Lange

Lange Fresh Sales Terms & Conditions

These Terms and Con­di­tions apply to the arrange­ment of trans­porta­tion ser­vices by Lange Fresh Sales, Inc. (“Lange Fresh Sales” or ​“Bro­ker”) for any ship­ment. These Terms and Con­di­tions also apply to the arrange­ment of trans­porta­tion ser­vices by Tom Lange Com­pa­ny, Inc. (“Tom Lange”) for any ship­ment as all busi­ness and con­trac­tu­al oblig­a­tions of Tom Lange have been assigned and trans­ferred to Lange Fresh Sales as of Sep­tem­ber 1, 2024. Fur­ther, any ref­er­ence to Tom Lange in any Bro­ker-Car­ri­er Agree­ment or any oth­er agree­ment is now replaced with Lange Fresh Sales.

In addi­tion to any terms and con­di­tions con­tained in the Bro­ker-Car­ri­er Agree­ment, the Car­ri­er (defined below) con­sents to these Terms and Con­di­tions (“Terms”): 

  1. Bro­ker reserves the right to change these Terms from time to time with­out notice. The terms, con­di­tions, lim­i­ta­tions, charges, and ser­vices of these Terms in effect on the date that Customer’s ship­ment is ten­dered for trans­porta­tion will apply. Car­ri­er is respon­si­ble to obtain the cur­rent ver­sion of Terms by access­ing them on Lange Fresh Sales’ web­site at www​.lange​-com​pa​nies​.com.
  2. As used here­in, ​“Cus­tomer” means the person(s)/entity(ies) for whose ben­e­fit, at whose request, or on whose behalf Bro­ker pro­vides the Ser­vices, whether Cus­tomer is a con­sign­or, con­signee, ship­per, receiv­er, or third-par­ty inter­me­di­ary. As used here­in, ​“Car­ri­er” means any motor car­ri­er, includ­ing its dri­vers and inde­pen­dent own­er oper­a­tors, third-par­ty logis­tics com­pa­ny, any ocean or air car­ri­er, or any oth­er person/​entity that pro­vides trans­porta­tion, stor­age, han­dling, or relat­ed ser­vices to Customer’s car­go or goods for which the Bro­ker is arrang­ing trans­porta­tion (“Goods”).
  3. Car­ri­er rep­re­sents and war­rants that it is duly and legal­ly licensed under state, provin­cial and fed­er­al law to pro­vide the ser­vices con­tem­plat­ed herein.
  4. Car­ri­er agrees that all trans­porta­tion ser­vices will be per­formed in full com­pli­ance with Fed­er­al, State, Provin­cial, Ter­ri­to­r­i­al, Munic­i­pal, Local, and, to the extent applic­a­ble, inter­na­tion­al laws or reg­u­la­tions gov­ern­ing its oper­a­tions, as well as all laws and relat­ed pro­grams designed to pro­tect trans­porta­tion activ­i­ties from ter­ror­ist attacks (“Applic­a­ble Laws”). Car­ri­er agrees to indem­ni­fy Bro­ker for any fines, costs, claims, lia­bil­i­ty, or expens­es that it may incur and that arise out of vio­la­tions of any applic­a­ble laws and reg­u­la­tions dur­ing Carrier’s per­for­mance under this Agree­ment. Car­ri­er will not engage in any trade, prac­tice or oth­er activ­i­ty which is harm­ful to the good­will of Bro­ker or Broker’s Cus­tomers, or which reflects unfa­vor­ably on the rep­u­ta­tion of Bro­ker or Broker’s Cus­tomers, or which con­sti­tutes decep­tive or unfair com­pe­ti­tion, con­sumer fraud or misrepresentation.
  5. If any por­tion of these Terms results in a vio­la­tion of any law, or any pro­vi­sion is deter­mined by a court of com­pe­tent juris­dic­tion to be invalid or unen­force­able, Car­ri­er and Bro­ker agree that such por­tion or pro­vi­sion will be sev­er­able and that the remain­ing pro­vi­sions will con­tin­ue in full force and effect. The rep­re­sen­ta­tions and oblig­a­tions of the par­ties here­in will sur­vive the ter­mi­na­tion of the par­ties’ rela­tion­ship or any ser­vices, for any reason.
