Terms of Use

These tools produce standard industry forms for you to check, complete and use at your own judgment. They are not legal advice, they are not a compliance service, and the person responsible for what a shipping document says is the person who signs it.

1. Using this site means accepting these terms

By using FreightPaperwork you agree to what follows. If you do not agree, the remedy is straightforward: stop using it. Most people never create an account, and for them there is nothing to close. If you did create one, you can leave a company or close the account outright from your account pages, without asking us.

2. What the service is

This site publishes two things. Document generators — the the generator on the homepage and the tools alongside it — which take information you type and lay it out as a printable PDF in your own browser. And reference guides about freight paperwork, written to be accurate and useful.

Both are free. Every generator is unlimited, needs no account, and carries no watermark — that is not a trial and it does not expire. A company that wants the site to remember things between visits can create a free account, which section 4 covers; nothing in this paragraph changes if it does not.

3. What the service is not

This matters more than the rest of this page, so it is stated plainly.

• It is not legal advice. Bills of lading are contracts with real legal consequences. Nothing on this site is advice about your situation, and reading it does not create a professional relationship of any kind.
• It is not a compliance tool. The generators do not validate freight classifications, look up NMFC item numbers, check hazardous materials descriptions against 49 CFR, or confirm that a document satisfies any carrier, regulator or customer requirement. They print what you type.
• It is not a carrier-branded form. The output is a standard short-form bill of lading. Some carriers and some retail routing guides require their own document instead. Check before the truck arrives.
• It is not a record-keeping system. Used without an account nothing is stored, and we cannot retrieve, re-send or reconstruct a document you generated. An account keeps the details behind documents you generate while signed in, so they can be reopened — but it is a convenience, not an archive you should rely on for a claim or an audit. Save your own PDFs either way.

4. Accounts

Accounts are free. An account adds saved shippers, consignees and carriers shared across your company, document history you can reopen, sequential document numbering, your logo on generated documents, and no advertising while you are signed in. It does not change the generators, which stay free, unlimited and usable without one.

What an account holds belongs to your company. Saved parties and document history stay until you delete them from their own pages, or close the account, which deletes everything. An account owner can export all of it at any time.

There is no paid plan. If one is ever introduced, these terms change first, under section 13.

5. Your responsibility for what you produce

You are responsible for the accuracy of everything you enter and for the document that results. That includes the commodity description, the NMFC item number, the freight class, the weight, the declared value, and the correct identification of any hazardous material.

Shipping regulated material carries obligations that sit with the shipper by law, not with a form provider. If you are not certain a description is right, ask your carrier or a qualified consultant before the freight moves.

6. Accuracy of the guides

The reference content here is written carefully and checked against the underlying rules. It is also general, written for a United States domestic freight audience, and current as at the date shown on each page. Regulations change, carrier tariffs change more often, and a rule that is right in general may not be right for your lane, your commodity or your contract.

Where a page cites a statute or regulation, the citation is a pointer to the source, not a substitute for reading it.

7. Availability

The site is provided as is and as available. We do not promise it will be online at any given moment, that the PDF library will load from its content delivery network, or that a future browser will render everything the way today's browsers do. If the generator will not run, printing the page still gives you a usable blank form.

8. Intellectual property

The written guides, page designs, code and diagrams on this site belong to FreightPaperwork. You may read them, print them and share links to them.

Documents you generate are yours. We claim nothing over the contents of a bill of lading you produce here, and you may use it commercially without attribution or permission.

The generators use jsPDF, an open source library published under the MIT license by its authors. Standard bill of lading clause wording reproduced on generated documents derives from long- established industry form language.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, FreightPaperwork is not liable for any loss arising out of your use of this site. That includes freight loss or damage, denied or reduced claims, reclassification charges, rebills, detention, fines, penalties, delayed shipments, lost profits and lost data.

The generators are free to use, and no relationship beyond these terms is created between us by your use of them. If you need a guarantee about a shipping document, that guarantee has to come from your carrier or your advisers — an account gives you saved addresses, history and numbering, and it is not a warranty about the documents themselves.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

10. Acceptable use

Use the site for lawful freight purposes. Do not use it to produce documents intended to misrepresent a shipment, conceal regulated material, defraud a carrier, broker, insurer or customer, or evade a legal obligation. Do not attempt to disrupt the site or the people using it.

11. Advertising

Display advertising helps pay for the site. Advertising storage is denied by default and only enabled if you accept it through the cookie banner. Advertisements are selected by the advertising network and are not endorsements of the advertiser by us. How advertising data is handled is set out in the privacy policy.

No advertising code is served to anyone signed in to an account.

12. Links to other sites

Where we link out — to a regulator, a classification body, a carrier — we link because the source is useful. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content or their privacy practices.

13. Changes to these terms

These terms may be updated. The date at the top of the page changes when they are. Continuing to use the site after a change means accepting the revised terms.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of the jurisdiction in which the site operator is established, and any dispute is subject to the courts of that jurisdiction.

15. Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@freightpaperwork.com.