Colorado Department of Transportation (CO)
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Road Condition Codes
- CODE 1: ADVISORY DUE TO WIND
- CODE 2: POOR VISIBILITY - DUST/SNOW/FOG
- CODE 3 DRY
- CODE 4: WET
- CODE 5: RAIN
- CODE 6: SNOW
- CODE 7: SLUSHY
- CODE 8: ICY
- CODE 9: ICY SPOTS
- CODE 10: SNOWPACKED
- CODE 11: SNOWPACKED SPOTS
- CODE 12: SLIDE - ROCK/SNOW/MUD
- CODE 13: CLOSED
- CODE 14: DRIFTING SNOW
- CODE 15: ADEQUATE SNOW TIRES OR CHAINS REQUIRED
- CODE 16: CHAINS ONLY
- CODE 17: CHAINS OR ADEQUATE SNOW TIRES REQUIRED FOR ALL COMM VEHICLES-CHAINS ONLY FOR ALL SINGLE AXLE COMM VEHICLE COMBINATIONS OVER 26,000 GVW
- CODE 18: CHAINS REQUIRED ON ALL COMMERCIAL VEHICLES (4 SETS ON DRIVE AXLES)
Maintenance Sections
- Section 1 - Larimer, Weld, Boulder, Morgan, Washington, Logan, Yuma, Sedgwick, Phillips, Elbert, Lincoln, Kit Carson and Cheyenne Counties
- Section 2 - Garfield, Mesa, Delta, Eagle, Delta, Summit, Pitkin, Lake, Gunnison and Hinsdale Counties
- Section 3 - Montrose, Ouray, San Miguel, San Juan, Dolores, Montezuma, La Plata, and Archuleta Counties
- Section 4 - Park, Teller, El Paso, Fremont, Custer, Pueblo, Huerfano, Las Animas, Crowley, Otero, Kiowa, Bent, Prowers, and Baca Counties
- Section 5 - Broomfield, Denver, Adams, Arapahoe, Douglass and Jefferson Counties
- Section 6 - Moffat, Routt, Jackson, Rio Blanco, and Grand Counties
- Section 7 - Chaffee, Saguache, Mineral, Rio Grande, Alamosa, Conejos, and Costilla Counties
- Section 9 - Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties
Dispatch Centers
- Golden Traffic Operations Center “Golden TOC” serving Sections 1 and 5
- Pueblo Traffic Operations Center “Pueblo TOC” serving Sections 2 and 4
- Eisenhower Johnson Memorial Tunnel Operations Center serving Section 9
- Hanging Lake Tunnel Operations Center “Hanging Lake” serving Sections 2 and 3
Radio TG's
- X-Y format
- X: Maintenance Section (1-9)
- Y: Maintenance Area (King, Lincoln, John, Paul, Mary, George)
- HIGHWAY X is the talkgroup that the dispatch centers monitor. This would normally be the only TG that the dispatch would leave the volume turned up on.
- HIGHWAY XY is the working talkgroup
- HIGHWAY XY TAC are additional channels for those areas and see more use during the summer when they have lots of construction going on.
Radio call signs
- X-Y-Z format
- X: Maintenance Section (1-9)
- Y: Maintenance Area (King, Lincoln, John, Paul, Mary, George)
- Z: Patrol
- For example, 1 George 45 would be a truck working on the Arriba patrol in the George Area of Section 1
- Casual Conversations may have call signs like this, with Z meaning patrol.
- Z-employee first name. For example, "45 Bob".
- Z-Adam, Baker, Charlie, etc. For example "45 Adam".
- Z-1, 2, 3, etc. For Example "45 1".