Cost

Total volume of snow to be loaded and hauled; Distance to the approved disposal site; Equipment required for loading and transport; Off-hours or overnight scheduling needs; Number of hauling trips the accumulation demands

Best Time of Year

Hauling becomes necessary after successive snow events or when thaw-refreeze cycles turn piles into ice mounds that won't melt on their own.