Snow plow naming contest now underway in New Mexico

SANTA FE, N.M. — Can you come up with a snow plow name as good as Sleetwood Mac or Mr. Snow it All? You can now find out.

It’s snow joke – the New Mexico Department of Transportation’s “Name a Snowplow Contest” is underway. Now through Friday, Dec. 20, at noon, NMDOT is accepting creative, winter-themed or New Mexico-inspired names for snow plows.

After submissions close, NMDOT will select the “most creative and inspiring names” and give the public a chance to vote on their favorites. Then, the top 12 names will be assigned to snow plows across the state.

Here are the rules:

• Each person can submit one name only
• Names are limited to 20 characters (including letters and spaces)
• No vulgar, profane, or inappropriate language
• Politically inspired names, including plays on politicians’ names or slogans, will not be considered.
• Previously selected snowplow names from 2024 are ineligible for 2025

These were the winning names last year:

District 1 (Silver City, T or C, Las Cruces)

• Sleetwood Mac
• Snowplowpilla

District 2 (Roswell, Alamogordo, Carlsbad, Ruidoso)

• Billy the Skid
• That’s All Slick

District 3 (Albuquerque, Los Lunas)

• Better Call Salt
• Darth Blader

District 4 (Tucumcari, Raton, Clayton)

• EE, I Snow, huh?
• Walter Whiteout

District 5 (Santa Fe, Farmington, Taos)

• Snowzobra
• Bisc-Snow-Chito

District 6 (Gallup, Grants)

• Ctrl-Salt Delete
• Mr. Snow it All