Lanes & rate cards
Build a lane once with real OSRM road distance and your rates, share it across as many clients as you like, then drop it into a draft, or use it as the benchmark when you review what a customer sent.
Built in Brisbane · Tuned for Australian transport law
Draft. Review. Negotiate. Every freight contract, in your browser.
FreightClause drafts and reviews Australian freight contracts in under a minute, flags the unfair terms and rewrites them in your house style. Save the thousands in legal fees and the weeks of back-and-forth, and put those hours back into running the business.
- No credit card
- Data stays in AU
- Drafts UCT-safe by default
Trusted by freight operators across Australia
The maths
Spend less on legal. Spend more on operating.
Having a commercial lawyer review and negotiate a single freight contract typically runs into the thousands and a week of back-and-forth. FreightClause does the first pass in under a minute for a flat monthly fee, so you only pay your solicitor for the final sign-off.
A$1,500–5,000
Estimated lawyer fee to review and mark up one commercial freight contract
Under 60 seconds
To draft a UCT-safe agreement or run a clause-by-clause review
Weeks to minutes
Turnaround on a counterparty markup, so deals are not stuck waiting on legal
Pay your solicitor to sign off, not to do the first read. The hours you get back go where they count — running the business.
How it works
Two flows. Same playbook.
Whether you're drafting one from scratch or reviewing one a customer sent you, the same Australian freight rules apply — same vocabulary, same severity scoring, same redline library.
Flow A
Drafting a new agreement
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01
Pick a template
Thirteen templates across road, logistics, rail, international and resources majors. Sea and air include Incoterms 2020 picker. Resources templates carry a counterparty profile plus a Contractor or Principal stance toggle.
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02
Type the brief (or fill the form)
Plain English: parties, term, rate, lanes, or attach a saved lane and rate card and let it price the deal. Anything you leave out becomes a clearly marked placeholder, never an invented figure.
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03
Generate, then negotiate
≥25 clauses, UCT-safe, ready to send. Self-check confirms 0 Critical / 0 High. Save it in progress and resume any time, then export to .docx or PDF.
Flow B
Reviewing one you received
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01
Paste or upload
PDF, Word, or pasted text. Carrier subs, 3PL, customer freight, rate schedules.
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02
AI parses every clause
Severity-scored against your playbook, UCT regime, and CoR obligations.
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03
Review, ask, redline
Three-pane surface. Ask a question — get cited answers, not vibes.
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04
Export and send
Clean tracked-changes .docx, or a one-page risk summary PDF for your GM.
What ties them together
One workspace feeds both flows.
Your lanes, rate cards, fuel basis and compliance position live in one place, so the same numbers and the same rules carry into every draft you write and every contract you review.
Fuel levy & FSC schedule
Work the surcharge off the live AIP terminal-gate diesel feed, build a banded FSC schedule and export it to PDF or CSV, the same basis you cite when drafting a fuel clause and when challenging one in review.
Compliance centre
A readiness self-assessment, a coverage view across your drafts and reviews, key dates and penalty references, plus change monitoring on the UCT regime, the HVNL, CoR and the ADG Code, so both flows stay current.
Pricing
Plans that scale with your contract volume.
Start free: run one audit of your own standard terms and see your full unfair-term exposure, no card and no time limit. Suggested fixes, drafting and full reviews, plus the operator toolkit (CPI rate reviews on live ABS data, the dangerous goods reference, fuel levy and more) unlock on a paid plan. All paid plans include the freight playbooks, UCT compliance checks and Australian data residency. Prices in A$, ex GST.
Free: one audit of your own trading terms
A single audit, no card and no time limit: see your full unfair-term exposure, the band, the severity and every flagged clause. The suggested fixes and redlines, drafting, full reviews and the operator toolkit (CPI rate reviews, dangerous goods, fuel levy and more) unlock the moment you upgrade.
