Wednesday, November 4, 2009

UCR Is A Terrific Program!

Unregistered Carriers on 11/03/2009 - 1798
Unregistered Carriers on 11/04/2009 - 1764

I'm getting a little tired of everybody bashing UCR. I've said this before, but I think it bears repeating:

We have done a remarkable job implementing UCR.

We have never received a dime of funding for UCR implementation or administration!

We collate and distribute electronic enforcement information from ten different systems around the country in an extremely effective and timely manner.

We register more carriers than IRP or IFTA.

We have registered just under 75% of the assumed universe of carriers - or at least the assumed universe of carrier "records". This percentage was, at one time, cited by certain industry representatives in public meetings as the threshold number for "a good faith effort" by States, but has now apparently come to represent the States "not doing nearly enough".

I could go on ... but you get the point.

It doesn't hurt to look over our shoulders every once in a while to see how far we've come. And we're only going to get better!

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