Vendor As State "Proxy" - Part 2

Unregistered Carriers on 03/12/2009 - 686
Unregistered Carriers on 03/15/2010 - 687

Illinois - 96.83%
Maine - 96.24%
Indiana - 92.12%
Alabama - 91.76%
Kentucky - 89.84%

In my last post, I said that the registration side (as opposed to the enforcement side) of UCR involves two major tasks:

1) Carrier contact
2) Act of carrier registration

Let's look at Carrier Contact first. I can tell you that when it comes to carrier contact, any state that is not using capabilities comparable to those found in the UCR-Link product will lose the carrier contact battle to the vendor every time.

First, you will be contacting only the current crop of unregistered UCR Universe carriers. That list changes every day and is impossible to keep up with without functionality of this kind.

Second, you have the Emailer, which provides the capability to automatically contact all unregistered carriers with email addresses every fifteen days - free! Hands-off!

These capabilities put a vendor or state in the position of being able to contact only the appropriate carriers relentlessly. You are virtually guaranteed to increase your registration percentage with that kind of activity going on.

So, in my opinion, the best a state can do is achieve a "draw" against a vendor
when it comes to Carrier Contact.

Next time, we'll focus on the second major task - the actual act of registration.