Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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MAJOR MAJOR COMPLIANCE COMPLIANCE CHANGES AHEAD B y the time you read this, the FMCSA should have announced more definite guidance for implementation of the new United Registration System or the URS. In the works for more than 10 years, the URS will radically change the way carriers, brokers and forwarders must communicate with the agency. A preview of the new program was announced in April of 2013 with a hard effective date of October 23, 2015, but little detail has yet been provided. The implementation of the URS will introduce massive changes including the following: BY HENRY E. SEATON MC Numbers for regulated carriers and brokers as well as FF Numbers for forwarders will all be eliminated with single U.S. DOT numbers including "ghost" numbers for new registrants assigned for all registrants. 1 2 Over 200,000 exempt and private carriers which previously have been assigned DOT Numbers but have not filed evidence of insurance and agents will be required to make filings. These enrollments will have to be made by insurers and agents for service of process electronically. The date for compliance for agents is not until April 2016 but so far there is no extended compliance date past October 23 for submission of insurance information. 3 All existing applications and forms for communicating with the FMCSA will be retired after October 23 unless changed. A new, single all-purpose MCSA-1 will be the only online protocol for communicating with the agency, including but not limited to: continued on page 16 "THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE URS WILL INTRODUCE MASSIVE CHANGES..." "" 14 IT MAGAZINE Vo l . 9 , N o . 5