MCMIS, UCR & More - Part 2

Unregistered Carriers on 02/06/2009 - 950
Unregistered Carriers on 02/08/2010 - 953

Illinois - 95.58%
Maine - 93.43%

In the last post, I discussed the connection between MCMIS and UCR. I also explained the "UCR Universe" and how that came about.

Now, I want to make a very important point about the connection between UCR and MCMIS:

The performance of the states under UCR is being "judged" by the percentage of the carriers in the UCR Universe they register.

This means that the states are actually helping to clean up Fed MCMIS data for many of the carriers in the UCR Universe --- but not for the tens of thousands of carriers who are NOT in the UCR Universe.

Here's an example: according to MCMIS, Illinois has about 32,000 carriers that are flagged as "Active, Interstate Carriers". We have registered approximately 20,600 of these carriers and show a UCR Universe remainder of about 950 carriers. This leaves about 11,000 carriers that are "off our UCR radar", primarily because they have not had an inspection, a crash or an MCS-150 update in the past 12 months. To my knowledge, nobody is cleaning up those records.

In the next post, we'll talk some more about the significance of these carrier records.