FMCSA’s Elison addresses Motus again, still no date on full repair

Chattanooga–It hasn’t been that long–less than a month–since Jesse Elison spoke to an industry event and addressed the issue of the beleaguered new Motus registration system. The deputy administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) spoke Monday at FreightWaves’ Broker Compliance Symposium, one of two one-day sessions that serve as a prelude to the larger Future of Freight Festival here that begins Tuesday The biggest news in his presentation was really no news: after saying at the National Motor Freight Traffic Association in early October that FMCSA was “weeks away” from fixing the issues with the rollout of the agency’s new registration system, Elison offered no new indication that a resolution was at hand. Interviewed by FreightWaves podcast host Charles Gracey, Elison did say it would be “really weeks and not months, not like six months before we tackle this, before we stabilize it.” He conceded that the “user experience” has been on “working on keeping people out,” which is actually a goal, to ensure that unqualified carriers can not register with the system. “But it is still absolutely more people than just the bad actors we intended it for,”