More from the 10-Nov report...

"Highways - Trucking Companies

Both the American Trucking Association (ATA) and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) are still compiling the results of surveys conducted this summer on the Y2K status of their members. ATA reports widespread awareness and Y2K mitigation by its members, which are primarily large and medium-sized, technologically advanced businesses. As previously reported, an ATA survey conducted in spring 1999 showed that 74 percent of responding member companies had completed renovation, 81 percent had contingency plans, and over half of the respondents had tested and implemented those plans.

The National Motor Freight Traffic Association has not surveyed its 3,000 motor common carrier members on Y2K status, but reported that the Y2K issue has been addressed in informal sessions of the 60 to 80 most active carriers and believes its members to be Y2K ready."

Just oozes with feel-good fuzzies, huh!? (any guesses as to how many or what percentage actually responded at all? -- they sure didn't want to tell us, did they?)

TA

-- TA (stuck@the.whse), November 12, 1999

Answers

We'll ALL know in a little over a month and a half!

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), November 12, 1999.

This report is just full of little tell-tails...

"The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) conducted a second survey of its membership, which represents 145 port authorities, in August 1999. Responses were received from 33 U.S., five Caribbean, seven Canadian, and 12 Latin American ports authority. All respondents expect to achieve Y2K compliance by the end of 1999, and none expect major disruptions to their operations. Eighty-seven percent of U.S. respondents report being engaged in coordination on the Y2K issue with local harbor safety committees and with local U.S. Coast Guard Captains of the Port. For U.S. ports, 90 percent reported that renovation was "largely or close to largely completed," 87 percent applied the same category for validation efforts, and 81 percent in implementation. Canadian ports reported 100 percent "largely or close to largely" renovated, 71 percent validated, and 100 percent implemented. Caribbean and Latin American ports reported 93 percent "largely or close to largely" for renovation, validation, and implementation."

Translation: 33+5+7+12 = 57 respondents; divide by 145 = 39.3% response rate.

(We know only those proud of their status respond)

Not even 40% CLAIM to be done!

Time to get back to Food 4 Less NOW!

-- TA (stuck@the.dock), November 12, 1999.

I work with one of the largest Highway Transportation Departments in the South and they are ready. Lets see now they are still using a 2 digit year to show current dates in their internal systems, they assume no disruption in gasoline supplies and gas tax revenue, they will be able to pay all contractor claims (extremely heavy reliance on consultants). They have so many consultants that they hire consultants to manage the consultants. What a joke. They pay the consultants about double what they pay their staff people and claim that it is cheaper. (Clinton math) Then they have to either accept lousy work or send it back to be redone. There are so many design changes caused by incompetence and by an attempt to meet the deadline date that it it truly pathethic. Then they have all of the quality initiatives which boils down to do quality work but meet the due date first. The deadline is met and quality suffers. They are in for a very nasty surprise in about 50 days.

-- Moe (Moe@3stooges.gom), November 12, 1999.

Moe,

Just because the date display only has two digits does not mean that it is not ready for the Century Date Change (sounds better than Y2K IMO). It matters how the date is stored. It may very well be ready for the turnover. Talk to your IT guy - he may be able to tell you.

(Whatever happened to Shemp)

-- Lurking on the sidelines (Alw@ys lurking.com), November 12, 1999.