Unregistered Carriers on 12/24/2009 - 1333
Unregistered Carriers on 12/28/2009 - 1326
Illinois - 93.84%
Maine - 93.34%
It's tempting to look at all we've accomplished in 2009 and declare victory. But that's not what this blog - or the UCR5000 project - is all about. Let's recap.
In March of 2009, I said in a UCR Board Meeting that I was going to try to "get to zero" unregistered carriers in Illinois - in other words, I was going to try to register every carrier in our Illinois "UCR Universe".
At the time, we had 5,123 carriers left on our unregistered list - having already registered well over 10,000 IL carriers.
As you can see, we now have 1,326 unregistered carriers. What will it take to get to zero from here? Here are a few thoughts:
1) Until we have 2010 fees, we will actively continue to pursue 2009 unregistered carriers. When we get fees for 2010, we will probably get "distracted" as we only have a small staff and I'm sure they will be quite busy!
2) After 12/31/09, we will no longer be adding "new 2009 USDOT numbers" - which means our 2009 UCR Universe can only grow by "sideways additions". End result: quicker (hopefully) reduction of the list.
3) The Daily Reduction Table (DRT). The DRT shows how many work days (and months) we would need to get ourselves to zero based on reducing the list by a certain net number of carriers per work day.
Reduce List By Work Days / Months
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10 133 / 6
20 67 / 3
30 44 / 2
I have to think about what this means for our effort in the new year, but it's intriguing to think that reducing that list by 30 carriers per work day gets us to zero by the end of February. Impossible? No. Improbable? Yes. But I keep thinking about that moment in "Dumb and Dumber" when Loren Holly tells Jim Carrey that his odds of winning her affection are not one-in-a-hundred but "one-in-a-million" and he says, "So you're saying there's a chance!!" I like the enthusiasm!
Hey, what do we have to lose???
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