UCR and FMCSA Data

Illinois - 97.72%
Maine - 96.48%
Indiana - 92.70%
Alabama - 92.44%

The other day, I was having lunch with our State FMCSA Director.

We were at a buffet and busy stuffing our faces, but, as I recall, he said something to the effect of, "Do you know we had 4,500 New Entrants last year? That's head-and-shoulders above every other mid-western state --- and right up there with CA and TX."

For better or for worse, I felt that we had a lot to do with that "achievement" because of UCR. In fact, I think it's the best part of UCR.

We haven't been just out collecting money. We have been out "scaring up" carriers who needed to register for UCR because they needed to have USDOT numbers all along ... and many of them didn't even have USDOT numbers yet. I ask again --- why didn't they have them? Most of them weren't new carriers. It's not a rhetorical question.

In the process, we have also been finding Federal data records that need to be deactivated or corrected. In theory, this type of effort should be coming out of programs like MCSAP, but isn't.

I think UCR is a great example of a State-Fed partnership. And, quite honestly, I bristle a little when I hear people say that they program is just about "collecting money". That's not the way we view the program here.

Just ask our FMCSA Director!