{"id":128080,"date":"2026-01-18T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128080\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:04:10","slug":"nm-announces-winning-names-from-snowplow-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128080\/","title":{"rendered":"NM announces winning names from snowplow contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 Saltimus Prime. Snowbi Wan Kenobi. Chilly Changa.<\/p>\n<p>Those are some of the winning names from the 2026 Name a Snowplow contest, according to the New Mexico Department of Transportation. <\/p>\n<p>New Mexicans submitted names during December and the top 12 winning entries will be displayed on plows clearing roads across all parts of the state. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"720\" width=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Snowplow-winners-for-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2527756\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The winning names are:<\/p>\n<p>District 1: Chilly Changa, DuckDuckOrangeTruck.<\/p>\n<p>District 2: Snowtorious, B.I.G. Scoop there it is \u266a \u266a \u266a .\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>District 3: Cinder-ella, Clarence.<\/p>\n<p>District 4: A La cinders, Down wit da slikness.<\/p>\n<p>District 5: Snowbi Wan Kenobi, Nope. School\u2019s On.<\/p>\n<p>District 6: Saltimus Prime, Betty Whiteout. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese trucks play an important role in keeping our roads safe during the winter months. Look for our newly named plows on roads near you,\u201d NMDOT said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 Saltimus Prime. Snowbi Wan Kenobi. Chilly Changa. Those are some of the winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-128080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}