Californicopia

Unregistered Carriers on 10/13/2009 - 1964
Unregistered Carriers on 10/15/2009 - 1904

Sorry you didn't hear from me yesterday. I tried all day to write a UCR blog post, but the site was unavailable. We're here now, though, so let's get started.

On July 17, 2009, I wrote about my "My Secret Stretch Goal" - which was to register more Illinois carriers than California registered California carriers because they were - and still are - in first place.

Specifically, I wrote:

"California has registered 18,023 carriers as of this morning's Iteris report. We have registered 16,074 - so we're 1,949 registrations behind them. But they still have a pool of 10,165 unregistered carriers, while we only have 3,006. You can see the problem. Even I register all of my unregistered guys - my "getting to zero" goal - I'll only have a total of 19,000 UCR registrations. CA only has to register another 1,000 guys to beat me. As I said, it's just a fun goal anyway. The more carriers we all register, the better."

So, here we are three months later ... and the numbers are intriguing --- at least to me!

As of this morning, CA has registered 19,203 carriers - EXACTLY 1,000 more carriers than they had on July 17th - and IL has registered 18,799 carriers, so we're only 404registrations apart vs. 1,949 in July. That's cool all by itself. But ... the amazing thing is that we've still got 1,904 unregistered carriers left! And we've deactivated a lot of guys since July.

Let's summarize the intriguing part: we've registered 2700+ carriers since July 17th, but we've only reduced our Unregistered List by 1100 carriers. That's a differential of 1600 carriers in 90 days! And, if you have been following this blog, you know that there's no sign of a letup. We registered 80 carriers yesterday - and only reduced our U/L by 60. That's becoming a daily event!

What a country!!!!