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FMCSA eliminates registrant DOT numbers
If you're a leased owner-operator and manage your own base plates, your registrant-only DOT number expired in mid-October as the Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration attempts to plug yet another data-quality hole in the inspection and crash information well that the Compliance, Safety,
Accountability safety ranking system is based upon.
presented plans for eliminating so-called "Registrant-only" DOT numbers from state-federal collaborative efforts in registration procedures for truck equipment. The practice for valid
registrant-only companies – rental and leasing companies as well as leased owner-operators – to be issued such a number during the vehicle registration process was eliminated on Sept. 1, and the registrant-only forms was removed Sept. 15. Remaining active registrant- only DOT numbers were scheduled to be automatically removed on Oct. 13. The existence of these
numbers had contributed to poor data quality in the Motor Carrier Management and Information System database, where inspectors somewhat violations under carriers' or equipment-providers' registrant-only numbers rather than the correct operating authority. This allowed those violations to be left out of the CSA metric and the associated motor carrier to "evade enforcement," FMCSA said, radar.
"What we discovered was an accelerating trend of motor carriers registering for a registrant-only U.S. DOT number," said FMCSA Transportation Specialist Steve Parker, of the Enforcement Division, for various reasons:
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