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Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April

C. P. Cosgrove
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I mostly agree

As a former international haulage driver this sounds like one massive upcoming cock-up and I agree with almost everything said to date in El Reg on this subject. The people I feel sorriest for are traffic admins and managers in the distribution industries. The beta - sorry, the working software - is going to be released in mid-December. These folks are not going to see much of their families over Christmas as they try to get this to work. Still they do have an extra day to get it working, unless my memory plays me false the cross-channel ferries don't operate on New Year's Day.

However I do have one small annoying bone to pick with El Reg, but they are not alone in this.

" about 60 miles or 96km end-to-end"

'60 miles' suggests an error level of +/- 6 miles or 10%, '96km' suggests an error level of +/- 500m or 0.5%. Why not just say '60 miles or 100km' ?

Chris Cosgrove

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