an exercise in perpetual motion?

Right now, it is zero (0) degrees outside.  There is a front-loader machine/truck picking up piles of snow, although there has not been any new snow, and moving it (where?).  The machine picks up a shovel-full/front end part of snow, and then dumps it into this truck.  What the point of this is, I am unsure.

The streets are already plowed and are fairly clear now (ie. before this).  Weird.