AutoScott Services

About AutoScott Services

North Pole sits just down the road from Fairbanks along the Richardson Highway, close enough to the Tanana flats that ice fog can hang for days once the temperature drops toward forty below, thick enough to blur the giant candy-cane lamppost outside the Santa Claus House to a soft glow. AutoScott Services works through that cold on driveways and lots along streets named for the season the town is known for, plowing snow that squeaks underfoot in weather too cold for it to pack or slide the way it does anywhere milder. Vehicles left running or driveways left uncleared in this kind of cold aren't a small inconvenience, so getting a driveway open before dawn matters as much here as anywhere in the state. The Chena River, ice-locked by then, runs quiet nearby while the plow works block after block under sodium streetlights that stay on nearly all day this time of year. Cutting a clean path through snow this dry and this cold, in a town whose whole identity leans into winter, is its own kind of interior craft.