The half of the brief that comes from you.
Every issue asks one question and prints what came back. But the brief is better when the traffic runs both ways all the time, not once a fortnight — so this page is open.
There are three things worth sending, and none of them takes more than a line. Nothing is published with your name or your company on it unless you say so in the message.
Every issue ends with one question about something in that issue. Reply with a line and it may run next issue, attributed to something like “9-truck shop, Manassas” and nothing more.
Answer this issue's question →This is the useful one. If there's a rule you can't get a straight answer on, a price increase you suspect isn't real, or a programme nobody will explain — tell us and we'll do the digging. If it stands up, it runs as an item, and you get the answer either way.
Ask us to look into something →Something moving in your county we'd otherwise miss. A permit change, an inspector's new position, a competitor bought out, a distributor letter doing the rounds. Local intelligence is the part we can't get from the trade press.
Send a tip →Five prompts, all optional. Nothing is sent anywhere until you press the button — it opens your own email with the answers filled in, so you can see exactly what goes and edit it first.
No form data leaves this page. The button builds an email in your own client and you send it, or don't.
We read every one. We don't add you to anything for writing in, we don't pass your address on, and we don't follow up with a sales call — if you want to talk to us about the products, the links are all over the brief already.