Name a gritter

Lancashire’s gritters are some of our hardest working vehicles, helping to keep our roads safe through the toughest winter conditions.

Ready for the season ahead, we've replaced 10 of our older gritters with brand new vehicles, and we're giving Lancashire residents the chance to name them.

Some of our 45-strong fleet already have names from previous competitions, but we'd love to name the new gritters too. Who will be joining Aunty Freeze, Melton John, Bobby Snowball, and Freezy Rider on Lancashire's roads this winter?

Terms and conditions

Freeze! Before you share your suggestions with us, please take a moment to read the terms and conditions:

• The competition is organised by Lancashire County Council of PO Box 78, County Hall, Preston PR1 8XJ.
• The competition is free and open to all residents living in Lancashire. Lancashire County Council reserves the right to disqualify any entrant if it has reasonable grounds to believe that the entrant has breached any of these terms and conditions.
• The opening date for entries is 9am on Wednesday 8 October 2025 and the closing date is 12 noon on Friday 31 October 2025. Suggestions submitted before or after this date will not be included. The winning names will be announced by the end of November on the county council's website.
• There are no limits on the number of entries per person.
  
  You can enter in a number of ways:
  1. Submit your suggestion on our website. Please only include information requested in the form.
  2. Post your suggestion as a comment on our Facebook posts about the name a gritter competition at facebook.com/lancashirecc. Only suggestions added to the comments on these Facebook posts will be accepted as entries. Suggestions received in the comments of other posts, via other social media channels, or via direct message will not be accepted.
  3. Submit suggestions via post to: Name the Gritter competition, Communications, Lancashire County Council, County Hall, Fishergate, Preston, PR1 8XJ.

• The following entries will not be considered as they would result in duplicating names which are already being used on our existing gritters: Albert Icestein, Aunty Freeze, Grittersaurus, Basil Salty, Bobby Snowball, Captain Snow, Cool Grittania, Freddie Frostoff, Freezy Rider, Gritter Garbo, Ice Buster, Margritt, Melton John, Penelope Gritstop, True Gritter, Sir David Attenbrrrrgh, Snow Be Gone Kenobi, Snowella De Ville, The Winter Sprinter, Wall-ice and Gromit
• The judges retain absolute discretion not to accept suggestions that are deemed inappropriate. This includes names that may be offensive, previously published, copyrighted (by somebody other than the entrant) or otherwise contrary to the spirit of the competition or any of the specific rules noted for the competition.
• In the event of any dispute regarding the rules or other matters related to the competition, the judges’ decision is final and binding and no correspondence or further discussion will be entered into.
• Lancashire County Council reserves the right to amend at any time these Terms and Conditions or to terminate this competition without giving notice. Any amendments will be posted on this page.
• Lancashire County Council will not accept responsibility for competition entries that are lost, mislaid, damaged or delayed in transit, regardless of cause, including, for example, as a result of any postal failure, equipment failure, technical malfunction, systems, satellite, network, server, computer hardware or software failure of any kind.
• Lancashire County Council will only process your personal data for the specific purpose of receiving name suggestions. Your personal data will not be used for any other purpose including directly contacting you about your entry. We will only retain information for the purpose of the competition and will not keep it any longer than necessary. For further details please see our privacy notice.