Overview
Freight operators, 3PLs, last-mile platforms and rideshare-adjacent businesses juggle carriage terms, driver arrangements and heavy-vehicle compliance. We draft the terms that let logistics businesses scale without absorbing the customer's risk.
Common challenges
Where we're usually pulled in.
- Carriage terms and limitation of liability
- Driver contractor vs employee classification
- Heavy Vehicle National Law and chain-of-responsibility
- Warehousing, bailment and lien arrangements
How we help
Services tuned for this industry.
Carriage & 3PL terms
Standard carriage terms, warehousing agreements and customer-facing service level frameworks.
Driver arrangements
Contractor and employment agreements structured against Fair Work and ATO tests.
Compliance advice
Chain-of-responsibility, HVNL and fatigue-management policy support.
FAQs
Questions we hear often.
- Can you defend a customer claim for damaged goods?
- Yes — carriage-liability disputes are a regular part of our work, along with rewriting the terms that caused the exposure.
Talk to us
Legal built for transport & logistics.
Send us a note about what you're working on. We'll respond within one business day and, if we're a fit, book a free 15-minute consultation with a senior lawyer.