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Voting in the Name that Minnesota snowplow underway

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Randy Thoms
Jan 24, 2024 | 10:54 AM


Voting in the Name that Minnesota snowplow underway

Duck, Duck the Orange Truck earned its name in the 2021 Name the Snowplow contest in Minnesota. Photo courtesy MnDot

The Minnesota Department of Transportation is back with its annual ‘Name a Snowplow’ contest.

MnDOT received over 8,000 suggestions in a previous call for possible names.

Fifty finalists have been selected for a public vote.

The top eight vote-getters will be assigned to plows across the state.

Some of the names include a play on celebrity names like Alice Scooper, Taylor Drift and Dolly Plowton.

Others have a link to movies such as Clark W. Blizzwald (National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation), Fast and Flurrious and Barbie’s Dream Plow.

There are also a few song titles to consider such as A Plow Named Sue, Scrape, Rattle and Roll, and Sweet Child O’Brine.

This is the fourth year for the contest, with 24 plow trucks previously named.

Previous selections have included Plow Bunyan, Betty Whiteout, Yer a Blizzard, Harry and Duck, Duck Orange Truck.

Voting ends this Sunday.

Click here for a direct link to vote.

Here are the 50 finalists. 

    1. A Little Salty
    2. A Plow Named Sue
    3. Aaron Brrrr, Sir
    4. Alice Scooper
    5. Barbie’s Dream Plow
    6. Beauty and the Blade
    7. Because Ice Said Snow!
    8. Below Zero Hero
    9. Best in Snow
    10. Beyonsleigh
    11. Blizzard Buster
    12. Blizzard Wizard
    13. Can’t Snow Me Down
    14. Clark W. Blizzwald
    15. Dashing thru the snow
    16. Dolly Plowton
    17. Don’t Flurry, Be Happy
    18. Everyday I’m Shovelin’
    19. Fast and Flurrious
    20. Flake Superior
    21. Flake it off
    22. Frosty the Snowplow
    23. Highway Hercules
    24. I Came, I Thaw, I Conquered
    25. Just Scraping By
    26. Lady Slippery
    27. Land of 10,000 snows
    28. L’Plow du Nord
    29. Make Snowbegone
    30. Minnesnowta N’ice
    31. Miracle on Ice
    32. Oh, For Sleet’s Sake
    33. Oh Snow You Didn’t!
    34. Orange you glad to see me?
    35. Plower Power
    36. Scrape, Rattle and Roll
    37. Shiver Me Blizzards
    38. SKOL Plow
    39. Snowmageddon
    40. SnowMNator
    41. Snow White and the 7 drifts
    42. Star of the North
    43. Storm Rider
    44. Sweet Child O’ Brine
    45. Taylor Drift
    46. The Great MN Plow-together
    47. Waipahinte (Dakota word for “snowplow”)
    48. Who let the plows out?
    49. You’re Killin’ Me Squalls