It really isn't hard. But you get these dolts that are just day-workers from the local construction co's that have no idea how to plow. You get 2 pickups coming into the circle and the first one goes a bit left to take a big bite. The second one FOLLOWS EXACTLY IN HIS PATH and clears NO snow. If he put the mound of snow on the LEFT half of his blade, all would be fine.
We got better clearing on Sunday b/c the pickup-truck guys couldn't move that stuff. Experienced driver spent a bit of time clearing hte whole thing. Again, the only problem was the moron that left their car out in the street. WTF??? Shoulda buried him in. Forget the ticket. Get buried instead.
Well, I am a full time Heavy equipment operator and a couple of the larger cities in western mass contract us to plow public streets, Springfield and another. We use front end loaders with 12-14' plows on them and can move a lot of snow fast. If you have some moron parked in the road he is probably parked on the "upwind" side of his driveway to keep the snow banks from the plow from douching his driveway. A lot of people will use their trash barrels or basketball hoops, lol, I love those dolts.
The bucketloader being an articulating machine with center steering, we can actually turn around the car tight and bury the aholes driveway worse than if the car wasn't there at all. If the problem continues after that we do have the authority from the police departments to call the towing company they use and have them towed as there parking bans in effect. Most people are legit and move their cars and or stuff so the street can be plowed as wide as possible, then you have the arrogant morons.
As for the trash cans and basketball hoops? They get "nudged" into the snowbanks gently.
In 2015 one guy was so mad at the snowbanks from repeated blizzards he blocked the road in front of his house with his pickup, got out and started to climb up to the cab of my loader with a steel pipe saying he was gonna f me up!, all the while his wife screaming at him to stop being a jerk. I warned him twice, drew my S&W M+P Shield 9mm with crimson trace and this guy fell off the loader and ran like the little bitch he was inside his house leaving his truck in the middle of the road.
Long story short, cops showed up, checked my permit, checked my story that the wife verified "and the neighbor". I could have filed charges for aggravated assault but did not cause his punk ass was embarrassed enough in front of his wife and kids.
And his little wussy truck got towed to boot!