Editorial Policy

LaneMath publishes practical, field-oriented explanations for trucking carriers. Pages favor clear definitions, written-term checks, cautious example math, and conservative wording where payment, broker risk, accessorial approval, or compliance context is involved.

Editorial scope

LaneMath is written as educational dispatch support. A page may explain how to compare two offers, what to ask a broker, or which records are useful for detention or billing. It should not tell a carrier what rate to accept, which broker to use, how to interpret a contract, or how to satisfy a legal or regulatory obligation.

Review process

Before publication, content is checked for unsupported market claims, overconfident payment language, missing disclaimers, thin explanations, broken links, and repeated template wording. Pages that involve broker identity, payment, accessorials, or compliance context are written with extra caution and are tied to either official public references or a clearly labeled editorial methodology source.

Review also checks whether the page can be used by a carrier in a real workflow: before a broker call, before signing a confirmation, during a delay, or while preparing a billing packet. Pages that cannot answer a practical question should be revised rather than expanded with filler.

Editorial quality rules

• No freight quotes, pricing feeds, broker recommendations, or promises about what a lane should pay.
• No copied paid load board data or private freight marketplace data.
• Examples must be labeled as hypothetical or educational.
• Official sources are used only for public background, not as freight rate sources.
• Payment, broker-risk, accessorial, and compliance topics must avoid guarantees and must point readers back to written terms, official records, or professional review when appropriate.

Updates and corrections

Each page carries an updated date. When public source pages, terminology, or editorial methodology changes, affected pages should be reviewed before the updated date is changed. If a page makes a practical statement that has become too broad, too current-sounding, or too close to advice, the wording should be narrowed rather than padded with more sources.

Correction requests can be sent to [email protected]. A useful correction includes the page URL, the sentence in question, and the public source or load-document context that should be reviewed.