Northwest Specialized Resources

About Northwest Specialized Resources

Out past the edge of downtown Williston, the yards tied to the oil patch spread wide and flat, acres of gravel and parked equipment that need a different approach to snow than any residential street in town. Northwest Specialized Resources works those industrial properties, pushing snow off wide gravel lots and access roads where a plow has to clear enough width for heavy trucks to turn without getting stuck in a windrow. Snow out here doesn't just fall, it travels — a flat, open yard with nothing to break the wind lets a storm redistribute a foot of snow into drifts three times that deep against whatever's parked or stacked. Clearing those yards means sizing up where the equipment itself is likely to catch a drift, since every stack of pipe or parked trailer creates its own small pile on the leeward side. This crew's work often finishes well after the storm has, once the wind has had its say about where the snow actually ends up.