Mannheim Road never really sleeps, and neither does a snow crew on a night when the flakes come sideways under the sodium lights. All Ways Paving works the hours nobody sees: the lot cleared and stacked while the storefronts are dark, the apron opened wide enough that a delivery truck can swing in without hesitating, salt worked into the film before it can turn to glass. The reward is a west-suburban morning where the first car of the day rolls across bare pavement and the driver never thinks about it once. Snow here arrives fast off open country and drifts back into the corners it was just pushed out of, so the passes get repeated until the surface stays honest. Plowing, salting, walkway clearing, and hauling the piles somewhere they will not block a sightline — that is the work. Winter in Proviso Township is mostly a matter of showing up before the sun does.