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Y2K bug bites trucker

Monday, 20 December 1999 18:27 (GMT)

(UPI Focus)

TAVARES, Fla., Dec. 20 (UPI) - A central Florida trucker is now convinced the Y2K bug can bite and he's staying home until after New Year's Day. Florida officials confirmed Monday they had sent tax notices to John E. Campbell of Tavares, Fla., and about 50 other truckers with a deadline of Feb. 11, 1900.

"It's kind of funny, I guess, but in a way it's not funny," said Campbell, who hauls chemicals to California and brings produce back. He said he doesn't want to be on the road Jan. 1 if things go haywire. "I'll be loaded up, but I'm not going anywhere," he said.

State officials said last week that 97 percent of the state's computers were Y2K proof and would not click over to the year 1900 New Year's Eve instead of 2000. Problems are expected world wide. Tom Joyce, assistant director of the Division of Motor Vehicles, said division officials caught the tax notice error and are notifying the ruckers that the deadline is really Feb. 11, 2000.

"It's a concern. Obviously we don't want it happening," Joyce said. "It was just one little glitch though, and we corrected it."

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Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), December 20, 1999

Answers

Must be tough to have to get a trailer wash every time you go to Cali. Everybody knows you can't haul Haz-mat and food products in the same trailer without one...legally.

What amazes me is that the STATE actually caught it and notified the citizenry, instead of keeping quiet and adding penalties. LOL

-- trucker (seeya@thehighways.end), December 20, 1999.


Different trailers, maybe??

-- Liz (lizpavek@hotmail.com), December 21, 1999.

Listen Kids, The second you start trusting the media for anything, you will simply be lost. It simply a waste of bandwidth to discuss something those UPI idiots have sent out.

Frank

-- Frank McGraw (communic@excite.com), December 21, 1999.


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