Standard · v2026.1

How we rank, and how we correct

We sell ground transport and we write about the people who provide it. That overlap demands a standard, stated plainly.

Independence

The journal is editorially independent of any advertising arrangement. No operator can buy a place, a rank, or an omission. We are a working desk, so we appear in our own rankings — when we do, we say so, and we hold ourselves to the same evidence we ask of everyone else.

Sourcing

Operator facts — fleet, service area, credentials, accreditations, years in service — are taken from the operator's own published material and from neutral registries and trade bodies where they exist. We prefer a checkable credential (a Better Business Bureau accreditation, a trade-association membership, a regulator's license) to a self-reported star rating. When a claim cannot be verified, we either leave it out or label it as the operator's own statement.

The planner's estimates

The roadshow timing planner is a model, not a measurement. It is built from public distance data and a New York congestion curve, and it is labelled throughout as planning guidance rather than a quote or a guarantee. We update the model when its assumptions drift from what our own dispatch sees on the street.

Conflicts of interest

Our commercial interest is in earning corporate ground-transport work. That is disclosed on every page by the simple fact that this is an operator's site. Our rankings still name competitors we rate highly, because a recommendation is only worth reading if it is willing to point away from us when another operator is the better fit.

What we will not publish

  • Fabricated operators, fabricated credentials, or invented review counts.
  • Pay-for-placement rankings of any kind.
  • Personal data from planner inputs — they never leave the browser.

Corrections

If a brief is wrong — an operator's detail, a credential, a timing claim — tell us at desk@nycorporatecarservice.com and we will fix it and note the change. As an independent standard published from 2017, our corrections log opens empty; we will populate it as verdict-changing corrections are made, rather than backfill it for show.

Changelog

  • v2026.1 — Initial public editorial standard for Corporate Car Desk NYC.
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