Minnesota crowdsourced new snow plow names and they're as silly as you'd expect

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BTW it’s from last February. Those are the 2021-2022 winners.

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February 3, 2022 A snowplow in southwestern Minnesota will soon be named “Betty Whiteout.” The moniker is a nod to the actress and comedian Betty White, who died in December at age 99. It received the most votes during the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s second “Name a Snowplow” contest, in which the agency sought clever names for eight of its large orange trucks it sends out to clear snow and ice from the roads. After plowing through the votes, “Betty Whitetout” cruised to vict…

(That’s ^ quoted from a StarTribune article—Internet Archive)

Hopefully there will be a new contest for the 2022-2023 season—clearly there are plenty of great options for naming snowplows. And according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s website, MnDOT has approximately 800 snowplows, to cover 12,000 miles (30,585+ lane miles)!

Also, did you know that the snowplows can work year-round? Here’s mention of one doing PR work at the Mower County Fair in Austin, MN, this past summer

http://www.dot.state.mn.us/news/2022/08/05-d6-mower-county-fair.html