It's Official - At Least For Today!!

Unregistered Carriers on 11/04/2009 - 1764
Unregistered Carriers on 11/06/2009 - 1762

This morning - according to the Iteris reports - we are 4 registrations ahead of our friends in California. We have registered 19,478 Illinois carriers while California has registered 19,474 California carriers.

On July 1, we were 2,053 registrations behind them.

Registering nearly 20,000 of our own carriers is probably a much bigger feat for us than it is for California because our pool of carriers is much smaller. In order for us to hit that kind of number, our registration percentage also has to be very high - which, at 91.71%, it is.

As I said to Scott Morris yesterday, there's a difference between focusing on something and just showing up. In fact, of all the "Best Practices", focus may be the most important "Best Practice" of all. Focus drives activity AND innovation - how can we get more out of what we're doing?

To those States who might say, "We must be busier than you are because we don't have time to focus on UCR", I would say, "I doubt it". Feel free to call my staff and ask them yourself. In fact, Kathy said to me yesterday, "I can't even imagine what our lives would be like if we were a Recipient State"! (I can - but I don't want to scare her unnecessarily.)

And now, having caught California, we just have one more stop - Maine. Not for the "lobstuh" - although that would be great - but for the highest UCR registration percentage. Can we overcome a 1.23% deficit? As I've written in other posts, I doubt that it's mathematically possible - especially given the time frame. But then, I didn't think we could catch California either!

Fasten your seat belt, Kath'!