Here is Michigan Department of Transportation's snowplow roster

CBS News Detroit Digital Brief for Nov. 27, 2023

(CBS DETROIT) - The Michigan Department of Transportation on Monday presented its snowplow roster for this season.

The names of the trucks can be found on the MiDrive website, which shows what trucks are active. The trucks are available through early spring.

In the Metro Region, which covers Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties, MDOT has now included the name "Boreas" on the roster.

2023 MDOT snowplow roster

Blue Water Bridge 

  • Blue Water Express
  • Huron Hero 
  • Ol' Blue 
  • Salt Shaker
  • Sarnia Scooper

Bay Region 

  • Beast 
  • Big Bertha 
  • Blade of Glory
  • Blaze 
  • Blizzard Boss 
  • Bumming In da Thumb
  • Chippy 
  • Coyote 
  • Dreams of Summer
  • Detroit Breakdown 
  • Frankenmuth Chicken 
  • Gordie Plow 
  • Hannah's Hero 
  • Herbert H. Plow  
  • Ice Princess 
  • Ice to Meet You 
  • I'd Rather Be at the Beach 
  • Large Marge 
  • Ol' Seven Fingers 
  • Pillsbury Plowboy 
  • Plower Power 
  • Polar Patroller 
  • Road Warrior 
  • Rock Salt Renegade
  • Rolling Thunder 
  • Salt Salt Baby 
  • Saltosaurus Rex 
  • Slushy 
  • Snow Force 1 
  • Snow Mater 
  • Snowdown Please, I'm Plowing 
  • Snowflake 
  • Sparkles 
  • Spirit of Saginaw  
  • Storm Slayer 
  • The Abominable Snowplow 
  • The Plowers That Be
  • White Out 
  • Will B. Snoday 
  • Winslow 

Grand Region 

  • Aaron Brr, Sir 
  • Applesauce 
  • Arctic Fox 
  • Auntie Arctica  
  • Baby Snowda 
  • Cheerio, Snow!  
  • Clearing Present Danger        
  • Clementine 
  • Derek Sleeter 
  • Don't Flurry Be Happy
  • Driftcatcher 
  • Fast and Flurryous  
  • Flake Michigan 
  • Frost Responder 
  • Gladiator of the Great Lakes 
  • Glitter Gator 
  • Grind Line 
  • Heikki Lunta
  • Iceman  
  • Icicle 
  • Jon Bon Snowi 
  • King of Winter  
  • Lumi  
  • Marshmallow 
  • Mitten Muscle 
  • Mr. Salty Pants 
  • Newaygo River Roadster 
  • Northstar 
  • Olaf
  • Plowderpuff  
  • Plownelope
  • Princess Sleighia
  • Pushy McSnow 
  • Rupert Slushington IV 
  • Scooper McGavin 
  • Sleetwood Mac 
  • Snow Rapids  
  • Snow Wolf 
  • Snows Buddies Business 
  • Sparky 
  • The Big LePlowski 
  • The Great and Plowerful Oz 
  • The Scrape Gatsby 
  • Thunder Blade

Metro Region 

  • Blizzard Wizard
  • Boreas 
  • Bringin' Pavement Back 
  • Drift Master
  •  Droppin' Salt Like It's Hot     
  • Ice Ice Baby 
  • Kid Rock Salt 
  • Mr. Snow Miser 
  • PlowMaster 
  • Salt Life 
  • Sleety Pie 
  • Snow Warrior 
  • SnowJoe 
  • Trail Blazer

North Region 

  • Alice Scooper 
  • Bluster Buster 
  • Captain Banks 
  • Chill Out 
  • Drift Buster 
  • Everyday I am Shoveling
  • Frostin Powers 
  • Han Snow-Lo 
  • Ice Buster 
  • Old Salty 
  • Optimus Plow 
  • Orange Blazer 
  • Orange Slush 
  • Plowzilla 
  • Rusty McSaltmeister 
  • S'no Problem 
  • Salty Dogg 
  • Scoop Dogg 
  • Sno-no-mo 
  • Snow Slayer 
  • Snowbegone Kenobi 
  • The Beast 

Superior Region

  • Biboon Ogichidaa 
  • Big Mac 
  • Blizzard T Snowplow 
  • Catch My Drift 
  • Close Shave 
  • Coldfoot 
  • Da Rumbler 
  • Dr. Plow Good 
  • Drift Crusher 
  • Frostbite 
  • Get Into Scrape  
  • Gichigami
  • Have Snow Will Plow 
  • I Think I Can 
  • Ice Force One 
  • Ice Sleigher 
  • King of the North
  • Laker Scraper 
  • Mighty Mac 
  • Mighty Yooper 
  • Mr. Sandman 
  • Nick Flurry 
  • Orange Crush 
  • Orange Yooper Storm Trooper 
  • Plow Avenger 
  • Plowdy Duty 
  • Polar Express 
  • Shock and Thaw 
  • Sisu 
  • Snobank Maker
  • Snomac 
  • Snowba Fett 
  • Sparky McChatter 
  • Superior Snowbuster
  • UP Winter Force 
  • Whitefish Plowder 
  • Winter Fresh 
  • Yooper Scooper 

