Corrections

Anything built from documents can misread a document. When that happens here, the fix is made on the page and the record of the fix stays visible.

What gets corrected

• A factual error: a wrong number, date, name, statute, vehicle class, or location.
• A misreading of a source, including a figure quoted accurately but used to support something the source does not say.
• A citation problem: a link to the wrong document, an unattributed figure, a source that no longer resolves.
• A figure overtaken by newer data, where the article's reference year is no longer the best available.

Typographical fixes, formatting repairs, and clarifications that do not change the meaning of a claim are made without a note. Everything in the list above gets one.

How a correction appears

The corrected text is amended in place and a dated correction note is added at the foot of the article. The note says what the article previously stated, what it states now, and where the corrected information comes from. It is written to be useful on its own, so a reader who arrives a year later can see what changed without comparing versions. The page's updated date changes at the same time.

If an error is serious enough that the article's argument no longer stands, the note says that too. Pulling a page quietly is not how that gets handled.

What a useful report contains

Reports are far easier to act on when they carry four things:

1. The exact URL of the page, including the section path, rather than the article title alone.
2. The passage as it appears, quoted directly, so the specific sentence is unambiguous. Pages get edited, and a paraphrase can drift away from the text in question.
3. The proposed correction, written as the wording that should replace it.
4. A source that can be checked. A primary document is strongest: the regulation, the data table, the agency publication, the specification sheet, with a link or a precise citation. "This is wrong, everyone in the industry knows it" cannot be verified and cannot be published.

Reports that arrive without a checkable source are read, but they can only prompt a re-examination of the original material. They cannot on their own change what a page says.

Sending a report

Email hello@thetruckproject.com with the four details above. Include the quoted passage and source link in the same message so the issue can be checked without reconstructing it. The contact page also covers general editorial questions.

No turnaround time is offered here, and no undertaking is made that a given report will produce a change. Some reports will be about matters where the sources genuinely disagree, and the outcome in those cases may be a change to how the uncertainty is described rather than a change to the figure.

The standards these corrections are measured against are set out in the editorial policy.