This agreement covers your Co-Founder membership, billing, cancellation, and what your membership does and does not provide.
Last updated: August 4, 2026
Last Revised: August 4, 2026
This Co-Founder Membership Agreement (the "Agreement") is between you and McCown Co. LLC, a Missouri limited liability company ("McCown Co."). It governs your Co-Founder membership in the McCownUSA movement. This Agreement works together with the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Legal Disclaimer. By purchasing a membership, you agree to this Agreement.
Co-Founder membership is a paid membership supporting an independent advocacy, education, auditing, and accountability organization. Membership fees from the $25 monthly plan and the $250 annual plan support the organization's education, advocacy, research, technology, administrative operations, regulatory work, and legislative outreach.
Co-Founder membership is available for $25 per month or $250 per year. This is a paid membership, not a charitable donation, and membership fees are not represented as tax deductible.
Co-Founder is a membership designation only. It does not provide equity, ownership, partnership status, profit-sharing rights, employment, agency authority, voting rights, governance rights, or any legal ownership interest in McCown Co. LLC.
Co-Founder membership includes:
Member feedback is advisory and does not create voting or governance rights.
Benefits may be added, modified, or discontinued as the organization develops.
The Co-Founder certificate and membership card are membership credentials only. They are not government identification, law-enforcement credentials, a professional license, motor-carrier authority, accreditation, or proof of ownership in McCown Co. LLC.
You must be at least 18 years of age to purchase or hold a Co-Founder membership. By enrolling, you represent that you are 18 or older, that the information you provide is accurate, and that you are authorized to use the payment method submitted.
Monthly Plan. Billed $25 today and every month until canceled. Cancellation stops future charges. Membership access continues through the end of the paid monthly billing period.
Annual Plan. Billed $250 today and every year until canceled. Canceling stops the next annual renewal. Annual membership fees are nonrefundable except where required by law, and access continues through the end of the paid annual term.
The plan you select at checkout controls the authorization language you are shown and the billing terms that apply to your membership. A member selecting the annual plan will not be presented with language authorizing a $25 monthly charge, and a member selecting the monthly plan will not be presented with language authorizing a $250 annual charge.
Both plans renew automatically using the payment method on file, monthly for the monthly plan and annually for the annual plan, until canceled. You authorize McCown Co. and its payment processor to charge that payment method for each renewal term.
Membership pricing may change in the future. We will provide advance notice before a price change takes effect for your membership, and you may cancel before the new price applies.
You may cancel at any time. Members may:
Canceling an annual membership stops the next annual renewal. It does not automatically refund the current annual term.
Membership fees are nonrefundable except where required by law. Because membership is a paid membership rather than a charitable contribution, fees are not tax deductible as charitable donations. Consult your own tax advisor regarding any business-expense treatment.
Membership does not guarantee individual legal representation, create an attorney-client relationship, or guarantee a particular legal or regulatory result.
McCown Co. supports education, legal research, regulatory advocacy, compliance review, referrals, and selected legal efforts approved by counsel. Referral to an attorney does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and McCown Co., and any engagement of counsel is a separate matter between you and that attorney.
McCown Co. LLC is an independent advocacy, education, auditing, and accountability organization working to improve transparency, professionalism, safety, and fair compensation in trucking.
We document reported industry practices, educate members, coordinate lawful complaints and legislative outreach, and refer credible matters to regulators, lawmakers, or counsel.
McCown Co. is not a government agency, law-enforcement body, court, motor carrier, broker, dispatch service, load board, labor union, or political party. We hold no government audit or enforcement authority and no subpoena power. We do not set current market rates, negotiate loads, operate a load board, coordinate bids, allocate customers or loads, or arrange private pricing agreements among carriers.
The $5.00 freight-rate floor and 3 percent broker-compensation cap are legislative proposals. Until enacted into law, members remain independent businesses responsible for their own prices, bids, contracts, customers, and operating decisions.
As a condition of membership, you agree not to:
Members who hold internal organizational titles such as McCown Co. State Representative or McCown Co. Congressional District Representative serve in organizational roles only. They are not elected public officials and hold no governmental authority.
A member submitting information or documents represents that the information is accurate to the best of the member's knowledge and that the member has lawful authority to submit it.
The member grants McCown Co. limited permission to store, review, redact, aggregate, de-identify, and use the submitted materials in furtherance of the organization's stated mission. Submitted case documents are handled as described in the Privacy Policy, including limits on public release of identifying information or unredacted documents.
McCown Co. may suspend or terminate a membership for misuse, fraud, harassment, abusive conduct, submission of falsified materials, nonpayment, or other material violations of this Agreement or the Terms of Service. Where a membership is terminated for cause, fees already paid are not refunded except where required by law. You may terminate this Agreement at any time by canceling as described above.
This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Missouri, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising out of this Agreement or your membership will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Missouri, and you consent to the jurisdiction of those courts.
We may update this Agreement from time to time. The revision date at the top of this page will reflect the most recent version. Material changes affecting membership pricing or billing will be communicated in advance. Continued membership after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised Agreement.
This Agreement, together with the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Legal Disclaimer, is the entire agreement between you and McCown Co. LLC regarding your membership. If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force.
Questions about membership may be directed to McCown Co. LLC by email at info@afftra.org or by telephone at (660) 221-9293.
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