  6. Car­ri­er and Bro­ker agree, for each ship­ment of Goods, the fol­low­ing shall apply:
    1. Tar­iffs. In the event of a con­flict in the terms of any agree­ment between Car­ri­er and Bro­ker or any rules or tar­iff of Car­ri­er or the Bill of Lad­ing (“BOL”) and these Terms, these Terms shall take prece­dence and con­trol the inter­pre­ta­tion of the rights and oblig­a­tions of the parties. 
    2. Bills of Lad­ing. Car­ri­er will issue and sign a stan­dard, uni­form straight bill of lad­ing or oth­er ten­der receipt accept­able to Bro­ker and Broker’s Cus­tomers upon accep­tance of a ship­ment for trans­porta­tion, and to com­ply with the remain­ing pro­vi­sions of this sec­tion. If Car­ri­er per­mits the Cus­tomer to pre­pare the bill of lad­ing, Car­ri­er war­rants that it shall ensure that the bill of lad­ing prop­er­ly names Car­ri­er as the ​“Car­ri­er” on the load pri­or to sign­ing it, and shall strike through and cor­rect any erro­neous des­ig­na­tion of any oth­er per­son as ​“Car­ri­er” (includ­ing Bro­ker) on the bill of lad­ing. The Par­ties acknowl­edge and agree that the terms and con­di­tions of the bill of lad­ing shall not apply to ser­vices pro­vid­ed under the Agree­ment. The bill of lad­ing issued or exe­cut­ed by Car­ri­er shall be pri­ma facie evi­dence of receipt of the ship­ment in good order and con­di­tion by Car­ri­er unless oth­er­wise not­ed on the face of said document. 
    3. Re-Bro­ker­ing. Car­ri­er specif­i­cal­ly agrees that it will not re-bro­ker, co-bro­ker, sub­con­tract, assign, inter­line, or trans­fer the trans­porta­tion of ship­ments here­un­der to any oth­er per­sons or enti­ty con­duct­ing busi­ness under a dif­fer­ent oper­at­ing author­i­ty. If Car­ri­er breach­es this pro­vi­sion, among all oth­er reme­dies (whether at equi­ty or in law), Bro­ker reserves the right to refuse pay­ment to Car­ri­er and/​or to pay the monies it owes Car­ri­er direct­ly to the deliv­er­ing car­ri­er, in lieu of pay­ment to Car­ri­er. Upon Broker’s pay­ment to deliv­er­ing car­ri­er, Car­ri­er shall not be released from any lia­bil­i­ty to Bro­ker under this Agree­ment or oth­er­wise, includ­ing any claims under MAP-21 (49 U.S.C. § 13901 et seq.). In addi­tion to the indem­ni­ty oblig­a­tion in Par 1.H, Car­ri­er will be liable for con­se­quen­tial dam­ages for vio­la­tion of this pro­vi­sion and, fur­ther, Bro­ker, in its sole dis­cre­tion, may do one or more of the fol­low­ing: (a) ter­mi­nate this Agree­ment and Broker’s rela­tion­ship with Car­ri­er; and/​or (b) require Car­ri­er to imme­di­ate­ly pro­vide secu­ri­ty (cash, bond or let­ter of cred­it) in a min­i­mum amount of $50,000, or such greater amount required by Bro­ker to secure Carrier’s liability. 
    4. Indem­ni­fi­ca­tion. Car­ri­er shall defend, indem­ni­fy and hold Bro­ker (and the applic­a­ble ship­per, con­sign­or, con­signee, receiv­er and/​or oth­er par­ty with an inter­est in the trans­port­ed prop­er­ty) harm­less from any and all, direct or indi­rect, fines, penal­ties, pay­ments, costs, expens­es, lia­bil­i­ty claims, actions or dam­ages, aris­ing out of its per­for­mance under this Agree­ment, includ­ing car­go loss and dam­age, theft, delay, dam­age to prop­er­ty, and bod­i­ly injury, per­son­al injury or death. The oblig­a­tion to defend shall include all costs of defense as they accrue.
