Midnight in the shop, and the plow rigs stand in a row with the salt already loaded, which is what a storm looks like before anybody sees a flake. Quality Auto Truck & Tire runs snow removal across Hillsborough Township, clearing driveways and lots and treating the ice that shows up behind the snow. Trucks are the trade here, and a truck that fires up at two in the morning in a wind coming off open farmland is worth more than any promise. The township's back roads drift wherever the fields run wide, and those are the passes that get made twice. By breakfast the pavement is dark again.