Acceptance of Terms
By using the website at https://www.fdcocen.buzz or by asking the yard to coordinate freight, you agree to the terms set out on this page. These terms form a binding agreement between you and FDC Oxen, Inc. Please read them fully and keep them in hand. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, please do not use the website or the services described here.
These terms apply to every visitor, every independent shipper, every receiver, and every partner haulier. Where a separate transport contract names specific freight terms, that contract stands alongside this page, and where they differ, the freight contract governs the movement of freight while these terms govern the use of the website and our general business relationship.
Who We Are
FDC Oxen, Inc. is a freight coordination business operating out of central Texas. We provide regional freight consolidation and last-mile delivery coordination for independent shippers, drawing together partial loads into fuller trailers and overseeing the final leg to each receiver door.
- Company name: FDC Oxen, Inc.
- Company address: 8222 N Lamar Blvd Ste F58, Austin - 78753-5962, United States (US).
- Contact email: helpdesk@fdcocen.buzz.
- Telephone: +13266976200.
- Website: https://www.fdcocen.buzz.
The site and the coordination work are developed and run under the developer name FDCOxen. Whenever this page says we, us or our, it refers to FDC Oxen, Inc.
What This Agreement Covers
This agreement does two separate jobs. First, it sets the rules for anyone who reads or uses this website, including the content, the contact tools and the links to the outside. Second, it outlines the general conditions under which you may ask the yard to consolidate freight, coordinate a run, or deliver a load. Neither job is more important than the other, and both apply at the same time.
Nothing on this page overrides a written bill of lading, a signed waybill, or the liability rules that United States federal law applies to surface freight. Where a statute controls a point, the statute wins over any sentence here that tries to soften it.
Use of This Website
We grant you a limited, non-transferable right to view and use this website for lawful purposes connected to freight. You may browse the pages, read the service descriptions, and send a message to the yard. You may not take the site apart, look for weaknesses by force, scrape its text in bulk, copy its design into another site, or use it in a way that burdens our hosts or fools other users.
You promise not to use this website to spread harmful software, to attempt to reach systems that are not yours, to send a flood of automated messages, or to collect information about our staff or our customers without permission. If you cause damage by breaking this rule, you are responsible for it.
Accurate Information
Good freight planning begins with truthful details. When you ask us to move or coordinate a shipment, you promise that the information you give us is accurate, current and complete. That includes the pickup address, the delivery address, the pallet count, the weight, the pickup and delivery windows, and the name of the person who will sign for the freight.
If you give us a wrong address, a wrong number of pallets, or a wrong weight, the run may be delayed, the trailer may be loaded incorrectly, or the job may need to be redone at an extra cost that you would have avoided. Please check every address twice before you book. A load that is given clear facts moves smoothly; a load that is given guesses moves slowly.
Bookings and Quotes
A booking is a request for the yard to include your freight in a run. A quote is an estimate of the price for that run, based on the details you provided on the day you asked. A quote is not a guarantee unless we agree in writing that the number is fixed for a stated period. Freight prices can change with fuel, with the number of stops, and with the extra time a complication causes.
When the desk confirms your run in writing, that confirmation locks your place on the trailer, and you accept that the scheduled window depends on the whole run keeping pace. If your freight is not ready at the pickup window, or the address cannot receive it, the run may wait or the load may shift to another day, and any extra cost is yours to carry.
Rates and Payment
We charge for the work of consolidating, loading, hauling and confirming your freight, and we are clear about that charge before the work begins. Payment terms are set out in our invoice and depend on the arrangement with each customer. Some shippers pay by card at booking, some by terms set in a signed agreement, and some on delivery against an invoice.
Freight does not move on a promise or a half-paid charge. We may decline a booking or hold a trailer until payment details are settled. A fee may apply if a run is cancelled after the trailer is committed, because a yoked deck that loses one load may still leave with the space unfilled. We will always tell you about an extra charge before we add it where time allows.
Freight and Liability
United States law sets a framework of liability for goods carried by interstate surface carriers, and we operate within that framework. What we can say plainly is that we treat every trucking line, every trailer and every proof-of-delivery record as something to protect. We load carefully, we tarp what needs a cover, and we confirm with a signature that freight arrived at the door of the receiver who asked for it.
That said, we are not an insurer of your goods. Events such as severe weather, a road closure, a breakdown or damage that happens outside our care are outside any single party hands. Freight valuation and declared value matter: the limits that apply to a claim are set by the shipping agreement and common carrier rules, not by a general sentence on this page.
Consolidation Rules
The strength of our yard is that several independent shippers share one deck. Sharing means that everyone follows a few rules so that nobody spoils the run for the group. Consolidated freight must match the declared weight, must fit the reserved floor space, and must be ready at the agreed time so that the whole trailer does not wait on one pallet.
When freight is consolidated, the trailer leaves on the run that serves the most partners on time. A piece that arrives late may miss the window and ride on the next scheduled deck. Every partner in a consolidation understands that the group depends on each member keeping the schedule, which is exactly why our yard plans the line with care and confirms each drop before the day is through.
Customer Conduct
We treat every customer with the respect a working yard shows every lane, and we ask for the same courtesy in return. No one should direct abusive language at our drivers, our desk staff or our partners. No one should ask a driver to take part in an unsafe act, to break the hours rules, or to move freight the law forbids.
We may decline or stop working with a customer who endangers a driver, gives false information about a load, or refuses to settle a charge that the yard has made with a clear quote. Stopping service early is a last resort, but it protects the honest shippers who share the team, and we always explain the reason when we take that step.
Prohibited and Restricted Cargo
Some goods cannot ride in our consolidated lanes, either because the law forbids them or because they need equipment we do not run. You may not offer us goods that are illegal to transport, nor goods that would put a driver, a trailer or another load at unreasonable risk. Restricted cargo includes regulated dangerous goods, firearms, and temperature-sensitive freight that our trailers are not equipped to keep.
