spkennyuk
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You were the one who said it will only take a couple of minutes in your previous post! Which is longer than before.
I'm not an expert of lorry paper work, but surely any rocket scientist can work out that when something takes longer than it did before there will be a knock on effect.
Ignoring something and saying Y2K didn't happen doesn't mean that everything will be rosey in the future.
Maybe Y2K didn't happen as systems were fixed/amended/adjusted to ensure it didn't happen (all I know is that I got a load of overtime changing my then work systems to ensure Y2K didn't have an effect).
Thus far with no deal, we haven't planned for sh*t, other than a massive lorry park up the road from where I live to cope with the excess paperwork delays they expect.
And the other 4 they want to build. I guess there's no need for that either?
Not planning for a potential outcome is madness. Bit like ignoring Covid because it only kills 0.01% of the population eh?
(Apparently) you dont thinks it take more than a few minutes to get a truck off a ferry and out of the port.
As for planning ahead for both a deal and no deal scenario. I think you will find Customs and the freight industry have been planning ahead for some time.
So i would agree not planning for a potential outcome would be madness if that was true.
My point about y2k was that the media spent so much time telling anybody that would listen what a disaster it was going to be and everything from hospital equipment to the banks would be shut down at the stroke of midnight.
Nothing happened.
There certainly wasnt massive overtime claims from my IT department to check all the equipment we had any PCs that were less than 5 years old were not affected as the bios were upto date. Anything older may have needed a bios update but at 5 years and over they were mostly due to be retired out.
As for your covid statement ! Not sure what your trying to suggest there. Ive not ignored covid nor has the UK government and there is certainly a vast amount of planning on how to deal with covid so i dont see the point your trying to make.
The UK press and others seem to be seriously underestimating the ability of the freight companies and customs to have the necessary procedures and solutions in place by the 1st January whatever the Brexit deal or no deal outcome is.
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