Every roadside inspection you are part of goes into a federal database under your name — not just your carrier's. It stays there for three years, and any employer you apply to can pull it before they call you back.
Records get attached to the wrong driver. Citations that a court threw out stay on the report anyway. Defects fixed at the roadside remain listed. When that happens you can challenge it, for free — and most challenges fail for reasons that have nothing to do with whether the record was right.
Filing is free and open to any driver. The difficulty is not persuading anyone you were wronged — it is filing in a way that gets reviewed at all. These are the reasons requests get dismissed, and every one of them is a paperwork problem rather than a disagreement about the facts.
A crash, an inspection, and a citation are three separate record types with three separate review paths. Filing a citation dispute as an inspection challenge sends it to an office that cannot act on it.
Challenges have deadlines tied to the record date. A correct challenge filed late is dismissed without anyone assessing whether the record was accurate.
Reviewers need the specific artifact that contradicts the record — the ELD extract, the repair receipt with its date, the dismissed citation’s court disposition. A written account of what happened, without the document, is not evidence.
Arguing that a violation was unfair is not grounds. Showing that the recorded fact is incorrect — wrong driver, wrong vehicle, wrong date, a citation later dismissed — is.
Filing on these grounds is the fastest way to a denial, and a denial makes the record harder to revisit later.
All of this is free and goes directly through FMCSA. You do not need an account with us, or with anyone, to do any of it.
Free, direct from FMCSA. It lists every roadside inspection from the last three years and every crash from the last five. Most drivers have never read theirs, and it is the same report a prospective employer sees.
Request your PSP report →Confirm the driver, vehicle, date, and location on each entry are yours and are right. Errors are ordinary — records get attached to the wrong driver, entered twice, or keep a citation that a court later dismissed.
For a dismissed citation, the court disposition. For a repaired defect, the dated receipt. For a logbook dispute, the ELD extract covering that period. The document is what the review turns on.
FMCSA’s official channel, free to use. Pick the correct record category, stay inside the filing window, attach the evidence, and state plainly which recorded fact is wrong.
Open DataQs →Reviews are handled by the state agency that submitted the record. A denial is often a request for stronger evidence rather than a final judgment on the facts, and it can be refiled with the missing document.
Everything above is the process as it stands today, and you can work through it yourself without us. What we are building is the part that goes wrong most often: reading an inspection report and telling you, line by line, what each violation means, how long it follows you, and whether it is the kind of entry that can be challenged on procedure.
To be straight about where this stands: it is not built yet, and we are not taking payment for it. We are not attorneys and this is not legal advice — the filing is yours, made in your name, through FMCSA's own system. If you want to know when it is ready, leave your email.
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