Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Winter road crews save your life and slowly kill your car. The same salt that keeps a mountain pass open will chew into brake ...

ELMIRA HEIGHTS, N.Y. (WETM) — When it snows, salt gets put down on the roads to melt the ice. Mechanics said if people don’t keep up with their cars during the winter months, it could cost them ...

Your car hates winter. Not because of the cold, the snow, the traffic or the constant digging and shoveling; that’s why you hate winter. No, your car hates winter because of all that damn road salt ...

Rust is the silent enemy of every car. It starts small, often invisible, and grows slowly until it compromises the structural ...

When snow starts to fall in Idaho Falls, the city’s Street Division has already been active for hours, laying down salt brine. The city uses a 50-50, sodium chloride/sand mixture on select city roads ...

I have driven the streets in Chittenden County through a dozen-plus winters but something has changed that has got my attention. I have noticed last winter that getting the car cleaned of salt at the ...

Winter weather brings one of the trucking industry’s greatest simultaneous friends and foes: road salt. Salt prevents and melts ice, making road surfaces safer for travel, but it also significantly ...

At first glance, a used truck from the Midwest or Northeast can look like a steal. The paint shines, the engine sounds strong, the interior smells clean, and the price feels almost too good to be true ...

It's not unusual to find rust around salt water, but now the pairing might actually be useful. Researchers at Caltech and Northwestern University have found that electricity can be produced when salt ...