How to file a DataQs Request for Data Review

File the request yourself: a short checklist

• Sign in for your role. Motor carriers first access DataQs through their FMCSA Portal account: select DataQs under Available FMCSA Systems, then Go. Drivers and Public/Industry users follow the DataQs registration path through Login.gov; do not assume every role uses the carrier path.
• From My DataQs, choose Add a Request, then Inspection and the request type that matches your situation. The category mapping below uses the March 2025 official definitions.
• Identify the inspection by report number, State and inspection date; identify the disputed violation or field. Explain what is wrong, why, and the correction you request.
• Attach relevant evidence for that request type. For a citation outcome, identify the citation number and associated violations and provide verifiable court-disposition records or a direct official court-results link. A record-error request needs evidence of that error, not an unrelated court document.
• Review the information and attachments in Ready to Submit, read the certification, and submit from your own account. Save the acknowledgement and request number; return to My DataQs and Response History to track the response. Use Take Action when responding or requesting the next review stage.
• If you disagree with a State decision, use the applicable next review stage and explain why its stated reasons are incorrect. Read the deadlines guide for the effective date, response periods and appeal requirements.

• Match your situation to a request type
• State review stages and your response deadlines

Optional self-serve RoadsideProof software

You can complete these steps without buying RoadsideProof. The following sections explain the optional automated document-completeness check and fixed-template draft; those are separate from DataQs registration and submission.

Review the inspection and the record

Start with the inspection report and the violation being reviewed. The free RoadsideProof report shows the code, the description, whether it was an out-of-service violation, and the inspection it came from.

Identify the Inspection category

A Request for Data Review states a request type. RoadsideProof supports a subset of the Inspection group, using shorter product labels. The category guide maps those labels to the official March 2025 request types; it is not a list of every DataQs option.

Prepare the documents for that category

For an inspection request, upload the inspection report and supporting documents. For a CPDP crash request, upload the police accident report (PAR) and supporting evidence. Check each required value against its source and confirm it.

The product's category list requires the inspection report for inspection-record corrections. The carrier-identity category also requires proof the inspection was not yours; the driver-information category also requires the driver's record. The citation-outcome category requires the citation itself and the court disposition.

Review and confirm the draft fields

Nothing reaches your draft until you confirm it. A field you did not confirm cannot appear in the text — that is enforced in code, not by review.

RoadsideProof software assembles a draft from a fixed template and only fields you confirmed. Its automated check covers completeness against the documents you upload.

File from your own account and sign it yourself

We do not file for you. You file from your own account and you sign it, and that signature carries 18 U.S.C. 1001.

Any Request for Data Review you submit is your filing. You sign it, and that signature is made under penalty of 18 U.S.C. 1001. You are responsible for the accuracy of every statement in it, including statements assembled from fields you confirmed in this software.

We never ask for your FMCSA Portal, DataQs, or Login.gov credentials. There is no step in the flow where you would hand them over.

The agency decision

We do not promise an outcome. The burden of proof is on the filer. The revised State DataQs process applies to requests submitted on or after September 18, 2026. It is not retroactive and does not establish deadlines for Federal reviews. Its stages are Initial Review, Reconsideration, and Final Review. FMCSA considers the State's RDR decision final after Final Review is completed; this is separate from a court's disposition of a citation.