Monday, July 6, 2009

The Art of Reconciliation - Part 3

Unregistered Carriers on 7/3/2009 - 3222
Unregistered Carriers on 7/2/2009 - 3209
Yesterday's Registrations (IL system) - 17 / $1,201 (avg $77)


If your head's finished spinning from my last post describing the "resend", I'd like to move on to the next aspect of reconciliation - our own registrations in the IL system.

At first blush, one might think that one registration here in IL equates to one carrier being taken off our unregistered list. But could it possibly be that simple? Heck, no!

One registration here in the IL system only equates to one carrier being removed from our unregistered list when the carrier was on the list to begin with! "Wait a minute!", you say. "Why wouldn't that carrier be on your list? He wasn't registered yet."

There are several possible explanations, but the most likely explanation is that the carrier's MCMIS record doesn't fit the filter criteria. Maybe he is listed as "intrastate-only" or as a "registrant" or as "inactive" or as "private passenger". Or maybe he hasn't had an inspection, a crash, a UCR registration or an MCS-150 update in the last year. Any of these situations would keep him off the list.

So ... part of reconciliation is figuring out how many of our registrations actually correlate with an appearance on our unregistered list.


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