Staying the UCR Course

Unregistered Carriers on 11/20/2009 - 1575
Unregistered Carriers on 11/24/2009 - 1532

Maine - 93.25%
Illinois - 92.82%

We had a big registration day yesterday - 50 registrations! Many of these registrations were a direct result of good old persistence coupled with our concerted efforts to clear up the MCMIS records with old MCS-150 update dates.

Currently, we need a NET reduction of right around 100 unregistered carriers to catch Maine. You'll recall that catching them is a moving target depending upon what THEY do. My thought is this: if we improve faster than they improve, we'll still catch them one of these days - even if they continue to improve their percentage.

Having said that, we may encounter a slight setback today in that we are expecting a delayed batch of additions from the Feds. In fact, everybody may be facing the same delayed adds. The Fed update schedule still baffles me a little, but it seems like everything eventually "comes out in the wash".

If you've been following this blog, you know that we have now increased our registration percentage by 1.43% this month. The next highest November percentage increase is, ironically, Maine at .36%.

It's interesting to note that the registration percentage for some states is actually going backward for the month. Going backwards can easily happen in this part of the registration cycle if you register less of your state's carriers than the number of new "UCR Universe" USDOT numbers added in your state.

I've said it before - I think FOCUS is really important. If you focus on getting better at UCR, you probably will. Conversely, if you don't focus on getting better at UCR, chances are good that you won't. You may even get worse - at least from a registration percentage standpoint.

The most important UCR best practice may be making the decision to get better at UCR.