Southwest Region 

  • Almost Summer 
  • Aunt Edna
  • Barry Salt-and-Sanders 
  • Beach Buggy 
  • Betty Whiteout 
  • BettyLou Blizzard 
  • Big Kahuna 
  • Big Poppa 
  • Blade Runner 
  • Blades of Steel 
  • Bliz Wiz 
  • Blizzard Buster 
  • Buffy 
  • Buzz Iceclear
  • Cheese Puff 
  • Chill Bill 
  • Cousin Eddie
  • Ctrl Salt Delete 
  • Darth Blader 
  • Detroit SnoWings
  • Elf 
  • Eirwen
  • Frosted Flake 
  • Frosty 
  • Git Snow Git 
  • Hamilton
  • Haunani
  • Hulk 
  • Ice Dragon
  • It's Snow Problem 
  • Kalamazoo Canoe 
  • K-zoo 
  • Lady Lake Effect 
  • Lake Effect Collect
  • Lead Dog 
  • Let It Snow 
  • Licensed to Chill 
  • Lil Snow Peep 
  • Love Mi Plow 
  • Lumber Jack 
  • Machine Plow Kelly 
  • Move It Move It 
  • Moxie 
  • Mr. Plow 
  • Neve
  • Pavement Liberator 
  • Plowabunga 
  • Plowasaurus Rex 
  • Plower Ranger 
  • Plowriffic 
  • Plowthagorean Theorem 
  • Ralphie
  • Ramrod the Destroyer 
  • Rocky Salterton 
  • Salt Whitman 
  • Salt-N-Peppa 
  • Salty Attitude 
  • Seymour Snow 
  • Sir Plows-A-Lot 
  • Sir Salts-A-Lot 
  • Slush Puppy
  • Sneeuwstorm 
  • Snow Can Do 
  • Snow Captain 
  • Snow Digitty 
  • Snow Hunter 
  • Snow It All 
  • Snow Place Like Home
  • Snow Shall Not Pass
  • Snow Shifter 
  • Snowbacca 
  • Snowboni 
  • Snowcrusher 
  • Snowfire 
  • Snowmaggedon
  • Sodium Slinger
  • Steve Icerman 
  • The Kraken 
  • Tiger 
  • William Scrape-speare
  • Winter Commander 
  • Winter Express 
  • Winter Snowdier
  • Wren
  • Yukio 
  • Yukon Cornelius
  • Zhagagwneget

University Region

  • Austin Plowers 
  • Baby It's Cold Outside 
  • Below Zero Hero 
  • Biichi-biboon
  • Borealis 
  • Bumble 
  • Burley Bear 
  • Buttercup
  • Chilly Dog 
  • Clearopathtra 
  • Dewey Defroster
  • Dolly Plowton 
  • Dottie 
  • Eagle Eye 
  • Ebenezer Scoop 
  • Edgar Allan Snow 
  • Fluffy 
  • Freezy 
  • Frostbitten Mitten 
  • Frosty the Snowplow 
  • Good Roads Earle 
  • Happy 
  • Herbie 
  • Hercules 
  • Hipplowpotomus 
  • Ice Cube 
  • Kaplowie 
  • Lake Scooperior 
  • Lightning McClean 
  • Little Mack 
  • Lola 
  • Marco Plowo 
  • Maximus 
  • Meatball 
  • Melton John
  • Melty the Snowplow 
  • Michigamme
  • Mishigami 
  • Mission Implowsible 
  • Moose 
  • Mr. Blade 
  • NaviGator
  • Nieve
  • Ol' Gus 
  • Patience 
  • Pebbles 
  • Pegasus 
  • Peppermint 
  • Peppy Le Plow 
  • Remy 
  • Road Runner 
  • Roxy 
  • Safety Got Back
  • Saltimus Brine 
  • Saltnado 
  • Salty Sven 
  • Saul T. Streets 
  • Scooter 
  • Señor Flurry 
  • Snow Worries 
  • Snowball 
  • Snowprah Winfrey 
  • Snowy Robinson 
  • Spirit of Michigan 
  • Squall Bunyan 
  • Still Shorts Weather 
  • Stormbreaker 
  • Subzero 
  • Sunny 
  • Sunshine 
  • ThawSome 
  • Thunderhawk 
  • Tiny 
  • Truck Norris 
  • Walter 
  • Weird Plow Yankovic 
  • Whiteout Wrangler 
  • Wolverine Whiteout 
  • Yeti 
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