First Division Parking Lot Services

About First Division Parking Lot Services

Rochester grew up along the routes south out of Olympia, first the old highway and now I-5, and the businesses clustered near its exit still run on the rhythm of through-traffic more than on the town itself. First Division Parking Lot Services plows those corridor lots — the fuel stops, the strip of stores at the interchange — working the entrance lanes and rows hard enough that a traveler getting off I-5 in a storm finds solid ground instead of a sheet of slush. The lots out here take a different kind of punishment than a quiet residential street: constant tire traffic packing snow into ice faster than it would settle on its own, salt runoff refreezing at the low points near the drains. Clearing them means going back over the same rows more than once in a single storm, staying just ahead of what the traffic is doing to the surface. By the time the morning rush off the interstate picks up, the lot is already holding its ground against it.