Starter
A$
200
/month
Owner-operators and single-user brokers
- 5 new drafts/month
- 3 reviews/month
- Top-ups: 5 extra for A$50
- Full UCT exposure scorecard
- Audit-my-own-terms (PDF/DOCX upload)
- Export & re-run reviews
- Fuel levy calculator + AIP feed
- Custom counterparty profiles
- Email support
Most popular
Business
A$
400
/month
Freight brokers and 3PLs with a compliance load
- Everything in Starter
- 15 drafts per month
- 10 reviews/month
- Top-ups: 5 extra for A$50
- Up to 5 seats
- Freight clause library
- CPI & rate-review tool (live ABS data)
- Dangerous goods reference
- Routes & vehicle costing
- Regulatory change monitoring
- Custom playbook authoring
- Priority support
Pro
A$
800
/month
High-volume operators and fleet principals
- Everything in Business
- 30 drafts per month
- 30 reviews/month
- Top-ups: 5 extra for A$50
- Unlimited seats
- Resources-Majors templates
- AI Q&A with BYO key support
- Priority phone + email support
Need more in a busy month? Add a top-up pack of 5 extra drafts or reviews to any paid plan for A$50. Top-ups roll over and are only used once your monthly cap is reached.
Enterprise
Custom
For carriers and 3PLs at scale. Unlimited reviews and drafts, unlimited seats and playbooks, SSO, audit log, SOC 2 pack, dedicated solutions engineer, and on-prem or private VPC deployment.
What you're paying for
For less than an hour of legal time a month.
A subscription replaces the slow, expensive first pass on every freight contract. Here is what that flat monthly fee actually buys.
UCT-safe draftingThirteen Australian templates including the resources majors, generated from a brief in under a minute.
The full review engineClause-by-clause analysis with a UCT exposure scorecard and suggested redlines on every contract you receive.
Freight playbooks & clause libraryDefensible, house-style clauses built from real carrier, 3PL and customer-freight contracts.
Live compliance dataAIP fuel-levy feed and regulatory monitoring across the UCT regime, HVNL Chain of Responsibility and the ADG code.
Export anywhereTracked-changes Word, branded PDF risk memos and markdown, ready for your solicitor or counterparty.
Your whole teamShared workspace, client filing and manager oversight, so the work and the playbook stay consistent.
Rate reviews that hold upAnnual CPI escalations on live ABS CPI and Wage Price Index, weighted across labour, fuel and overheads, so your rates keep pace with your costs.
Dangerous goods liability, flagged earlyADG placard-load and Schedule 11 storage thresholds, segregation and the licensing triggers, so a contract's DG exposure is clear before you sign.
Lanes priced on real distanceOSRM road distance and per-kilometre vehicle costing behind every lane, rate card and review, not a guess.
One unfair-term dispute avoided, one rate review that keeps pace with costs, or one contract you did not send to a lawyer, pays for the year.
Why FreightClause
Three reasons generic AI review tools miss the mark.
Built for freight. Not borrowed from SaaS.
Every clause is interpreted through a freight lens — Chain of Responsibility, demurrage, detention, deadweight, fuel levy, Bill of Lading, lien rights, subcontracting. Generic AI tools treat your carrier subcontract like a software EULA. We don't.
Australia's UCT regime, finally tractable.
The November 2023 unfair contract terms changes hit small-business carriers hardest. FreightClause flags presumptively unfair terms — unilateral variation, broad set-off, uncapped indemnity, unilateral termination — and shows you the safer redline.
Speaks operator, not lawyer.
Every issue is explained the way your operations manager would say it. No "notwithstanding the foregoing." Plain English summary, business impact, recommended redline. Then export a clean redline back to your customer or carrier.
Explore FreightClause
One playbook, across your whole desk.
New · Drafting
Type the deal. Get the contract.
Describe the deal in plain English — parties, lanes, term, rate. FreightClause generates a full Australian freight agreement that's UCT-safe by default: mirrored liability caps, mutual termination, no unilateral variation, plain Australian English throughout.
