I live in an apartment, and don’t have a car or a parking space. If I did, the apartment would plow it.
Usually I use a tractor with a dozer blade. Last weekend I had to hire a backhoe to take out the wall of compacted snow, about 5 by 10 by 20 feet, at the bottom by the road. But the backhoe couldn’t get up the driveway itself, so the tractor did that.
Today my tractor got stuck just outside the barn, all four wheels spinning, and no amount of fighting with boards and hydraulics would get it out. Maybe tomorrow the hired backhoe will come again…
If it snowed sufficiently here to block the driveway, I think we could assume that the end of the world was nigh.
After paying someone to plow for many years, I finally bought a really great snow blower last year. One of the best decisions I ever made.
Wrong thread, sorry.
For people who annually contract someone to plow their driveway, would you mind sharing how much you pay? and how often would you expect them to do it in an average winter? And how long is your driveway?
I have a snowblower, though for light snow I’ll just use a shovel.
My own plow truck for me. Really the only solution at 11.2 in the Rockies. I also have a small diesel loader. But rarely use it for snow.
Not much snow this year. Have only plowed a few times. I sort of look at as a trade off against mowing grass. That, I don’t have to do.
Other than that, my Wife and I both drive 4x4s. 2 years ago we had a total accumulation of 30 measured feet of snow. Tire choice is a big subject around here.
I voted for “plow on my tractor”, but I actually have a Honda ATV that I have put a snow plow on and it works great. Since the snow is dry and powdery here in the Rockies I can get away with using an ATV to plow the driveway. If I lived somewhere where the snow is wet and heavy it might be a different story. In the Spring I take the plow off and use the ATV for general yardwork around my property until the first heavy snow sometime in November. This arrangement has worked out well so far… 
I voted for ‘I don’t do anything - I just drive over it!’, but that’s not strictly accurate. See, I don’t have chains for the Prius, so it’s useless in snow. Slippage is detected, and the power to that wheel shuts down. Slippage to the other drive wheel is detected, and that one shuts down. Stop on the accelerator pedal, and all is quiet.
So I hop into the Jeep, which is parked just off the street. With 4WD, there’s no need to shovel anything. But there’s no driveway where I park it.
Our driveway is a mess. It’s almost a quarter mile long and full of snow. We can’t even park near the house.
I had the farmer down the street plow it a few days ago, but it’s 2 feet deep again. Guess I need it plowed again. The problem is that it is a gravel driveway wit deep ruts, and a lot of gravel gets thrown when he plows it. 
I shovel it myself. The driveway is short, but is wide. But I really only have to shovel one car length, as there are two canopies we park under. The canopies fill up with snow and sag mightily, so i have to bump off the snow from those. Which fills up the open lane in the drive with snow. So there is a lot of snow to shovel. The one open lane is almost 2/3 filled with a 5foot berm of snow.
Then there is the lane down the side of the house where I also push snow so I can reach the deck and steps which I also shovel out. Then down the steps to the lower deck and entry door. WHich also requires some snow pushing around, but that gets the prevailing winds so it gets blown around a lot, and I might have a clear spot infront of the door but then a 2 ft drift just beyond it.
If you get out there right away, the snow is usually light enough to push around.
Our driveway is something over 100’, judging by how much garden hose I need to drag down it to water the farthest garden…
Up until yesterday, we cleared it ourselves with shovels. It’s great fun when we get over a foot of snow. But yesterday, a neighbor with a snowblower and his nephew came by and offered to clear it for $60. We gladly accepted. They were done in 45 minutes or so, including shoveling our porch. We asked them to come by whenever we get more than a few inches.
It doesn’t snow like this every year, and I’m trying to figure if it makes more sense to buy and maintain our own snowblower, or just pay these guys when we need 'em. To get the size blower recommended for our drive, we’ll probably spend over $600. That’s 10 clearings by the neighbor. Plus we don’t have to store it, service it, fuel it, or get cold and wet using it. On the other hand, if we had our own, we could also clear an area in the back yard for the dogs, who are now limited to a small pee patch that I dig out myself.
Decisions, decisions. But we’re in our mid-50s - we deserve to have someone else do our dirty work! 
I’ve had my own blower since I turned 50 and decided that I shouldn’t shovel any more. It rocks and I wish I had done it years earlier. Winter time is my sweet revenge, both my neighbors have much better lawnmowers than I but my blower puts theirs to shame.
It doesn’t snow much here in Southern England, and my driveway is quite short (although inclined enough to make it a real problem when it’s icy). I clear it with a shovel and broom when/if necessary and salt+grit it by hand. I don’t think there even are any paid-for services of this type here (except ad-hoc ones provided by opportunistic local kids).
For the volume & longevity we usually get (2-4" all melted in 2-3 days), I just drive over it. Having only 4WD cars helps.
If it’s heavier snow I’ll usually pay somebody to shovel / plow it. The neighbor kids are usually up for some pocket money. If not, there are the ubiquitous guys-in-pickups-with-plows cruising for a quick $20.
I have done it myself, but it’s 75+ feet long, curved & sloping, so shoveling by hand takes awhile. I can’t justify owning a blower I’d use once every other year.
Actually you left out one option which you may not have heard of if you’re not from Michigan, The Yooper Scooper!
They may call the thing in that link a Yooper Scooper, but it’s not. Looks way too small.
This is a better picture of a Yooper Scooper, along with a Yooper.
Yah, I stand corrected, eh?
I appreciate your fancy Yoop tool guys, but I consider that shovelling. Even tho it’s scooping
notfrommensa: Mine costs $240 for the season, November to April. My driveway is 80ft. They come automatically when it snows 2" or more. There’s really no way to predict how much they’ll come. This year they’ve come probably 6 times so far.