    5. Lien. Car­ri­er shall not have a lien and shall waive its right to any lien on any car­go, freight, or prop­er­ty of Bro­ker or any of its cus­tomers, con­signors, or consignees.
    6. Costs and Expens­es of Oper­a­tion. Car­ri­er shall bear all of the costs, expens­es, and lia­bil­i­ties of pro­vid­ing the ser­vices and sup­plies required for the oper­a­tion, main­te­nance, and repair of Equip­ment, all labor costs and expens­es and all costs and expens­es for the procur­ing and main­tain­ing of all insur­ance, oper­at­ing author­i­ties, licens­es and per­mits as may be required for the per­for­mance of trans­porta­tion services.
    7. Car­ri­er Mov­ing Per­ish­ables. Car­ri­er will ver­i­fy that the equip­ment is suit­able for the trans­porta­tion of food and dairy prod­ucts for human or ani­mal con­sump­tion, as applic­a­ble, as well as for oth­er per­ish­ables, and will com­ply with all applic­a­ble laws and reg­u­la­tions. Car­ri­er war­rants that the Car­ri­er will inspect or hire a ser­vice rep­re­sen­ta­tive to inspect a vehicle’s refrig­er­a­tion or heat­ing unit at least once each month. Car­ri­er war­rants that they shall main­tain a record of each inspec­tion of refrig­er­a­tion or heat­ing unit and retain the records of the inspec­tion for a least one year. Copies of these records must be pro­vid­ed upon request to the Carrier’s insur­ance com­pa­ny and Bro­ker. Each unit will main­tain tem­per­a­ture data log­gers in good work­ing con­di­tion and pro­vide the tem­per­a­ture read­ings upon request. 

      Car­ri­er war­rants that they will main­tain ade­quate fuel lev­els for the refrig­er­a­tion or heat­ing unit and assume full lia­bil­i­ty for claims and expens­es incurred by the Bro­ker or the ship­per for fail­ure to do so. 

      Car­ri­er will main­tain effec­tive dri­ver screen­ing, train­ing, qual­i­fi­ca­tion and mon­i­tor­ing pro­ce­dures and will pro­vide Bro­ker with infor­ma­tion about these pro­ce­dures upon request. Car­ri­er will cause its dri­vers and oth­er Car­ri­er rep­re­sen­ta­tives to oper­ate their vehi­cles and equip­ment in a prop­er and law­ful man­ner and to main­tain equip­ment used to pro­vide the trans­porta­tion ser­vices in good, safe, san­i­tary, dis­in­fect­ed and law­ful oper­at­ing con­di­tion at all times. Car­ri­er will use equip­ment that has been cleaned and san­i­tized in accor­dance with rea­son­able efforts not to sup­ply equip­ment for trans­porta­tion ser­vices that has been pre­vi­ous­ly used to trans­port oth­er prod­uct. Car­ri­er must pro­vide their car­go insur­er with all records that relate to a loss and per­mit copies and abstracts to be made from them upon request. Broker’s Cus­tomer is a third par­ty ben­e­fi­cia­ry of this Agree­ment.

      Car­ri­er will inspect all emp­ty equip­ment before load­ing to deter­mine whether it is in appar­ent good con­di­tion (i.e., it appears to be sound, road­wor­thy, clean, odor-free, dry, leakproof and free of con­t­a­m­i­na­tion or infes­ta­tion) to pro­tect the car­go being trans­port­ed, will reject any equip­ment that is not in appar­ent good con­di­tion, clean and dis­in­fect­ed and will imme­di­ate­ly (no lat­er than 60 min­utes) inform Bro­ker of its rejec­tion. Car­ri­er acknowl­edges that if Car­ri­er fails to inspect the equip­ment when it has the oppor­tu­ni­ty to do so, Car­ri­er assumes lia­bil­i­ty relat­ed to such fail­ure, for dam­age or loss to prod­uct car­go trans­port­ed in such equip­ment.

