{"id":5023,"date":"2012-09-21T21:33:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T21:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=5023"},"modified":"2012-09-21T21:33:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T21:33:52","slug":"fmcsa-registrant-dot-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/fmcsa-registrant-dot-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"FMCSA  registrant DOT numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a leased owner-operator and manage your own base plates, your registrant-only DOT number will expire 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. Senior agency officials Thursday presented plans for eliminating so-called \u201cRegistrant-only\u201d DOT numbers from state-federal collaborative efforts in registration procedures for <a href=\"http:\/\/truckerhunt.com\/\">truck <\/a>equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The practice for valid registrant-only companies \u2013 rental and leasing companies as well as leased owner-operators \u2013 to be issued such a number during the vehicle registration process was eliminated on September 1, and the registrant-only option on MCS-150 filing forms was removed September 15. Remaining active registrant-only DOT numbers are scheduled to be automatically removed on October 13.<\/p>\n<p>The existence of these numbers had contributed to poor data quality in the <a href=\"http:\/\/freightbrokerscourse.com\/\">Motor Carrier<\/a> Management and Information System database, where inspectors somewhat regularly erroneously filed violations under carriers\u2019 or equipment-providers\u2019 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 \u201cevade enforcement,\u201d FMCSA said, by flying under the agency\u2019s radar.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for loads to Haul? <a href=\"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/\">http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a leased owner-operator and manage your own base plates, your registrant-only DOT number will expire 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. Senior agency officials Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5025,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions\/5025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}