I just had my TWIC used in a scanner for the first time ever this week. Went to The Port of Panama City to get a badge and of course was asked for the damn thing. So once the lady takes a picture for the port ID badge she has to “marry” the two cards together so if need be I can be an escort for a non TWIC holder. The scanner she uses is the official govt issued portable scanner. It kinda looks like the bar code scanner they use in the grocery store. Come to find out that port is one of the few in the trial program for the scanners. So she inserts my card and it won’t read it. She says “it appears your card isn’t any good”. So of course a little panic sets in, then I think half of them probably don’t work we just don’t know because they’re never scanned. Then she says well the scanner does this sometimes let me reboot it. After 30 minutes and 4 reboots it finally read my card. It works over wifi to access the database and it has to reboot several times to read a card way to go Lockheed. So what happens on a typical Wednesday when half the boats in town are crew changing and the Internet goes down at CPort 1? What happens when the scanner has to be rebooted every third swipe at HOSPort? Are we just gonna have lines of 18 wheelers and carryalls up and down the already congested roads? We all know they’re a boondoggle now I have first hand knowledge of how screwed up they are.