If freight does not match its declared description, or if we discover a prohibited item on a trailer after a load is closed, we may stop the run, set the item aside, and notify the authorities where the law requires it. Any delay, fine or damage that follows an undeclared item is the responsibility of the party that offered it.
Force Majeure and Impacts
Even the best-run yard cannot command the weather or the roads. Flooding that closes a bridge, a wild storm that stalls a freeway, a power failure at a receiving dock, or an order from a public authority can delay a load through no fault of ours. When such an impact occurs, we will do what any good team does: we will tell you quickly, protect the freight as best we can, and get the load moving again as soon as the road allows.
A delay caused by a force majeure event does not itself break this agreement, and it does not by itself mean we owe you damages. We will waive or reduce a fee where fairness demands it, but we cannot guarantee a minute that is not ours to control.
Maintenance and Availability
We keep this website running as an honest service, but no website is always available. There may be short periods when the site is down for maintenance, when our email is delayed, or when a page needs attention. We will do our best to make such gaps brief and to fix faults promptly when we learn of them.
Because the site is a window into a working business rather than a replacement for a phone call, the desk remains reachable by telephone at +13266976200 during office hours. If the website is ever slow, a direct call to the yard office often gets an answer faster than waiting for the page to load.
Intellectual Property
The text, images, layout, colours, brand name and design of this website belong to FDC Oxen, Inc. or to the developer FDCOxen who created it. These assets are protected by copyright and trademark law. You may read them and share the address of this site, but you may not copy the pages onto another site, reuse the code, or present our design as your own.
We welcome an honest link to https://www.fdcocen.buzz. We do not welcome a thin copy of the site dressed up as a different business. If you are unsure whether a use is allowed, send a note to helpdesk@fdcocen.buzz and we will answer clearly.
Disclaimers
We provide this website on an as available and as is basis. That means we do not promise that every page is free of error, that the site will never be interrupted, or that every statement here covers every rule in your jurisdiction. The descriptions of our services are truthful summaries, not engineering specifications or legal advice.
Nothing we publish is legal, tax or financial advice. If you need advice about shipping regulations, insurance, customs or liability in a particular state, please ask a qualified professional who can apply the law to your facts.
Limits of Liability
Where the law allows, our total liability under these terms is limited to the amount you paid us for the freight coordination in question, or to one hundred dollars if no amount was paid. We are not liable for lost profits, lost business, or indirect or incidental damages that arise out of your use of this website or a delay in a run.
This limit does not reduce the duties that common carrier law places on us for cargo that is in our care, and it does not apply to damage caused by our own wilful misconduct. Every line on this page is meant to work with the law, and a sentence that a court finds unlawful is severed rather than spread across the whole agreement.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, hold harmless and indemnify FDC Oxen, Inc., its staff, its drivers and its chosen partners from any claim, loss, cost or legal expense that arises out of your breach of these terms, your misuse of the website, or your submission of freight information that turns out to be false, unlawful or incomplete.
This clause protects our hard-working team from being pulled into a dispute that is really about a customer who broke the rules. It does not give us a free pass to treat our own obligations carelessly; it simply asks the party at fault to bear the cost of its fault.
Privacy and Data
Our handling of your personal information is described in our separate privacy policy, which you can open from this page and from every footer on the site. That policy explains what we collect, why we collect it, how we share it, and how you can reach the yard about your data.
These terms and the privacy policy are meant to be read as one picture. If a question is about your rights over your information, the privacy policy leads. If a question is about how our service behaves, these terms lead. Both work together to describe a yard that is honest about freight and honest about data.
Governing Law
These terms and your use of this website are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its rules on conflict of laws. The yard is based in Travis County, near the city of Austin, and that is the natural home for any question about how this business runs.
Nothing here changes any right a federal court would apply to a shipment that travels across a state line under United States freight law. Where a matter belongs in the federal forum, the dispute will follow the court that has lawful power over it.
Dispute Resolution
Before you take a disagreement to a court, please give the yard a fair chance to put it right. Write to helpdesk@fdcocen.buzz, explain the issue, and give us a working day or two to look at the records. Most freight problems are solved by a clear look at the waybill, the times and the proof of delivery, not by a lawsuit.
If a dispute cannot be settled by a friendly look at the records, you agree that the state and federal courts serving Travis County, Texas have exclusive jurisdiction, and you waive any objection to that forum. We believe that a fair process held near the yard is the most practical way to sort out a disagreement about a Texas haul.
Severability
If any part of these terms is found to be unlawful, void or unenforceable, that part is cut away and the rest of the agreement stays in force. A single bad sentence should not drag down a page that otherwise works well for everyone who ships with us.
Where a part is removed, we will replace it with the closest lawful rule that achieves the same honest purpose. This clause is our way of saying that the spirit of the terms matters more than any single wording accident.
Waiver and Changes
If we do not act on a breach of these terms at once, that delay does not mean we give up the right to act later. A waiver only happens when we say so in writing and sign it. Our silence is patience, not forgiveness of a rule that remains in force.
We may revise these terms as the yard grows or as the law changes. When we do, we will update the date at the top of this page and, where the change matters to active partners, we will draw attention to it. Continued use of the site after the change means you accept the revised terms.
Whole Agreement
These terms, together with any written freight contract and the separate privacy policy, make up the whole agreement between you and FDC Oxen, Inc. about your use of this website and our coordination work. No earlier conversation, email flap or handshake changes what is written here without a signed note to that effect.
We want every lane to be dealt with on paper and in good faith. A clear record protects you from a forgotten promise and protects us from a mistaken one, and a yard built on clear records is a yard you can count on next week and next season.