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The city also announced with results of DPW's snowplow naming contest.

Mr. Plow Over in Scotland, where they call their winter trucks ‘winter gritters’ (which I just love), they’ve just announced the name of their latest addition, Charles RennIce MackinSlush, after a Glaswegian artist and architect. Others will follow, selected from 1,200 entries submitted by the public. MackinSlush will join his plowmates, Yes Sir, Ice Can Boogie; Buzz IceClear; and IRN-BRU®’s Grits You Thru. These are all definitely a step up from the famous Boaty McBoatface, the title ...

It's not enough to create names in an online poll, now MnDOT must paint the names all over the eight trucks clearing the roads across the state.

(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Transportation has opened voting to name a snowplow in each of its eight ...

Minnesota Department of Transportation (KNSI) – The Minnesota Department of Transportation has opened voting to name a snowplow in each of its eight districts. The call for names came out in December. The agency says they received 24,000 suggestions and have narrowed it down to 50. There are references to movies – especially “Star Wars” with C-3PSnow, Darth Blader, Snowbi Wan Kenobi, and Luke Snowwalker. “Toy Story” shows up on the list with Buzz Iceclear and a Johnny Depp favorite ...

Help MNDOT Name a Snowplow- Voting Now Open So, this has been going on for a minute.  Name a snow plow!  MNDOT had offered up this contest a few weeks ago.  They received over 24,000 name ideas.  Holy buckets!  They went through those names and picked out the top 50.  I wonder who was tasked with that job.  UGH!  How do you choose?  Im sure there were some that were automatically bounced.  But with that many, that would be difficult to whittle it down to just 50 finalists. ThinkStock ...

It’s finally time -- voting is now open in MnDOT's 'Name a Snowplow Contest.'

When will your area be gritted and by what hilariously named gritter?

gritters Charles RennIce MackinSlush THERE are many modern tributes to Charles Rennie Mackintosh – but this is maybe one of the most unique. An appeal to name the 50-strong fleet of gritters covering 400 miles of Scotland’s trunk roads received more than 1200 online entries. And the first of the successful nominations are revealed today. Charles RennIce MackinSlush is the first of the new gritter names to be announced – and who knows what its namesake would make of the choice. G...

Irn Bru gritter A NEW gritter for Scotland’s roads will be named after Irn Bru - after similarities were spotted between the soft drink’s packaging and the vehicles’ paintwork. Fans of Scotland’s national drink can vote for one of four options proposed by soft drinks company AG Barr - either ‘Grits you through’, IRN-BRRRRRU’, ‘Made in Scotland from Gritters’ and ‘Bru Grit’. The new gritter will join a fleet of comedically named vehicles including ‘Spready Mercury�...