Johnson and Pettis County residents may see delays on roads being plowed this winter due to operator shortage statewide.  Becky Allmeroth, chief safety and operations officer for the Missouri Department of Transportation, said that being short operators is nothing new to Missouri, but it is more extreme this year.  “We are dealing with just extremely high turnover and we have been for the last five years, which our turnover has been about 600 employees per year, average about 50 per month,” Allmeroth said. “This year, we’re going on seven straight months where we’ve lost 70 employees per month and then...