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I read a dozen of these names to a friend just now and she said, "This is genius! They must have let the snowplow crews name their own plows. After all, who is

I read a dozen of these names to a friend just now and she said, "This is genius! They must have let the snowplow crews name their own plows. After all, who is going to take better care of their machine, the crew who drives Snowplow 437 or the crew who drives Clearopathra?" This made me curious: who did come up with these names? Was it top down from the DOT? Or did they let the crews name their plows?

Symbiote 5y ago
On the other side of the Atlantic: > The story of these hilarious gritter names goes back to 2006 when Transport for Scotland decided to run a competition in Scottish primary schools. Pupils were tasked with inventing the best possible names for a fleet of gritters. (Gritter = salt/grit spreader, more common than an actual plough in Britain, although Scotland presumably needs some of each.) I don't know if Scotland was first with the idea. Big vehicles have been named for centuries, officially and unofficially. (Ships, trains, planes etc.)