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The Scottish practice of naming snow-clearing machines has also been adopted across the Atlantic

American woman discovers Scotland's hilarious gritter names - and can't get enough of Gritney Spears Scotland's inventive pun-filled names for our fleet of gritters appear to have garnered attention from across the pond. Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or...

You can name a Minnesota snowplow The kooky contest, which started in Scotland, is gaining traction here.  January 1, 2021 — 8:26am Text size Copy shortlink: The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is having a contest to name our snowplows. They're taking submissions until Jan. 22 at dot.state.mn.us/nameasnowplow, with the winners announced in February. Sounds fun! But you may have a few questions about how this came about. I did. And here's what I discovered: Q: Why is Minnesota doing this? A: Because of Twitter, and ...

'This can't be real': Scotland's snowfleet in international spotlight as gritters go viral for 'incredible' names Scotland has been thrust into the international spotlight - for its fleet of gritters. People across the world have taken notice of our "incredible" snowfleet, and the hilarious names that go with them. Names range from Gritty Gritty Bang Bang to Yes Sir Ice Can Boogie, to Chilly Connolly and Fred - and some people cannot believe the names are real. A Twitter user in California shared an image of our impressive fleet, and her tweet has so far reached almost 50,000 retweets...