Map Of The Day

Scotland's Trunk Road Gritter Tracker wins the cyberspace today. This real-time map of Scotland's route gritting trucks is creating a chip of a wintertime tempest on social media.

The popularity of the Trunk Road Gritter Tracker is non because you lot tin follow the trucks inward real-time every bit they grit Scotland's roads. Don't teach me incorrect - watching the niggling truck markers moving to a greater extent than or less on a map of Scotland is lots of fun. However, what has excited the cyberspace to a greater extent than is the hilarious names given to some of the trucks.

Some of my favorite truck names on the map include Gritty Gritty Bang Bang, Sir Salter Scott, Gritty Gonzales, Luke Snowalker as well as Grittie McVitie,