- Thirteen AU-specific templates: road (including equipment dry-hire), 3PL, rail, sea, air, plus a Resources Majors module (BHP, BMA, Rio Tinto, FMG, Glencore, Anglo American, South32) with Contractor or Principal stance
- ≥25 clauses, ACL ss23–24 compliant, 30-day payment + RBA+3% late interest
- Same playbook reviews it instantly — self-check passes 0 Critical, 0 High
- Hand to your solicitor, your customer, or your CLM — .docx, PDF, markdown
Drafting templates · 13 across road, logistics, rail, international and resources majors
Carrier Subcontract
Customer Freight + Rate
Owner-Driver
3PL Warehousing
4PL / LLP
Rail Haulage
Sea Freight
Air Freight
Resources · Heavy Haulage
Resources · Rail Haulage
Resources · Site Services
Resources · Export Logistics
Incoterms 2020 intelligence built in
All 11 rules
Risk and cost transfer
Insurance obligations
Mode validation
The vertical advantage
Built from real contracts by real operators.
FreightClause isn't a generic chatbot with a "freight prompt" bolted on. Our playbooks are written by operators, drawn from real carrier subcontracts, 3PL warehousing agreements, customer freight schedules and rate cards. The system knows what 90-day EOM terms look like, and what they should look like.
7
Pre-built freight playbooks
Under a minute
From upload to first review
Linehaul carrier subcontract
14 rules
Critical Payment terms beyond 60 days EOM
High Uncapped indemnity or consequential loss
High Unilateral variation rights
Medium Missing Chain of Responsibility carve-out
3PL warehousing agreement
12 rules
Critical Broad warehouseman's lien with no notice
High Insurance below A$20m public liability
Medium Stocktake variance threshold < 0.3%
See it draft AND review a freight contract.
Click through the whole product with sample data — drafts, reviews, the UCT scorecard, fuel levy and regulatory monitoring. No sign-up, no card.
The product
Every tool on one desk.
Drafting, review, fuel, compliance, playbooks and your lanes: one workspace, branded for your business, with every deliverable in your house style.
app.freightclause.com › Drafting
Draft a freight agreement
Carrier subcontract · UCT-safe balanced
13 templates
28 clauses
0 Critical · 0 High
Saved · in progress
Type the deal, get the contract. Thirteen Australian freight templates, UCT-safe by default, with a self-check that passes 0 Critical and 0 High before you send.
app.freightclause.com › Review
Review a contract
Carrier subcontract · 14 terms flagged
UCT regime
High UCT exposure
5C6H2M1L
2.1 · Uncapped indemnityCritical
5.1 · Payment terms 60 daysHigh
7.1 · Unilateral terminationHigh
Suggested redline ready
Cited · ACL ss23-28
Clause-by-clause, with a UCT exposure scorecard. Severity rankings, a plain-English summary, a suggested redline and ACL ss23-28 citations on every issue.
app.freightclause.com › Fuel Levy
Fuel levy & surcharge
Live AIP terminal-gate diesel
National 191.7 c/L
TGP trend · last 16 weeks · +4.1 c/L
185.0 c/L190.0 c/L3.0%
190.0 c/L195.0 c/L4.0%
195.0 c/L200.0 c/L5.0%
Apply to lane
CSV
PDF
Fuel surcharge, your contract's way. Work the levy off a live AIP terminal-gate diesel feed, watch the trend, build a banded FSC schedule and export it to CSV or PDF.
app.freightclause.com › Regulatory
Compliance centre
Readiness self-assessment
Strong
82%
Readiness · Strong
Chain of Responsibility allocated Yes
UCT-safe terms Yes
Transparent fuel surcharge Partial
Coverage · 12 reviews · 7 drafts
ADG Code · change flagged
Know where you stand, and stay there. A readiness self-assessment, coverage across your drafts and reviews, and change monitoring on the UCT regime, the HVNL, CoR and the ADG Code.
app.freightclause.com › Playbooks
Freight playbooks
Position-aware rule sets
7 pre-built
No unilateral rate variation
Carrier · enforced on review
Payment within 30 days
Carrier · enforced on review
Mirrored limitation of liability
Carrier · enforced on review
Carrier subcontract · 24 rules
+ your custom rules
Seven position-aware playbooks, built in. Each review runs against the right side of the deal, and on Business and Pro you can layer your own rules on top.
app.freightclause.com › Routes
Lanes & rate cards
OSRM road distance
Shared · 3 clients
BNE
SYD
MEL
Linehaulper kmA$3.20
Fuel surchargeBrisbane TGPindex
Detentionper hourA$95.00
Shared across clients
Export PDF
Your lanes and rates, in one place. Real OSRM road distances, rate cards shared across clients, and a branded PDF you can hand to a customer.
