Mary Queen of Salt, Gangsta Granny Gritter and Gonnae Snow Dae That are among Scotland’s fleet of gritters out in force today making the country’s roads safer for motorists.
Storm Darcy brought a blanket of snow and freezing temperatures to Scotland on Tuesday causing travel chaos with several accidents occurring.
The Met Office has a yellow weather warning in place until 9pm for much of the country, which a separate amber warning for the central belt and east coast.
Meanwhile, Police Scotland are urging drivers to only make essential journeys due to a high risk of travel disruption, power cuts and communities cut off.
But working to make roads safer and journeys easier was Scotland’s winter fleet of road gritters who were dispatched to spread salt and plough snow.
Check out the local gritter in your area on the interactive map below or via Traffic Scotland's Road Gritter Tracker, with active vehicles appearing in yellow.
Among the team gritters tackling Scotland's roads are Oor Chilly hard at work on the A9 near Forfar, while Slippy McGritty took to the M73 near Coatbridge.
Sir Andy Flurry is concentrated on the A9 heading towards Dunblane while Polar Patroller headed out on the A1 near Edinburgh.
Traffic Scotland says that its current winter fleet consists of 213 vehicles that are available for ploughing and spreading salt.
A whopping 119 vehicles can be deployed at the one time to treat Scotland’s roads during the most severe weather conditions.
Scots have been famed for giving them hilarious pun-filled names because we simply couldn’t let them strut their stuff with boring and generic ones.
Transport Scotland kicked off the trend in 2006 when it asked primary school pupils to provide the most inventive names.
Children across the land participated in the contest, with officials selecting the best entries.
It comes as Forecasters predicted up to 20cm of snow will fall from 6pm on Monday night until 1pm on Tuesday.
It is expected that more snow will fall between 4am and 1pm on Tuesday.
