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

Simpsons fans are disappointed in one obvious choice that was not included.

plowking

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Ugh…do I even want to check and see…?

ETA: I can’t find a photo that shows the top of the van

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I concur; that Thunderbird 2 is F.A.B.!

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Hard to tell but it doesn’t look like it…

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

(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 :slight_smile:

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

One would hope that being in the UK they’d go with the Union Jack, owing to its very similar layout.

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