      All vehi­cles used for the trans­porta­tion of pas­teur­ized milk and milk prod­ucts shall be con­struct­ed and oper­at­ed so that the milk and milk prod­ucts are main­tained at 7ºC (45ºF) or less and are pro­tect­ed from con­t­a­m­i­na­tion. Milk tank cars, milk tank trucks, and portable ship­ping bins shall not be used to trans­port or con­tain any sub­stances that may be tox­ic or harm­ful to humans.

      Car­ri­er will main­tain com­pli­ance with Cal­i­for­nia TRU Reg­u­la­tion under Cal­i­for­nia Code of Reg­u­la­tions Title 13, Divi­sion 3, Chap­ter 9, Arti­cle 8, Sec­tion 2477, as applicable.
    8. Inde­pen­dent Con­trac­tor. Car­ri­er shall per­form the ser­vices here­un­der as an inde­pen­dent con­trac­tor and shall have exclu­sive con­trol and direc­tion of all per­sons oper­at­ing equip­ment or oth­er­wise engaged in pro­vid­ing trans­porta­tion ser­vices. Car­ri­er assumes full respon­si­bil­i­ty for the acts and omis­sions of such per­sons and, when applic­a­ble, shall have exclu­sive lia­bil­i­ty for the pay­ment of local, state and fed­er­al pay­roll tax­es or con­tri­bu­tions or tax­es for unem­ploy­ment insur­ance, work­ers’ com­pen­sa­tion, old age pen­sions or oth­er social secu­ri­ty and relat­ed pro­tec­tion, and agrees to com­ply with all applic­a­ble rules and reg­u­la­tions per­tain­ing there­to. Dri­ving direc­tions and oth­er inci­den­tal ship­ment details pro­vid­ed to Car­ri­er employ­ees by Bro­ker are for infor­ma­tion­al pur­pos­es only. 
    9. Pay­ment. Bro­ker will require Car­ri­er to sub­mit a signed copy of the bill of lad­ing and the deliv­ery receipt for the ship­ment, and, if applic­a­ble, a writ­ten amend­ment to the appen­dix acknowl­edg­ing a change in com­pen­sa­tion for any ship­ment pri­or to pay­ment by Bro­ker. Invoic­es must be sub­mit­ted to Bro­ker with­in thir­ty (30) days from the date of deliv­ery. Invoic­es received after thir­ty (30) days from the date of deliv­ery may be reject­ed and not processed for pay­ment. All charges for each ship­ment must be sub­mit­ted on one invoice. Any and all sec­ondary invoic­es sub­mit­ted after the orig­i­nal invoice has been received may not be paid. Car­ri­er (i) appoints and des­ig­nates Bro­ker as its agent for the pur­pose of billing and col­lec­tion of freight charges and waives any and all recourse rights to claim, demand, or pur­sue pay­ment from any per­son oth­er than Bro­ker for any ship­ment ten­dered pur­suant to this Con­tract; (ii) agrees not to con­tact Broker’s Cus­tomers, con­signors, con­signees, or any par­ty oth­er than Bro­ker con­cern­ing pay­ment for trans­porta­tion ser­vices; and (iii) agrees to indem­ni­fy, defend, and hold Bro­ker, its Cus­tomers, con­signors, and con­signees harm­less from any claim or demand made by any sub­con­trac­tor of Car­ri­er or oth­er par­ty for pay­ment for trans­porta­tion ser­vices relat­ed to a ship­ment ten­dered under this con­tract.

      Bro­ker will bill cus­tomer for trans­porta­tion charges on behalf of Car­ri­er and will remit to Car­ri­er such pro­ceeds as Car­ri­er is enti­tled to receive, but Car­ri­er agrees to sole­ly look to Bro­ker, and not to its cus­tomers, for the pay­ment of the Carrier’s charges.
