Advertising & Affiliate Disclosure

Effective date: November 1, 2026

This site is free to read because of ads and, in the future, paid links. We may earn money from both, at no extra cost to you, and that doesn’t decide what we say.

Ads

We show ads from Google AdSense. Every ad is labeled “Advertisement.” Ads don’t appear on our About, author, Editorial Standards, Contact or legal pages. We don’t choose the individual ads Google shows, and an ad isn’t a recommendation from us.

Paid links

As of the effective date above, this site has no affiliate links. If we add them, some guides may include links to products that fit the topic, such as fleet telematics, ELD or maintenance software. If you buy through one of these links, the company may pay us a commission. These links will:

• sit inside a box labeled “Affiliate links”,
• have the words “paid link” right next to them, and
• come with a note near the top of the page: “We may earn a commission from paid links on this page, at no extra cost to you. Our advice isn’t for sale.”

No insurance, lending or legal referrals

We don’t accept commissions or referral fees from insurance carriers, insurance brokers, quote marketplaces, lenders or law firms.

Vendor claims and referral programs

Some fleet software companies run customer referral programs (for example, gift cards for referring another business). We are not enrolled in any such program as of the effective date above. When a guide mentions what a vendor says about its product or program, we quote it, link the vendor’s page and show the date we checked it. That is the vendor’s claim, not our test result.

What we promise

• We recommend a product only if we’d recommend it without the commission, and only where it fits the topic.
• We point out when a step is free at the government agency (for example, a USDOT number from FMCSA or a recall lookup at NHTSA), so you don’t pay a middleman by mistake.
• We don’t accept payment for reviews or rankings. If a company ever gives us a free product or pays us, we’ll say so on that page.
• We don’t put prices in affiliate boxes because they change. Check the company’s page.

Our own company

True Fleet Guide is made by Top Rank ROI LLC, which also sells website and marketing services to local businesses. If we mention those services on this site, we label it clearly as “our own service.”

Amazon

If we join the Amazon Associates program, we’ll add Amazon’s required statement here.

Questions

Email rolandoc@toprankroi.com or use our contact page.

Sources

• 16 CFR Part 255: Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising (checked October 31, 2026)