WWW Web Number Plates Go Down A Storm!

Thousands of motorists queued up at Road Transport Department (RTD) offices yesterday to get their hands on their favourite personalised registration numbers with the WWW prefix.

number plate auction

Road Transport Department director Mohd Nadzri Osman said the department opened up additional counters to accommodate the last-minute bidders.

“We do not want the public to be disappointed,” he said, adding that the results of the bids would be displayed at the RTD headquarters notice board on May 24.

At press time, the number of bids received at each RTD branch was still not available.

Transport Minister Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha is expected to announce the number of bids at a press conference.

A marketing executive, Tan Sie Yie, 40, of Klang, took the day off to try to get three registration numbers. He would not reveal the numbers, but said one of the bids was RM3,000.

A 54-year-old businessman from Bukit Jalil was confident of winning the bid for the WWW 4 plate.

“The number four is my lucky number and I am sure I will get it as not many will go for the number ‘four’, especially the Chinese, as it is not an auspicious number for them,” said the man, who did not want to be named.

Norraini Nordin, 37, who owns an IT company, turned up at 8am to bid for a number. “I think I should not miss the chance to get it since I run an IT (information technology) business and WWW means World Wide Web.”