Tools of the UCR Trade - Part 1

Unregistered Carriers on 9/30/2009 - 1945
Unregistered Carriers on 10/1/2009 - 1933

Tool #1 - Unregistered List
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When I talk about the "Unregistered List", I am referring to a State's list of all of the carriers in the "UCR Universe" who are heretofore unregistered. Many States don't routinely look at their list either because they don't have access to it or because they only deal with the carriers who walk in their door.

There isn't just one way to get an Unregistered List. An Unregistered List can be generated from CVIEW, SAFESTAT or UCR-Link. Here in Illinois, we use the Unregistered List that's part of the Iteris UCR-Link product. Frankly, I can't imagine running a UCR program without this list.

First thing every morning, we generate the unregistered list and do an electronic comparison with yesterday's list. This gives us the Daily Change List - the carriers who have been added to, deleted from or changed since yesterday's list. We are particularly interested in the "Adds", as they represent our hot new UCR leads. I'll talk more about the Daily Change List tomorrow.

The great thing about the Unregistered List is that it can serve multiple purposes. First, it puts a name, location and phone number to everybody who should be registering in your state. Each name begs the question of why they are not registered yet. Second, it can be sorted by city or zip code to create a target list for an enforcement person working a certain area. Finally, since it has vehicle and trailer information, it can be used to identify the "highest dollar" carriers for maximum revenue collection efficiency. These are just a few of the uses for the Unregistered List. I'm sure many states have additional uses.