These terms govern your use of this website and your Co-Founder membership with McCown Co. LLC.
Last updated: August 4, 2026
Last Revised: August 4, 2026
These Terms of Service (the "Terms") govern your access to and use of the McCownUSA website, member portal, communications, programs, and Co-Founder membership offered by McCown Co. LLC, a Missouri limited liability company ("McCown Co.," "we," "us," or "our"). By using this website or purchasing a membership, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the website or purchase a membership.
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 we have no subpoena power.
Subject to these Terms, McCown Co. provides educational materials, research, published reports, advocacy campaigns, member communications, organizational programs, and opportunities to participate in lawful legislative outreach. We support legal research, regulatory filings, compliance review, referrals, and selected efforts approved by counsel. Services may be added, modified, suspended, or discontinued at any time.
You must be at least 18 years of age to purchase or hold a membership. By purchasing a membership 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.
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.
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 presented to you and the terms that apply to your membership.
Both plans renew automatically. Monthly memberships renew each month and annual memberships renew each year, using the payment method on file, until canceled. You authorize McCown Co. and its payment processor to charge that payment method for each renewal term.
You may cancel your membership at any time. Members may:
Cancellation stops future charges. It does not automatically refund a current monthly or annual term.
Membership fees are nonrefundable except where required by law. Because membership fees are not a charitable contribution, they are not tax deductible as charitable donations. Consult your own tax advisor regarding any business-expense treatment.
Membership pricing may change in the future. We will provide advance notice of any price change before it takes effect for your membership, and you may cancel before the new price applies.
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.
Opportunities to provide feedback on organizational programs and priorities may be offered to members. Member feedback is advisory and does not create voting or governance rights.
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.
You retain your own rights in materials you submit. Do not submit materials that you are contractually or legally prohibited from disclosing, and do not submit information belonging to another person without authority.
You agree not to use this website, your membership, or any McCown Co. program to:
We may suspend or terminate a membership or website access for misuse, fraud, harassment, abusive conduct, submission of falsified materials, nonpayment, or other material violations of these Terms. Where a membership is terminated for cause, fees already paid are not refunded except where required by law.
The McCown Co. and McCownUSA names, logos, site content, reports, graphics, and educational materials are owned by McCown Co. LLC or its licensors and are protected by applicable law. Members may share published public materials in unmodified form with attribution. Members may not sell, relabel, or commercially redistribute member-only materials without written permission.
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.
McCown Co. does not set current market rates, facilitate pricing agreements among competitors, coordinate bids, allocate customers or loads, operate a load board, or organize collective refusals to transport freight.
Nothing on this website, in member materials, or in communications from McCown Co. or its representatives is legal advice. Membership does not guarantee individual legal representation, create an attorney-client relationship, or guarantee a particular legal or regulatory result. Consult a licensed attorney regarding your specific situation.
The website, membership, and all materials are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or noninfringement. We do not warrant that the website will be uninterrupted, error free, or secure, or that published information is complete or current.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, McCown Co. LLC and its members, managers, officers, representatives, volunteers, and agents will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost business, or lost data, arising out of or relating to your use of the website or your membership. Our total aggregate liability for any claim will not exceed the total membership fees you paid to McCown Co. in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so portions of this section may not apply to you.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless McCown Co. LLC and its representatives from claims, damages, and expenses arising out of materials you submit, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Missouri, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising out of these Terms 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 these Terms from time to time. The revision date at the top of this page will be updated when we do. Material changes affecting membership billing will be communicated in advance. Continued use of the website or membership after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
Questions about these Terms may be directed to McCown Co. LLC by email at info@afftra.org or by telephone at (660) 221-9293.
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