FROSTBURG — Frostburg’s new snow-moving truck was just a tad late to get into Tuesday night’s plow party, but was to be ready late Wednesday in the event a second storm wave struck the Mountain City.

“We got the new truck in town at 10 a.m.,” Street Department Supervisor Mike Troutman said Wednesday at midday. “I’m headed to get the tags for it now and the stickers from Kenney Signs and it will be ready to plow.”

The new $112,000 plow truck will join a fleet of three others that were hard at work beginning 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and still roaming Frostburg’s streets at noon Wednesday. “We should be wrapping up this session about 3 p.m.,” Troutman said.

Troutman said the consistency of this snow was most unusual.

“It was really, really heavy and rolled off the ends of the plows in hunks as big as Volkswagen bugs,” he said. “There isn’t much we can do about where the snow goes after we plow it. The type of snow has a lot to say about where it ends up.”

Troutman said he has had more than the usual number of complaints about snow being plowed into driveways.

As is usually the case with a snow of substance, Troutman dispatched plow trucks Tuesday to the East End, Center City and the West End. “We keep the same guys on the same routes from snow to snow,” he said.

City Administrator John Kirby said the municipality’s plowing arsenal includes the new truck, a 2005 truck in what he called good shape and a 2001 truck in what he called reasonably good shape.

“In addition, we have an older backup truck if needed,” Kirby said.

Troutman said that on Tuesday and Wednesday the trucks were accompanied by a Bobcat and a loader equipped with plows. “Those usually work on alleys and parking lots,” he said.

Until March, Frostburg will have two men on an 11 p.m.-to-7 a.m. shift to deal with light plowing in the wee hours. “They will call in backup if a snow gets bad,” Troutman said.

As Troutman spoke Wednesday, the temperature was 40 degrees. “It’s too warm for anything to freeze right now, but the forecast for tonight is another inch or so of snow and wind chills of minus 8. Rock salt doesn’t even work when it gets that cold,” he said.

Contact Michael A. Sawyers at msawyers@times-news.com.