Winter weather makes for long days for tow companies and public works employees

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- Since late Sunday night, tow trucks and plow trucks have been working tirelessly to make the roads safe for drivers. 

“When it’s a family business it’s definitely a part of life. It’s not a job. You either do it or you don’t,” said Jerry Jones a co-owner of a local tow company.

Jones Automotives and Towing has been around Bowling Green for the last 20 years. Jerry Jones was 11 hours into his 12-hour shift while WNKY’s Lexi Schweinert road along with him.

“The side roads are the worst. Most of the main roads they’ve salted or scraped. We’ve seen a lot of them sliding off the side roads. Nobody’s really getting stuck yet, but I think it’s gonna be a lot worse in the next few days,” said Jones. 

While the tow trucks are working to pull people out of the ditches, the city’s Public Works Department is working to keep that from happening at all. 

“The higher traffic volume roads are cleaner because traffic helps clean them and generally those are the first to get salt and to get plowed. So definitely the less traveled roads, the neighborhood roads, are not going to be cleared yet,” said Bowling Green Public Works Director Greg Meredith. 

Jones warns that even when the sleet and snow stops, water will remain. 

“People will try to pull in their yard and they don’t realize how wet the ground is and so they get stuck. We do a lot of that three or four days after the snow’s melted and gone,” said Jones.  

WNKY News will continue to keep you updated on what the road conditions are throughout this week.