Our principles
- Data first. Pages about places are generated from our data set. If a value is missing, we leave the sentence out rather than guess.
- Primary sources for rules. Time limits, weight limits and other legal rules are taken from the statute, regulation or agency page and linked next to the claim. Blogs and aggregator lists are never used as a source for a rule.
- No paid placement. No business can pay to be listed, ranked higher or described more favorably.
- Honest about limits. If we don’t know something – for example whether a state has a time limit – we say so.
How pages are created
State, interstate and category pages are built automatically from our data at build time: counts, lists, distances and amenities come straight from the data set described on our data sources page. The surrounding text is written as templates by a person and only uses values that exist for that page.
Pages with too little data to be useful are kept out of search engines (marked “noindex”) until the data improves.
How guides are written
Guides are written by Sinan Cekic. Each guide starts from the questions drivers actually search for, then collects the rules from official sources: state codes and administrative regulations, state DOT pages, and federal agencies such as FMCSA and FHWA. Every rule in the text links to its source in the source list at the end.
Where our own data answers a question – such as how far apart rest areas are – we calculate the numbers from our data set and explain how.
Use of AI tools
We use AI tools to help with research, drafting and programming. Every published text is reviewed by a person, and every legal rule is checked against its primary source before publication. AI tools are never used as a source of facts.
Corrections
If you find an error, please use the report form or contact us. We check every report. Data errors are fixed in the next data update; errors in guides are corrected and the “Updated” date is changed.
Updates
Location data is refreshed regularly from our sources. Guides are reviewed at least once a year and whenever we learn that a rule has changed.