Saturday, April 3, 2010

Getting To Zero - One More Thing

Illinois - 97.59%
Maine - 96.38%
Indiana - 92.74%
Alabama - 92.00%
Kentucky - 89.73%
Oklahoma - 89.62%

In yesterday's post, I forgot to talk about one more thing that may make "getting to zero" a little misleading - carriers who are "in process".

In addition to the "sideways adds", we are always going to have a few carriers on any given day who are "in process". In other words, there will always be a few registrations "in between" the carrier and us. Usually, this is in the mail or FedEx. They could also be planning to fax their registration in today or drop by in person. Or, they might be waiting for a permit agent to open so they can have the P/A do the registration.

When we get right down to the last few, I'm sure we'll find a couple more reasons why we can't get it right down to zero on a given day. Maybe, since we don't have direct access to MCMIS, we're going to be waiting to get status changes - from carrier to registrant or active to inactive or interstate to intrastate - in MCMIS.

At any rate, I'm thrilled that we can even contemplate these last few piddly issues. But who knows ... maybe the last 50 registrations will prove to be much tougher than I think they will. Only time will tell.

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