Friday, March 19, 2010

Happy Birthday, UCR 5000!!!

Unregistered Carriers on 03/17/2009 - 656
Unregistered Carriers on 03/18/2010 - 640

Illinois - 97.05%
Maine - 96.40%
Indiana - 92.24%
Alabama - 91.83%
Kentucky - 89.83%

Exactly one year ago today, we constructed our first UCR5000 spreadsheet after publicly declaring at the UCR Board Meeting that Illinois was going to attempt to register everybody in our UCR Universe for 2009.

You may recall that our first "Unregistered List" contained 5,123 carriers - and we had already registered somewhere in the neighborhood of 13,000 IL carriers for 2009 at that point!

UCR-Link didn't exist at that point. Our first UCR reports actually came out of our CVIEW. Eventually, we tried to jam so many UCR-related things into CVIEW that Chris finally said, "Why don't we just make a separate UCR software product out of this." We both agreed that other states might be interested in a product like that.

We can now see the light at the end of the "getting to zero" tunnel. If there's any bad news, it's that we've needed a registration year of 18 months ... and counting.... to get there. But the good news is that we are now smarter, we have better tools, we have some experience under our belts, and we're are ready for 2010 --- if we can just get some fees!!!

Have a great weekend!

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