Scottish Gritter

January 24, 2020 10:55 am Published by Neil

Today (via Reddit) I learned a gritter in Scotland is what American’s would call a snow/salt truck. A quick internet search revealed something even better, apparently since 2006 they’ve been naming each new gritter truck. Even better still, since 2016 you can now track on a map which gritter is plowing where. The names are nothing less than fantastic with the likes of:

Sir Grits-a-lot
Gritty Gritty Bang Bang
Plougher O’Scotland
Luke Snowalker
Gritty McVittie

Which finally leads me to the article/tweet/announcement that started me on this small journey, the newest to the fleet for 2020….SpreddieMercury.

??Don't stop us now… Here's the first new #gritter name of the year. Introducing #SpreddieMercury, complete with #moustache?? @trafficscotland @transcotland pic.twitter.com/Zmi41aorAA
— Scotland TranServ (@ScotTranserv) January 23, 2020

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