    10. Dis­claimer of War­ranties. Bro­ker makes no war­ranties, express or implied, includ­ing, with­out lim­i­ta­tion, war­ranties of mer­chantabil­i­ty or fit­ness for a par­tic­u­lar pur­pose, with regard to any ship­ment, ware­housed goods, items in tran­sit or deliv­er­ies or with regard to the infor­ma­tion or ser­vices pro­vid­ed. In no event shall Bro­ker be liable for any spe­cial, inci­den­tal, or con­se­quen­tial dam­ages, includ­ing dam­ages relat­ing to loss of prof­its or income, whether or not such dam­ages were rea­son­ably foreseeable.
    11. Insur­ance. Car­ri­er shall car­ry insur­ance to cov­er any and all equip­ment and per­son­nel used in per­form­ing under this Agree­ment and shall fur­nish Bro­ker with Certificate(s) of Insur­ance pri­or to first ship­ment for Bro­ker (with annu­al updates there­after) and/​or copies of insur­ance poli­cies if so request­ed by Bro­ker and unless oth­er­wise agreed, sub­ject to the fol­low­ing min­i­mum lim­its: Gen­er­al lia­bil­i­ty at a lim­it of $1,000,000.00 Each Occur­rence; Com­mer­cial Auto­mo­bile Liability/​Motor Vehi­cle Lia­bil­i­ty (includ­ing hired and non-owned vehi­cles) at a lim­it of $1,000,000.00 Com­bined Sin­gle Lim­it Each Occur­rence, ($5,000,000 Com­bined Sin­gle Lim­it Each Occur­rence, an MCS-90 Endorse­ment and the Broad­ened Pol­lu­tion Lia­bil­i­ty Endorse­ment CA 99 48 if trans­port­ing haz­ardous mate­ri­als includ­ing envi­ron­men­tal dam­ages due to release or dis­charge of haz­ardous sub­stances); Car­go Damage/​Loss lia­bil­i­ty equal to the full val­ue of each Truck­load (but not to be less than $100,000) with no exclu­sions or con­di­tions for the car­go under car­riage; Work­ers’ Com­pen­sa­tion with lim­its required by law, with an Employ­ers Lia­bil­i­ty Lim­it of no less than $500,000.00. Except for the high­er cov­er­age lim­its which may be spec­i­fied above, the insur­ance poli­cies shall com­ply with min­i­mum require­ments of the Fed­er­al Motor Car­ri­er Safe­ty Admin­is­tra­tion and any oth­er applic­a­ble reg­u­la­to­ry state agency and shall be pro­vid­ed by a rep­utable and finan­cial­ly respon­si­ble insur­ance com­pa­ny (rat­ed B+ or bet­ter) with the abil­i­ty to name Bro­ker as an addi­tion­al insured and loss pay­ee pro­vid­ing thir­ty (30) days advance notice of can­cel­la­tion or ter­mi­na­tion. Car­ri­er shall name Bro­ker as an addi­tion­al insured (on a pri­ma­ry and non-con­trib­u­to­ry basis from on-going and com­plet­ed oper­a­tion) and loss pay­ee on all such insur­ance poli­cies, as well as pro­vide Bro­ker with a Waiv­er of Sub­ro­ga­tion endorse­ment for such poli­cies (nam­ing Bro­ker as ben­e­fit under such waiv­er of sub­ro­ga­tion), and shall pro­vide addi­tion­al cer­ti­fi­ca­tions of same upon Broker’s request, and Car­ri­er agrees to name oth­er par­ties as addi­tion­al insureds and loss pay­ees as may be rea­son­ably request­ed by Bro­ker from time to time for cer­tain loads trans­port­ed under this Agree­ment. Addi­tion­al­ly, if the Car­ri­er holds an umbrel­la or excess insur­ance pol­i­cy, Car­ri­er shall name Bro­ker as an addi­tion­al insured and loss pay­ee on such insur­ance policy(ies) and pro­vide a Waiv­er of Sub­ro­ga­tion endorse­ment ben­e­fit­ing Bro­ker. Noth­ing in this Agree­ment shall be con­strued to avoid or lim­it Carrier’s lia­bil­i­ty due to any pol­i­cy lim­its or exclu­sion or deductible in any insur­ance pol­i­cy. Car­ri­er agrees Bro­ker is enti­tled to request and receive copies of all insur­ance poli­cies of Car­ri­er and Car­ri­er agrees that it will be in breach of this Agree­ment in the event it (or its insur­ance com­pa­ny) fails to pro­vide copies of insur­ance poli­cies, cov­er­age infor­ma­tion and/​or COIs upon Broker’s request.
