The Iowa Department of Transportation is looking to hire hundreds of snow plow drivers at a pay rate of $17.45 an hour.

The agency’s website lists openings across the state in cities that include Davenport, Burlington, Maquoketa, and Muscatine.

Anyone interested in applying or learning all the requirements

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The online job description says drivers will “operate maintenance and snow/ice removal equipment, such as end loaders, single or tandem axle dump trucks that may be equipped with tailgate or hopper spreaders, straight blades or V-plows, snowplow wing blades and underside ice blades.”

Drivers must have a valid class A or B commercial driver’s license (or commercial learner’s permit) or, if a driver has a commercial instruction permit, they will be required to get a class A or B CDL within 30 days of being hired.