UCT Compliance Sweep
Fixed-fee compliance review. A$2,500. One sitting.
Bring us your top three customer agreements and we'll run a structured Unfair Contract Terms sweep — clause-by-clause, with a written report and prioritised redline pack. Built for operators who need to be defensible by quarter-end, not next year.
- Up to 3 standard-form contracts
- Written report, 5 business days
- Redline pack ready to send to counsel
- 30-min debrief with the founder
Fixed fee
A$2,500
ex GST · Australia-wide
Includes
- 3 contracts reviewed
- Report & redline pack
- Founder debrief call
FAQ
The questions every operator asks first.
Can FreightClause draft contracts from scratch?
Yes. Type a short brief or fill the structured form, and FreightClause generates a UCT-safe agreement in plain Australian English in under a minute, across road, logistics, rail, sea, air and resources majors work. Each draft is built to be defensible from the start, then self-checked against the same playbook before you see it. Hand it straight to your solicitor for sign-off, your counterparty, or your contract system. The demo shows the full template range live.
How does the Resources Majors module differ from the rest?
Resources majors don't sign generic freight templates. Their contracts carry their own structure, from KPI and abatement schedules to take-or-pay on rail and Chain of Responsibility allocation on heavy haulage. The Resources Majors module drafts straight into that architecture, with a stance toggle so you can draft as the contractor or the principal, and a small-business unfair-terms switch that rewrites the riskiest clauses before you see them. The demo walks through how it works.
Is this legal advice?
No. FreightClause is a contract review and drafting tool built for operators. It surfaces risk, suggests redlines, and explains clauses in plain English — but it is not a substitute for a lawyer's advice on a specific transaction. Most of our customers use FreightClause to do the first pass, then send the redline pack to their solicitor for sign-off. That's the right workflow.
Where is my data stored?
In Australia. All contract text, review history, and Q&A transcripts are stored on Australian infrastructure. We never train our models on your data, and you can delete a contract (and all derived analysis) with one click. Pro and Enterprise plans support BYO API key so your contract text never touches our LLM provider account.
Do you support contracts other than freight?
Not deliberately. FreightClause is a vertical product — the playbooks, severity scoring, and redline library are tuned for carrier subcontracts, 3PL warehousing agreements, customer freight agreements, rate schedules, and freight brokerage agreements. You can throw a generic NDA at it and it'll do a reasonable job, but you'd be leaving most of the value on the table.
What about the Word add-in?
On the roadmap for Q3 2026. Today, the workflow is: upload or paste in the web app, review and redline in the three-pane surface, export a tracked-changes .docx. The Word add-in will let you review in-place inside Word for users who prefer to stay in Office.
Can't I just use a general AI like ChatGPT to review my freight contract?
You can, and it will give you a generic pass. But a general-purpose AI treats a carrier subcontract like any other document. It does not reliably know the Australian unfair contract terms regime (ACL ss23-28), the Heavy Vehicle National Law and Chain of Responsibility, or the ADG Code, and it does not know what 90-day EOM terms or an uncapped indemnity mean for a freight operator. FreightClause is built for exactly that: it scores UCT exposure, cites the Australian source for every flag, suggests freight-specific redlines you can apply and export as a compliant contract, and carries your fuel levy, CPI rate reviews and dangerous-goods obligations into the same workflow. Use it for the first pass, then have a lawyer confirm.
Who's behind FreightClause?
FreightClause is built by three operators, not a lawyer. The founding team comes out of WMS/FMS implementation and customer account management across linehaul and 3PL. We sit between dispatch and the GM, which is exactly where contract review has always been broken. We're advised by Australian commercial counsel and partnered with a Brisbane-based law firm on the UCT Sweep.
Get on the list
Be among the first 50 operators on FreightClause.
Start free: audit your own terms and see your unfair-term exposure, no card required. Upgrade to unlock the fixes, drafting and full reviews. Drop your details and we'll send your sign-up link and book a 15-minute walkthrough.