Tuesday, June 2, 2009

The New MCMIS Buffer System

Unregistered Carriers on 6/2/2009 - 3837
Unregistered Carriers on 6/3/2009 - 3824
Yesterday's Registrations (IL system) - 22 / $1550 (avg $70)

About two months ago, I announced at a UCR Board Meeting that Chris Campbell of Iteris and I were talking about putting a MCMIS "Buffer System" in place that would be hosted by Iteris. The purpose of this system would be to make "shadow" adjustments (including the ability to virtually deactivate a MCMIS record) to MCMIS motor carrier information without actually changing MCMIS. Several states are now testing this system and we hope to have it in production and connected to the unregistered list by the June NCSTS/UCR meeting.

Under what circumstances would you make these adjustments? Here are several situations:

When, for whatever reasons, you can't get a UCR Registration update to "take" and you want to move the carrier off your Unregistered list

When you can't reach a carrier by phone but you don't want to declare a carrier out of business just because of that.

When you want to declare a carrier out of business, but have no way to get that info to MCMIS

When you get back a mailing marked "bad address" with no forwarding address

When emails bounce back

Remember, you are not changing MCMIS, you are updating "shadow" information about the carrier in the MCMIS buffer system.

If all of this sounds like so much mush, don't be concerned. Chris is going to be in PA and will demo the product for those who are there. For anyone else who's interested, we can schedule another type of demo.

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