Unregistered Carriers on 02/26/2009 - 832
Unregistered Carriers on 03/02/2010 - 796
Illinois - 96.32%
Maine - 95.23%
Indiana - 91.80%
Alabama - 90.95%
Kentucky - 89.70%
In case you're not aware of it, the FMCSA indicated today - despite the furlough - that the 2010 fee rule was sent to OMB yesterday, with a potential publication date in mid-June. That development reminded me of a cartoon I saw once that showed two guys fishing in a boat with a huge mushroom cloud in the background. I don't remember the whole caption, but the gist of it was, "I'll tell you what that means, Bob. It means we don't need a license anymore and screw the limit!" Talk about making your lemonade out of your lemon!
Now ... while I hope that OMB moves the 2010 fee rule through their process much faster than mid-June, we could very well be looking at three more months of 2009 registration. That's roughly 60 more work days. If you divide 796 by 60, you get something like 14, which is the NET number of unregistered carriers we would have to remove daily from our list either through registration or deactivation to "get to zero". That's not a small task, but it certainly seems within reach.
So, .... we shall see what we shall see! And Maine will probably beat me to it!
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