This is a link to Traffic Scotland’s Trunk Road Gritter Tracker, an online map that provides real-time tracking of its snow removal and gritting trucks, all of which have been cleverly named. Some of my favorites include ‘Lord Coldemort & You’re A Blizzard Harry’, ‘The Blizzard Of Oz’, ‘Spready Mercury’, ‘I Want To Break Freeze’, ‘Sled Zepplin’, ‘Gritallica’, ‘Buzz Iceclear’, ‘License To Chill’, and ‘For Your Ice Only’. Obviously, if the goal of this whole project was to get someone who’s never even visited Scotland to watch their gritter trucks travel around the map for the better part of an hour, mission accomplished.
Thanks to my buddy Kevin, who agrees a clever nickname is half the battle.