  7. Dis­putes: In the event of a dis­pute aris­ing out of this Agree­ment, includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to Fed­er­al or State statu­to­ry claims, with the excep­tion of mat­ters involv­ing fed­er­al pre­emp­tion, the Par­ty’s sole recourse (except as pro­vid­ed below) shall be arbi­tra­tion. Arbi­tra­tion Pro­ceed­ings shall be con­duct­ed under the rules of the Amer­i­can Arbi­tra­tion Asso­ci­a­tion (AAA), Trans­porta­tion ADR Coun­cil, Inc. (ADR), or DRC (Fruit and Veg­etable Dis­pute Res­o­lu­tion Corp) for fresh pro­duce relat­ed claims, upon mutu­al agree­ment of the Par­ties, or if no agree­ment, then at Broker’s sole dis­cre­tion. Arbi­tra­tion pro­ceed­ings shall be start­ed with­in eigh­teen (18) months from the date of deliv­ery or sched­uled date of deliv­ery of the freight, whichev­er is lat­er. Upon agree­ment of the Par­ties, arbi­tra­tion pro­ceed­ings may be con­duct­ed out­side of the admin­is­tra­tive con­trol of the AAA, ADR, or DRC. The deci­sion of the arbi­tra­tors shall be bind­ing and final and the award of the arbi­tra­tor may be entered as judg­ment in any court of com­pe­tent juris­dic­tion. The ratio­nale and rea­son­ing of the deci­sion of arbitrator(s) shall be ful­ly explained in a writ­ten opin­ion, includ­ing find­ings of fact and con­clu­sions of law. The pre­vail­ing par­ty shall be enti­tled to recov­ery of costs, expens­es and rea­son­able attor­ney fees as well as those incurred in any action for injunc­tive relief, or in the event fur­ther legal action is tak­en to enforce the award of arbi­tra­tors. Arbi­tra­tion pro­ceed­ings shall be con­duct­ed at the office of the AAA, ADR, or DRC near­est St. Louis, MO, USA, or at such oth­er place as mutu­al­ly agreed upon in writ­ing, or by con­fer­ence call or video con­fer­enc­ing upon agree­ment of the Par­ties. Pro­vid­ed, how­ev­er, either Par­ty may apply to a court of com­pe­tent juris­dic­tion for injunc­tive relief. Unless pre­empt­ed or con­trolled by fed­er­al trans­porta­tion law and reg­u­la­tions, the laws of the State of Mis­souri, Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca shall be con­trol­ling notwith­stand­ing applic­a­ble con­flicts of laws rules. The par­ties mutu­al­ly acknowl­edge and agree that they shall not raise in con­nec­tion there­with, and here­by waive, any defense based upon venue, incon­ve­nience of forum, lack of juris­dic­tion, or the like in any action or suit brought in accor­dance with the fore­go­ing. The arbi­tra­tion pro­vi­sions of this para­graph shall not apply to enforce­ment of the award of arbi­tra­tion. THE PAR­TIES EXPRESS­LY ACKNOWL­EDGE AND AGREE THAT THE PRO­VI­SIONS OF THIS SUB­SEC­TION L REGARD­ING MANDA­TO­RY ARBI­TRA­TION SHALL NOT APPLY WHEN COM­PA­NY FILES SUIT TO ENFORCE. Par­ties fur­ther express­ly acknowl­edge such a claim shall be brought by Com­pa­ny in the State of Mis­souri, Coun­ty of Saint Louis City, and Par­ties con­sent to and waive any objec­tion to such venue or jurisdiction.
  8. Par­ties acknowl­edge and agree that in the event of any con­flict between the terms of the Bro­ker – Car­ri­er Agree­ment and these Terms, these Terms shall govern.