Corrections
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- Each correction states what was wrong and what the accurate position is.
Published corrections
- 17/09/2026HGV MOT cost data page (thrivefleet.co.uk/data/hgv-test-fees): our answer to "What does an HGV retest cost?" gave £35 for a two-axle lorry without saying that is the DVSA fee at an authorised testing facility, which may also add its own service charge. A retest within 14 days at a DVSA test centre costs £49. We have corrected the answer.
- 17/09/20261 July 2026 (issue 1), "HGV safety inspection fees rise from £55 to £70 from 6 July": we described the change as a rise in HGV safety inspection fees, and credited SMMT as the source. That was wrong. £70 for HGVs, £50 for trailers and £90 for buses and coaches are the new maximum service charges an authorised testing facility can add to DVSA's fee for the annual test, for the use of its premises, set by DVSA from 6 July 2026 (DVSA consultation outcome: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changes-to-hgv-bus-and-trailer-mot-centre-service-charges). DVSA does not set a price for safety inspections. We have corrected the story's headline and text, a link to it in our 3 September story on driver health, and our Insight "What tachograph non-compliance actually costs in 2026", which repeated the error and used it to estimate the cost of quarterly inspections.
- 18/08/2026Issue 8 (18 August 2026) reported UK pump prices as petrol 120.0p and diesel 123.4p a litre. Those are December 2017 figures. Our weekly pull from the DESNZ road fuel price series picked up the archived 2003 to 2017 file after the department changed how it publishes the current series, and nothing in the process caught that the dates were nine years out. The correct figures for the week to 17 August 2026 are petrol 161.1p a litre, down 1.0p on the week, and diesel 181.4p a litre, down 0.6p. The same story described 95.07p for petrol and 97.89p for diesel in September 2005 as the highest recorded in that series. Those are real prices for that week, but they are not the series high: it peaked at 142.17p for petrol and 148.04p for diesel in April 2012. The story and the fuel tracker have been corrected. The weekly pull now chooses the series by its most recent data rather than by filename, and refuses to publish one that is more than three weeks old.