The city's salt spreaders have been used only three times.

More than 260 plows and salt spreaders started working early Tuesday morning.

Salt spreaders parked along roads, ready to go at the first sign of snow.

Following in their wake were 350 salt spreaders.

Ever since, no Mayor has dallied in getting out the snowplows and salt spreaders.

Earlier yesterday, the city Sanitation Department deployed 500 workers and 359 salt spreaders, officials said.

It may sound obvious, but the snow ploughs and salt spreaders need to be ahead of you, not behind you in the queue!

During the recent snowstorms, they operated salt spreaders and drove pickup trucks with plows.

Salt spreaders were out in force until every street that wasn't a sheet of black glass crunched like cinders underfoot.

In a few hours, the snow was melting, while plows and rock- salt spreaders concentrated on main and secondary roads.

A gritter, also known as a sander, salt spreader or salt truck, is found on most winter service vehicles.

Meantime, battalions of salt spreaders and sanders were out, trying to minimize the dangers on roads that looked like polished ebony.

Salt spreaders and sanders were unable to keep up with the heavy snowfall, and numerous minor accidents were reported.

The deficit grew by the hour when the department dispatched its full complement of 597 plows and salt spreaders around the northern third of the state.

But armies of snowplows and salt spreaders were out around the clock, and an overnight lull in the snowfall allowed time to catch up.

About 300 salt spreaders rolled through New York City late Monday as flurries turned into a steady but light snowfall.

Legions of plows and salt spreaders stood ready to avoid a repeat of the 1969 snowstorm known as the Lindsay Snow.

The company also manufactures a variety of truck-mounted sand and salt spreaders, snowplow replacement parts and snow removal accessories.

By afternoon, 1,272 snowplows and 350 salt spreaders were moving through the streets, while the more ambitious homeowners were out shoveling walks and driveways.

On Sunday, it readied 256 snowplows armed with salt spreaders and added another 50 garbage trucks fitted with snowplows.

City sanitation workers aboard 1,000 plow-equipped trucks and 300 salt spreaders were out before, during and after the storm, said a spokesman, Al O'Leary.

In many quarters in Westchester last week, snow plows and salt spreaders were lined up ready to go, and road workers had been put on 24-hour call.

"We have 353 salt spreaders loaded as a first line of defense," said Keith Mellis, a spokesman for the City Sanitation Department.

In New York City, the snow was met by a large assemblage of salt spreaders and plows that was apparently more than sufficient to meet the challenge.

The salt spreaders, which cost a total of $4.2 million, automatically relay all this information to a centralized database, which is watched closely by sanitation officials during blizzards.