{"id":412924,"date":"2022-12-05T02:11:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T02:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=412924"},"modified":"2022-12-05T02:22:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T02:22:05","slug":"snowguaro-department-of-transportation-announces-name-a-snowplow-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/snowguaro-department-of-transportation-announces-name-a-snowplow-contest-winners","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Snowguaro&#8217;: Department of Transportation announces Name-A-Snowplow contest winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three snowplow trucks officially have new names after the Arizona Department of Transportation announced the winning monikers for their &#8220;Name-A-Snowplow&#8221; contest.Fans of the pun are sure to be pleased. After counting nearly 7,000 votes, the winning snowplow names are &#8220;Alice Scooper,&#8221; &#8220;Snowguaro&#8221; and &#8220;Frost Responder,&#8221; ADOT announced in a November news release.The names will be added to the driver and passenger side doors of the three vehicles, and they will each be utilized in different parts of the state, the department said.&#8220;&#8217;Alice Scooper&#8217; will be stationed at an ADOT maintenance yard in Flagstaff, &#8216;Snowguaro&#8217; will patrol highways near Superior, Ariz., and &#8216;Frost Responder&#8217; will, uh, respond to winter weather from its soon-to-be-home in Page, Ariz,&#8221; ADOT said.According to ADOT, Arizonans submitted almost 4,700 names in the first phase of the contest before the Department of Transportation narrowed it down to 15 finalists for people to vote on. The three winners beat out other names such as &#8220;Mt. Humpfreeze,&#8221; &#8220;Flake-Forty-Eight&#8221; and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three snowplow trucks officially have new names after the Arizona Department of Transportation announced the winning monikers for their &#8220;Name-A-Snowplow&#8221; contest. Fans of the pun are sure to be pleased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}