Random Program vs Consortium

A common question is “should I use a random program or a consortium?”

When deciding on if you should put your company into a consortium or run a separate random program, there are two key components:

• Size of the company
• Client preference

Obviously if your client prefers one of the other, go with what they want. If they don’t have a preference we generally follow the rules:

Any client with 10 drivers or less be put into a consortium and any Company with more than 10 drivers be put into a random program.

• Owner-operators are always in a consortium per DOT regulations
• any client with 10 drivers or less is put into a consortium
• any client with 11 drivers or more is in its own random program

Random Program

Learn how to run a Random Program in these two lessons:

• Creating a Random Program
• Managing a Random Program

In short, the process will consist of:

1. Setting the client up as a customer in AIS and ordering a subaccount
2. Creating a pool for the customer
   • Setting testing frequency
   • Setting testing rates
   • Setting alternate preferences
3. Getting an updated employee roster from the client and uploading that into AIS
4. Generating your first random pull and sending out authorization forms