Update your MCS-150 Now

The following notice was posted on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Site regarding updating your MCS-150.  See the full notice here.

Update your MCS-150 now with 2011 VMT/PU information or shortly after January 1, 2013 with your 2012 data to ensure that FMCSA is using the most accurate data available to calculate your percentiles. Visit https://li-public.fmcsa.dot.gov/LIVIEW/PKG_REGISTRATION.prc_option to update your MCS-150 information. Under the “Existing Registration Updates” section, choose the first option - “I need to update my USDOT number registration information or file my biennial update.”

PLEASE NOTE: The SMS website is updated monthly, so your MCS-150 changes will not be reflected on that site until the next monthly update. You can find the schedule of SMS updates at http://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/sms. MCS-150 updates show up faster on SAFER and the FMCSA Portal websites.

If you have not already done so, you will want to update your MCS-150 or you can contact Truck Services of North America and we can take care of the update for you. TSNA takes the paperwork out of your way. For more details contact us at TSNAmerica.com or call 803.386.0320.

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FMCSA Issues Letters For Elimination of Registrant-Only USDOT Numbers

Back in August of 2010, the FMSCA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) announced a Performance and Registration Information Systems Management (PRISM) procedural change eliminating the Registrant-Only USDOT Numbers that was originally scheduled to take effect on September 1, 2011, but was extended until September 1, 2012.

The Registrant-Only USDOT Number was established when a company owned and registered its commercial vehicle for the sole purpose of renting or leasing them to motor carriers that would operate them or the when the company was an owner-operator that was leased to a motor carrier and would never operate the vehicle under its own USDOT Number or operating authority.

The Registrant-Only USDOT Number is being eliminated for two reasons:

1. Data quality issues due to safety events, such as roadside inspections being improperly attributed to Registrant-Only USDOT Numbers.
2. Registrant-Only companies are not included in the Safety Measurement System (SMS), which includes the new entrant safety audit.

The FMCSA mailed letters to Registrant-Only USDOT Number holders notifying them that their USDOT Number will become inactive on or about October 13, 2012 unless they respond.

For more information check out : www.irponline.org/news

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