WWJ 950 Detroit shares that last winter Nick Schirripa of the Michigan Department of Transportation, “put some feelers out” on Twitter, asking for help naming Michigan’s snow plows. A year later, all 330 of Michigan’s snow plows have new names.
You can check the plows out in realtime on the M-DOT map. The only one I found out & about this morning was Blizzard T Snowplow, listed as “applying material” way up on the Keweenaw Peninsula. Other names include Alice Scooper & Gordie Plowe, movie references like Darth Blader & Han Snowlo, and even “Control, Salt, Delete” for computer nerds.
Bill got this shot along M-72 along the border of Leelanau & Grand Traverse Counties in northwest lower Michigan back in 2018. See more in his Pics from the Car gallery on Flickr.
shoutout to @hksbks on Twitter for the heads up!
Looks like “Big Bertha” to me.
I listen to WWJ all the time and I heard that interview with Nick Schirripa and some of the names mentioned. What a clever idea, though I don’t remember hearing or reading about a call for suggestions. I’d have put my thinking cap on. My favorites were the same as the ones you mentioned, my favorite being “Control, Salt, Delete”.
Check out Scotland’s plow names! Gritty Gritty Bang Bang & Gritney Spears are pretty great (they call the sanding trucks “gritters”). I think my fave is “Spready Mercury” though
Thanks for the link – I wonder if MDOT got the idea from Scotland’s gritters? They had a lot of good ones and my favorites were “Meltin’ John” and “Spready Mercury” – so clever.