In case you think that we have undertaken the UCR5000 project with a lot of advantages that other states don't have, I'd like to put those misconceptions to rest.
First, a couple of numbers (courtesy of Iteris) for your consideration. For RY 2009, we have registered 14,348 carriers and, as I indicated in the previous post, we have roughly 4300 unregistered carriers. Only CA has registered more carriers at 16,658 - but they still have 11,467 unregistered carriers.
Staffing
We really only have three staffers who work on UCR - and none of them work on UCR full-time. They are, admittedly, prolific - but only part-time on UCR. I will describe their roles more fully as we go along.
UCR Registration Web Site
Simply put, we don't have one. All of our registrations are paper registrations. I'll talk about the reasons later.
IRP/IFTA "Hammers"
Here in Illinois, we don't have the ability or the authority to impede IRP or IFTA registration if carriers don't register for UCR. Those programs reside in separate agencies. And, interestingly, while we have good relationships with those agencies, we don't interact with them all that much. Furthermore, I don't expect that to be a hindrance in our UCR5000 quest.
So ... no particular "magic bullets" for getting to zero.
Oh, we don't have access to MCMIS, either. I'll discuss that issue in an upcoming post.
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