Building Your Own UCR System - Part 1

Unregistered Carriers on 7/21/2009 - 2943
Unregistered Carriers on 7/22/2009 - 2930
Yesterday's Registrations (IL system) - 11 / $1009 (avg $91)


Yesterday, I mentioned that a couple more states are considering building their own UCR system. Many people don't understand why States should even be ALLOWED to do this, let alone WHY they would want to do it. But it makes sense to me ... up to a point.

As for why States should be allowed to build their own system, the simple fact remains that there's no prohibition against it. Indiana has always been considered to be a solution that States could use if they didn't have their own solution. Until the Board has a vendor that is not a generous volunteer state, I don't think that's going to change.

As for why States want to do it, the short answer is "more control".

The good news and the bad news is that most of these States want control over the entire registration process ... and the "back-end processes" ... and the reporting ... and the renewals ... and let's not forget the immediate cash flow.

Some states even "double enter" because they want to register their own carriers in their own system - but they don't have a way to convey the information to the Feds. So, they enter registrations into their own system - and then they turn right around and enter the same information into the Indiana system so that the information will be sent to the Feds.

These kinds of "wants" engender a few responsibilities as well. I'll talk more about those in my next post.