Registering the New Carriers

Unregistered Carriers on 8/14/2009 - 2477
Unregistered Carriers on 8/15/2009 - 2457

I mentioned this yesterday, but it bears repeating:

Since 1/1/09, a total of 32,752 carriers have 1) received new USDOT numbers and 2) met the criteria for the UCR Universe. Of that number, we have registered a grand total of 13,065 carriers - 39.89%.

In other words, we are not doing a very good job (in my opinion) of registering the newest, freshest UCR Universe carriers. And it's not just a few carriers - there are 20,000 unregistered carriers in this group.

The best thing I can tell you is that if you monitor the USDOT numbers issued to UCR Universe carriers in your state, you will be amazed as to how many of them are not on your radar. This statement does not pertain to Maine, however. Maine has 133 new USDOT numbers and has registered 114 of them - 85.71%. I'm guessing it's part of their IRP/IFTA procedure. We're next, having issued 1839 USDOT numbers that are UCR Universe material and registering 1466 of them - 79.72% We don't have the IRP connection, but we have the ITERIS information connection that enables us to work this group pretty good. And, as you know from past posts, we have always focused a lot of attention on this group.

After that, it goes down hill fast, with no other state being above 60%. Many states are below 25%!

If you'd like to know more about these numbers and what you can do about yours, give me a call. We really need to do better in this category!

I'll be out Monday thru Wednesday, watching some serious world-class tennis at the Cincinnati Masters. My next post will be Thursday. Until then, give some thought to those new guys!