Caryville road crew catches break before next winter storm

It was a long weekend of pushing snow, laying down salt-gravel for Caryville’s five-man road crew

TOP PHOTO: Left to right are Richard Lawson, Michael Baird, David Leach, David Muse and Randal Perkins with the Caryville Street and Sanitation Department.

CARYVILLE, TN (WLAF)- “The snow came in bands. We’d get the roads cleaned off, and here’d come another round of snow,” said David Muse, Street and Sanitation Director for the Town of Caryville. Muse and his team do double duty handling sanitation and street maintenance.

The crew called it a day Saturday at dark and went right back to it well before sun up on Sunday. “We ran from 6am until 7pm Sunday, and finally cleared all the streets, 72 miles of them. That includes taking care of the streets at Exit 141,” said Muse.

“That’s a whole different atmosphere at the 141. They can get some serious winter weather sometimes compared to here in town,” said Randal Perkins, a member of the Caryville Street and Sanitation Department.

Muse, a 25-year veteran with the Town, explains that he and his men go as long as they can when clearing the snow and ice. “This go-round, we spread 25 tons of the salt-gravel mix. Caryville’s snow force includes three F 550s and two F 250s with blades on three of them,” said Muse. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED-01/15/2025-6AM-PHOTOS COURTESY OF WLAF’S CHARLIE HUTSON)