Editorial No. 01 Topics and pitches

Write for us

Two ways to help: suggest a topic drivers need covered, or pitch an article you want to write. The rules come first, because they decide what can be published.

02 What we publish

Guides a driver can act on

Trucker Route publishes guides on the rules and road conditions that cost a driver money or a day when they are misread: weight and length limits, chain laws, speed limits, fuel tax and apportioned plates, the Canadian border, mountain passes. A fact in an article has to come from the source that sets it: a state statute, the eCFR, a state DOT, FMCSA or the National Weather Service.

  • Yes: a rule explained by someone who has worked under it, a route or a pass described by someone who drives it, a change in a state law and what it means in the cab.
  • No: sponsored posts, articles written to place a link, product round-ups written for a vendor, and text you did not write yourself.
03 Suggest a topic

Know a topic drivers need covered?

You do not need an account or a draft. Tell us the topic and why it matters to a driver, and the editors put it on the list. Leave an email if you want to hear when it is written.

04 From pitch to page

How a pitch becomes an article

Nothing is published automatically. An accepted pitch is where the work starts, not where it ends.

  1. You pitch

    Signed in, so an editor has an address to answer and a person these terms apply to. A title, what the article is about, who you are, and any conflict of interest. A draft helps but is not required.

  2. An editor reads it

    A person, not a filter. You hear back at the address on your account, and the pitch page in your account shows where it got to.

  3. Every claim is checked

    An accepted article is checked line by line against the statute, the agency or the DOT that sets each rule, the same check our signed guides get. A claim that cannot be traced to a primary source comes out.

  4. You see the edit

    We edit for accuracy and to our style guide, and send you the edited text before anything goes live. You can still withdraw at that point.

  5. It is published under your name

    With "Reviewed by" and the name of the editor who answers for it. If a fact turns out wrong later, we fix it, date the fix, and list it under corrections.

05 Links

Where links may go

Inside an article, links go to primary sources only: the statute, the agency page, the DOT notice. Not to your company, not to a product, not to another blog.

A link to you or your business belongs on your author profile, and it carries nofollow there. A profile is made by hand once the editors have confirmed who you are and you have agreed to what it says. Signing up for an account never creates one.

06 Contributor terms

Contributor terms, version contributor-terms-2026-10-02

  1. The text is your own work and has not been published anywhere else.
  2. You told us, in the pitch, about any company, product or service in the article that you work for, own or are paid by.
  3. The editors may check, cut and rewrite the text for accuracy, clarity and style, and may decline it at any point before it is published. You see the edited version first.
  4. Links in the article go to primary sources only. A link to you or your business goes on your author profile, with nofollow.
  5. If we publish it, you keep the copyright and give Trucker Route a lasting, non-exclusive right to publish it, keep it on the site, and correct it when a fact changes or turns out wrong.
  6. You can withdraw a pitch from your account until an editor decides on it, and an accepted article until it is published, by writing to the editor.
07 Pitch an article

Want to write it yourself?

Pitching needs an account, so an editor has somewhere to answer. Sign in with Google or with a code sent to any email address, and you land on the pitch form.

Pitch an article
08 Who reads it

The authors of the guides on this site. See how we check a page, and who the authors are.