Those big machines that spread crushed rock salt on Scotland’s snowy roads are have wonderfully tongue in cheek names like Gritney Spears, Sir Salter Scott, Salty, Hansel and Grit-all, Coldfinger, and Grittin On Wae It. Their progress can be monitored online at their Gritter Tracker site: .

https://www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-tracker

I read about this on a travel forum and it was too cute not to pass along!

Those Scots are often surprisingly whimsical…. who could forget this ad campaign for the Shetland Islands?