Terms of service

1. Acceptance

These terms form a binding agreement between MLJ, SASU, a French simplified joint stock company registered under SIREN 934 769 837 and publisher of DeadheadMath, and the business that opens an account. By opening an account, by using the application, or by sending a request through the form on this site and then taking a subscription, you accept these terms on behalf of that business. If you do not accept them, do not use the service. The version in force is the one published on this page on the day you use the service.

2. What the service does

DeadheadMath is a web application that scores freight offers for owner operators and small motor carriers. It calculates revenue per total mile by combining the loaded miles of a trip, the deadhead miles required to reach the shipper or to leave the consignee, fuel consumed at the miles per gallon and price per gallon you supply, tolls on the routed leg, and the fixed cost per day derived from the cost sheet you build for each truck. It stores the loads you score as lane history, and it reconciles settlement statements you enter against the loads they relate to.

The output is an estimate produced from figures you provide and from routing and reference data. It is a decision support tool. It is not accounting, tax, legal or compliance advice, it does not book freight, it does not invoice brokers on your behalf, and it does not guarantee that any load will be profitable. Decisions about which loads to accept, what to charge and how to run the truck remain entirely yours.

3. Accounts and eligibility

An account may be opened only by a business or a self employed operator, acting for commercial purposes, that holds the authority required to transport freight in the United States. You must be at least eighteen years old and authorized to bind the business you are signing up for. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information in your account, for the security of your login credentials, and for everything done under those credentials. Tell us at once if you believe an account has been accessed by someone who should not have it.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to resell, sublicense or rent access to DeadheadMath, not to share a single login among people who work for different carriers, and not to scrape, copy or reverse engineer the application or its rate history. You agree not to upload content that is unlawful or that you have no right to share, not to interfere with the operation of the service, and not to attempt to access another customer's data. Automated access outside a documented interface is not permitted. Accounts used to build a competing rate database may be closed without refund.

5. Plans, billing and price changes

Three plans are offered. One Truck costs $19 per month. Two Trucks costs $39 per month. Small Fleet costs $89 per month and covers up to ten trucks. All prices are in United States dollars, exclude any tax that may apply to your business, and cover unlimited load scoring on every plan. Subscriptions are billed monthly in advance from the day the account opens, and each period renews automatically until it is cancelled. There is no setup fee, no minimum term and no charge per load scored.

If you outgrow a plan, moving up takes effect immediately and the difference is prorated to the end of the current month. Moving down takes effect at the start of the next billing month. We may change plan prices with at least thirty days of notice sent to the account email address; the new price applies from your next renewal after that notice, and you may cancel before it takes effect. Failure of a payment suspends access until it is resolved, and the account and its data are retained for sixty days before deletion.

6. Cancellation

You may cancel at any time from the account page, without giving a reason and without speaking to anyone. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing month already paid for, and no further payment is taken. Partial months are not refunded, except where the law requires it or where the service was unavailable for an extended period through our fault. After cancellation you keep the ability to export your lane history and settlement records for sixty days. We may terminate an account for serious or repeated breach of section 4, with notice and with a prorated refund of the unused part of the current month.

7. Your data

Cost sheets, scored loads, lane history, settlement documents and everything else you enter remain your property. We process that content only to operate the service for you, to support you when you ask, and to keep backups. We do not sell it, and we do not publish it in a form that identifies your business. Aggregate lane statistics shown inside the application are built only from carriers who have chosen to contribute and carry no company identifier. Export of your data to a spreadsheet is available at any time, and deletion on request is honored within thirty days.

8. Availability

We aim to keep DeadheadMath available around the clock and we target monthly availability of 99.5 percent outside announced maintenance. Maintenance that requires downtime is announced by email at least two days ahead and scheduled for the quiet part of the week. We do not promise uninterrupted service, and availability depends in part on the hosting provider and on your own connection.

9. Warranties and their limits

The service is provided as it stands. To the extent permitted by law we exclude implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non infringement. We do not warrant that a calculation will match a settlement to the penny, because the inputs come from you and market conditions change between quoting and delivery. Statutory warranties that cannot be excluded under applicable law are unaffected.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim arising out of or connected with the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. We are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, including lost freight, lost profit, lost business opportunity or loss of goodwill. Nothing in these terms limits liability for fraud, for willful misconduct, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

11. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify MLJ, SASU against claims, damages and reasonable costs arising from your use of the service in breach of these terms, from content you upload that you had no right to upload, or from your failure to comply with transport regulations applicable to your operation.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms to reflect changes in the service or in the law. Material changes are announced by email to account holders at least thirty days before they take effect, and the revision date on this page is updated. Continuing to use the service after that date means you accept the revised terms. If you do not accept them, cancel before they take effect.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by French law. Any dispute that cannot be settled amicably will be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Paris, France. Before starting proceedings, both parties agree to attempt a resolution by email or by a scheduled call within thirty days of a written complaint.

14. Contact

Questions about these terms, about billing or about an account go to jimenezjulien42@gmail.com. Postal and registration details of the publisher are set out on the legal notice, and the handling of personal data is described in the privacy policy.