The Albuquerque Journal had an article recently about a contest to name snowplows in the New Mexico Department of Transportation’s fleet. After the NMDOT reviewed almost 1,600 suggestions — many that had a New Mexico twist — I’ve included some of the ones that made the cut:
- Sleetwood Mac
- Darth Blader
- Bis-Snow-Chito
- Mr. Snow-It-All
- Better Call Salt
- Billy the Skid
- SnowZobra

So If we can name snow plows, why not garbage trucks?

How about:
- Landfill Filly
- You Only Take Me to Dumps
- Flies with Ten Wheels
- The Sheriff of Rotting-Ham
- Dump Blonde
- Trash-A-Rito
- Waste Away from Burritoville
- I Am Your Mother (Cleaning Up After You)
- Trash Gordon
- Smelly Sally
- The Crap Nebula
- Dump Bunny
- Garbager Harbinger
- Trash Bandicoot
And from the Rock Group collection:
- Trashing Pumpkins
- Trash Mouth
- Garbage (Yes, there was really a band named that)
- Trash Test Dummies
And from the financial sector:
- Trash Cow
- Trash Flow
- Trash is King
Okay, these are pretty cheesy. I’m sure you have better ones. So send me your suggestions and the winner will get a plastic bag of our last week’s kitchen garbage and I’ll repeat your suggestions (nothing too political and assuming I get some) in a future post.