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"In 2021, we bought Berkshire’s first all-electric waste collection vehicle. The council now has 5 of these vehicles and would like your help naming them!
You may have already see ‘The Waster Taster’ and ‘Ricky Gerwaste’ driving around as part of our named food waste collection fleet."
https://www.reading.gov.uk/waste-and-recycling/electric-refuse-vehicle-competition
You have to be a resident of Reading to enter so I'm out but, what've you got?
Scotland fleet of snowploughs and gritters have been named like this they are:-
North West:
• Rumble
• Mr Plow
• The Ice Destroyer
• Gritallica
• Ready, Spready Go!
• Sled Zeppelin
• Snowlar BEAR
• Gansta Granny Gritter
• Frosty
• Snow Angel
• Veruca Salt
• My Name is Doddie
• Sprinkles
• The Snow Buster
• For Your Ice Only
• The Snowclaimers
South East:
• Salty
• Grit A Bit
• My Name’5 Doddie
• I Want to Break Freeze
• Mega Melter
• I’m shovelin’
• Always Be Grit-full
• Scotland’s Bravest Gritter
• Blizzard BEAR
• Basil Salty
• Polar Patroller
• Snow Dozer
• Licence to Chill
• Sir Salter Scott
• Snow Connery
• Nitty Gritty
• Grit-Tok
• The Incredible Ice BEAR
• Walter The Salter
• BFG – Big Friendly Gritter
• BEAR-illiant
• BRINE FREEEEZE
M80 DBFO:
• Mrs McGritter
A92 DBFO
• Polar BEAR Express
<Waits for Osama Bin Lorry to be submitted>
When it's full it'll be Bin Laden.
Whitley Wiffenator (more pertinent to Reading dwellers).
“Where’s ya bin?”
“Shops.”
“No where’s ya wheelie bin?”
”Shops”
The beach buggy used by the lifeguards on Hourtin plage was a 'Poncin'.
TJ you missed out grittny spears.
How about
Curb Crawler?
bin dun, surely?
TJ you missed out grittny spears.
Doncaster did this as well.
https://twitter.com/MyDoncaster/status/931563726414770178
Whitley Wiffenator (more pertinent to Reading dwellers).
I'm going with 'Shinfield Shit Shifter' or 'Wokingham Blob Buster'
Wheelie stealy machine
Reading only has a handful of famous people and they've already done Gervais/Gerwaste.
That only really leaves Kate Binslet.
Kate Binslet is a good shout.
Reading is famous for the 3 B’s. Beer, Biscuits and bulbs iirc.
Maybe the fourth B
Needs an Elvis one too. Reading Elvis is probably more well known in the town than Ricky Gervais.
Reading had the greatest knight William Marshal.
Celebrate the city of Reading and call it -Reading, writing & 'rithmetic
Whitley Whiff Collector
Can’t think of one that would encompass the, still not a city fact. Despite having city centre on the front of busses for a while.
They say Town centre now I think, maybe.
Rubbishi Sunak
Hmmm… Well if they names their gritters too… Otis Spreading
The Theale Bin Lady
Tokers Green recycling machine.
Cane End (can't think of a machine name but it once made some student mates chortle at the name).
