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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?  I'm 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 But here it is... the finalists. Now you get to take a hand in deciding what name wins!  There wer...

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. Gritters plough their routes from Glasgow to Dumfries and through to Ayr and Stranraer, and giving th...

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’, ‘Sir Salter Scott’, ‘Buzz Iceclear’ and newest addition ‘Yes Sir, Ice can Boogie’. ...