A series of gritters with hilarious names are helping to keep Tayside and Fife’s roads clear as temperatures drop.
Transport bosses have deployed a fleet of machines on trunk roads across the country as a spell of cooler weather sweeps across the region.
The gritters will be spreading salt on major roads including the A90, M90 and A9 throughout the coming months in an attempt to keep commuters on the move.
And the machines have been given some brilliant and punny names.
List of funny gritter names in Tayside and Fife
Among the gritters working across the region are:
- Hansel and Grit-all – Perth and Kinross
- Icetalavista Baby – Perth and Kinross
- Veruca Salt – Perth and Kinross
- Ready Salted – Perth and Kinross
- Always be Grit-full – Fife
- The Basil Salty – Fife
- Gritty Gritty Bang Bang – Fife
- Brine Freeeeze – Fife
- The Incredible Ice Bear – Fife
- Walter the Salter – Fife
- Sprinkles – Dundee
- Mrs McGritter – Dundee
- The Gritmas Chronicles – Dundee
Other hilarious names from across Scotland include You’re a Blizzard Harry, Gonnae Snow Dae That, Taylor Drift and I Want to Break Freeze.
Amey and Bear Scotland operate the winter vehicles on behalf of Transport Scotland across the region’s trunk roads.
The naming of gritters started in 2006 when schoolchildren were asked to come up with funny names.
However, this has opened up to the wider public in recent years.
A live map of gritters across the country is available on the Traffic Scotland website.
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