IRP and UCR

Unregistered Carriers on 7/14/2009 - 3052
Unregistered Carriers on 7/15/2009 - 3036
Yesterday's Registrations (IL system) - 27 / $2053 (avg $81)


I mentioned the other day that Iteris is going to provide us with a report that identifies IRP carriers who are not Registrants, do not show up on our Unregistered List and who haven't registered under UCR for the current year. This, in turn, led me to think about why we don't use IRP registration as another filter for our "UCR universe criteria".


The new Universe criteria would be an active, interstate carrier who has had an inspection, a crash, an MCS-150 update, a UCR registration OR an IRP registration in the past year. So what's wrong with that idea? Nothing, except ... the IRP information is coming from SAFER, and SAFER isn't updated by every state when it comes to IRP. So, we would be "unbalanced" in the sense that some states would have the IRP carriers in their Unregistered List and some would not. Is that a problem? I don't think so, but it does seem wrong somehow. I've go to think about it some more.