Name A Snowplow! Voting is Now Live for Public to Pick Snowplow Names

Dec 29, 2023 | Press Release

SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) launched their first ever snowplow naming contest and New Mexicans did not disappoint! We received almost 1,600 names!

It was difficult, but NMDOT Communication staff narrowed the entries down to 50 names from the amazing submissions. NOW it is time for the public to vote on their favorites! Voting is open and will continue through Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024 at noon! To vote, visit the NMDOT website at https://www.dot.nm.gov/ and click “Name a NMDOT Snowplow” to pick your favorite or visit www.dot.nm.gov/name-a-plow/.  You can vote up to 6 times!

We know that New Mexicans are some of the most creative, funny, and witty people on the planet, but the top names are even better than we could have imagined!

We depend on our fleet to serve our communities and make the roads safer for the traveling public, we are excited to give our trucks some awesome names!Once voting is wrapped up, the top twelve names with the most votes will be announced, assigned to a snowplow, and winners will receive bragging rights for a lifetime!

Alice Scooper No Snow for You!
Baby Snowda Oh, Snow You Didn’t!
Better Call Salt Optimus Plow
Billy the Skid Orange Crush
Bisc-Snow-Chito Plowasaurous Rex!!
Brr-ito Point of Snow Return
Chilly Relleno Salter White
Clear-o-Pathra Salty Dog
Ctrl-Salt-Delete Scoop Dog
Darth Blader Scoopy Doo
D-Icer-Topes Sleetwood Mac
EE, I Snow, huh? Slush Puppie
Fast and Flurryious Sno Rida
Full Metal Plow Snow Big Deal
Georgia Sno’Keeffe Snow No Mercy
Han Snowlo Snow Way, José
Heisenbrrrrg Snow-Be-Gone-Kenobi
Ice Ice Baby Snowminator
Ka-Plow! Snowplowpilla
La Snowrona Snowtorious B.I.G
Melton John Snowzobra
More Plowbell That’s All Slick
Mr. Plow The Big LePlowski
Mr. Snow It All Walter Whiteout
No Biz Like Snow Biz Yeti or Not…

We depend on our fleet to serve our communities and make the roads safer for the traveling public, we are excited to give our trucks some awesome names!

Once voting is wrapped up, the top twelve names with the most votes will be announced, assigned to a snowplow, and winners will receive bragging rights for a lifetime!