Research sites have two options when they get a number wrong. Option one: quietly edit the page and let everyone who already read it keep acting on the wrong figure. Option two: fix the page and log the correction, dated, where anyone can see it. Option one is how most of the internet works. It's also how a carrier ends up budgeting off a stale IFTA rate because the page he bookmarked changed without admitting it.
We run option two. Every material correction to a published figure, date, fee, rate, or procedural instruction gets a dated entry on this page. Nothing on this site is silently edited. "Material" means a correction that could change a decision — a wrong rate, a wrong fee bracket, a wrong deadline, a wrong threshold. Typos and formatting fixes don't get logged; nobody ever lost money to a misspelled word.
Each entry shows the date the correction was made, what the page said before, and what it says now. When a reader catches an error, the entry says so — about a third of our corrections come from operator emails, and we'd rather have an embarrassing log than a confidently wrong rate table. Spot something that doesn't match the current official source? Send it to research@fleetdocusa.com with the source you checked against. Verified errors are corrected within two business days and logged here.
2024 Entries
2024-03-08 — UCR Fee Bracket
Registration Renewal page and guide: The 2024 UCR fee for the smallest bracket (0–2 vehicles) was listed as $41. The correct 2024 bracket fee is $37, following the UCR Plan's reduction for the 2024 registration year. The error came from carrying the 2023 bracket forward without re-reading the 2024 announcement — exactly the failure mode our update checklist exists to catch, and didn't. Flagged by a reader in Oklahoma who was registering two trucks and noticed our number was high. The $4 overstatement was small; the lapse wasn't. Checklist updated.
2024-04-19 — CVSA Roadcheck Dates Reference
DOT Inspection Prep page: An early-2024 revision referenced the upcoming International Roadcheck as running "the first full week of June." The confirmed 2024 blitz dates were June 4–6, 2024 — Tuesday through Thursday, as is standard for Roadcheck, not a full week. The page now states the exact dates, and the surrounding text no longer describes blitz weeks loosely. Inspection dates are no place for approximations.
2024-07-12 — IFTA Q2 2024 Illinois Rate
IFTA Filing page: The Illinois diesel rate for Q2 2024 was listed at $0.478 per gallon. After an IFTA Inc. matrix update, the correct Q2 2024 Illinois figure is $0.487 per gallon. The page carried the pre-update matrix figure for eleven days past the matrix revision. Anyone who filed Q2 using our table would have understated Illinois tax by nine-tenths of a cent per gallon on Illinois miles — a small gap, but a wrong number is a wrong number. Corrected and re-verified against the updated matrix.
2024-08-26 — New York HUT Description
Registration Renewal guide: The New York Highway Use Tax section described the HUT as applying to "all carriers operating on NY public highways." That overstated the trigger. The HUT applies to carriers operating vehicles at 18,000 pounds or more gross weight on New York State public highways, with the certification-of-registration and decal requirements following from that threshold. Box truck operators well under 18,000 lbs read the original sentence and reasonably concluded they needed a HUT account they didn't need. Clarified, with the weight threshold now stated in the first sentence of the section.
2024-10-03 — Tire Tread Depth Figure
DOT Inspection Prep page: The tire section stated the federal minimum steer-axle tread depth as "2/32 inch." The correct federal minimum under 49 CFR 393.75 is 4/32 inch on steer axles — 2/32 applies to all other axle positions. The original wording had the two figures transposed in a way that would have told a driver his legal steer tires were illegal and his illegal rears were fine. That's the most dangerous class of error this site can make, and it earned the whole tire section a full re-verification pass against the regulation text, not just a spot fix. Flagged by a fleet safety manager in Ohio — thank you.
2024-11-15 — ATRI Insurance Cost Benchmark
Fleet Economics page: The insurance cost-per-mile benchmark was quoted from the prior ATRI survey cycle. The 2024 ATRI/ATA Operational Costs of Trucking survey reports a higher average premium cost per mile, reflecting the double-digit premium increases carriers absorbed through 2023–2024. Updated to the current-cycle figure and the surrounding paragraph now notes the year-over-year trend, because a benchmark that ignores the insurance market's recent behavior isn't a benchmark — it's nostalgia.
Standing Commitments
Three rules govern this log. Entries are never removed — a corrected page is fixed, but its correction stays on the record. Entries state the old value and the new value whenever a figure changed, so a reader who acted on the old number can see exactly how far off it was. And corrections that affect paid guides trigger a guide revision plus an email to recent buyers when the fix is material to a filing or a budget.
The sources that keep this log short are on the Methodology Notes page. The discipline is simple: cite real sources, cross-check before publishing, and when the process fails anyway, admit it in writing with a date on it. If a compliance publisher won't show you its corrections, ask what it's hiding. This is ours.