For independent carriers & small trucking fleets
That broker agreement you're about to sign could cancel your right to get paid
Carriers who sign payment-waiver clauses lose their shipper fallback when a broker disappears. ClauseGuard finds those clauses before you sign.
Today
A new broker sends you their carrier packet at 6pm before a 7am load. You skim the agreement, sign the DocuSign, and move. Six weeks later they go dark — and you find out you waived your right to bill the shipper directly on page 4, clause 12(b).
With ClauseGuard
You paste the agreement in, ClauseGuard highlights the waiver language in under a minute, tells you exactly what to cross out, and you counter before the load ever moves.
Conceptual — the workflow ClauseGuard is being built to handle.
What we keep seeing
This problem surfaces consistently across trucking forums and carrier Facebook groups: independent owner-operators describe signing broker packets under time pressure, discovering shipper-waiver language only after a non-payment dispute, and finding they have no legal foothold to collect directly from the shipper — exactly the scenario these clauses are designed to create.
Observed across public operator forums — the reason this page exists.
Without it
A new broker sends you their carrier packet at 6pm before a 7am load. You skim the agreement, sign the DocuSign, and move. Six weeks later they go dark — and you find out you waived your right to bill the shipper directly on page 4, clause 12(b).
With ClauseGuard
You paste the agreement in, ClauseGuard highlights the waiver language in under a minute, tells you exactly what to cross out, and you counter before the load ever moves.
We're building a purpose-built clause scanner trained on the specific payment and liability language brokers use to shift risk onto carriers.
How ClauseGuard works
Paste or upload the agreement
Drop in the broker's carrier packet PDF or paste the contract text — works with any broker's format.
ClauseGuard flags the risk
The tool identifies shipper-waiver clauses, unfavorable payment windows, and liability-shift language with a plain-English explanation of what each one means for you.
Get your redline
See exactly which clauses to strike, which to push back on, and what replacement language protects your right to collect — so you negotiate from a position of knowledge.
Straight answers
Can I use ClauseGuard today? +
Not quite yet — we're building it now. Early users get first access when it launches and their specific contract pain points directly shape what we prioritize. If shipper-waiver clauses have burned you, sign up and tell us the details.
What happens after I sign up? +
You'll get a short follow-up from us within a few days asking about the specific agreements and clause types that have cost you the most. When the tool is ready for early access, you'll hear first — no marketing blasts in between.
Who's behind ClauseGuard? +
An independent builder who went deep on carrier payment disputes, broker-carrier agreement law, and the FMCSA's broker transparency rules after seeing how routinely these clauses get slipped past small carriers at onboarding.
Can't I just have a lawyer review every agreement? +
A transport attorney costs $200–$400/hour and most carriers aren't calling one at 6pm before a morning load. ClauseGuard is designed to give you the specific clause-level flags fast enough to actually use before you sign — legal review for edge cases, ClauseGuard for every agreement in your daily workflow.
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