About us

Who?
With a combined experience of over 20 years in the Transport&Logistics branche, Mark van Dijk and Niek van Avendonk
founded RouteRunner-auction to optimize and simplify the connection between distributors and transporters.
By analyzing the current market, relying on their own experiences and listening to coworkers and competitors in their branche
they decided that it should be easier, faster and cheaper to find transport for (special) shipments and for transporters to find
fitting and available cargo all around the globe.

What?
RouteRunner-auction is created to be the middle-man between distributor and transporter. For a small fee we make sure that
your shipment is available for, and seen by, numerous transport companies and independent drivers. They can offer their best
possible prices by placing a bid. You can decide when the auction ends by accepting one of the bids.
This will almost guarantee a quick and fitting solution for the best possible price!

For?
RouteRunner-auction can be the base of operations for both distributors or selling parties and transport companies or independent drivers.
Are you a transport planner, looking for a way to ship cargo that does not fit within the agreements between you and your current transporter?
Do you have a special delivery, but no idea yet how to get it to the customer?
Do you want to make sure to get the best price for transport, without spending all your time in contacting tons of different companies?

Are you tired of driving around empty, because you didn't find a decent load on time?
Do you have trouble finding the time to look for shipments and you feel like you could spend this time in a better way?

It sounds like RouteRunner-auction can make your life a lot easier!

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS RouteRunner-auction

E-mail: info@routerunner-auction.com
Website: www.routerunner-auction.com

Definitions

1. RouteRunner-auction: RouteRunner-auction, established in Veghel, Chamber of Commerce no. 95409041.

2. Customer: the party which RouteRunner-auction has entered into an agreement with.

3. Parties: RouteRunner-auction and customer together.

4. Consumer: a customer who is an individual acting for private purposes.

Applicability

1. These terms and conditions will apply to all quotations, offers, activities, orders, agreements and deliveries of services or products by or on behalf of RouteRunner-auction.

2. Parties can only deviate from these conditions if they have explicitly agreed upon in writing.

3. The parties expressly exclude the applicability of supplementary and/or deviating general terms and conditions of the customer or of third parties.

Prices

1. All prices used by RouteRunner-auction are in euros, are inclusive of VAT and exclusive of any other costs such as administration costs, levies and travel-, shipping- or transport expenses, unless expressly stated otherwise or agreed otherwise.
Prices will be ?10 for each uploaded shipment (customer/offering party) and ?10 for each accepted transport (consumer/transporting party).

2. RouteRunner-auction is entitled to adjust all prices for its products or services, shown in its shop, on its website or otherwise, at any time.

3. The parties agree on a total price for a service provided by RouteRunner-auction. This is always a target price, unless the parties have explicitly agreed upon in writing on a fixed price, which cannot be deviated from.

4. RouteRunner-auction is entitled to deviate up to 10% of the target price.

5. If the target price exceeds 10%, RouteRunner-auction must let the customer know in due time why a higher price is justified.

6. If the target price exceeds 10%, the customer has the right to cancel the part of the order that exceeds the target price by 10%.

7. RouteRunner-auction has the right to adjust prices annually.

8. RouteRunner-auction will communicate price adjustments to the customer prior to the moment the price increase becomes effective.

9. The consumer has the right to terminate the contract with RouteRunner-auction if he does not agree with the price increase.

Payments and payment term

1. RouteRunner-auction uses periodical invoicing for the payment, within a time frame of 4 weeks.

2. The customer must have paid the full amount within 7 days after receiving the invoice.

3. Payment terms are considered as fatal payment terms. This means that if the customer has not paid the agreed amount at the latest on the last day of the payment term, he is legally in default, without RouteRunner-auction having to send the customer a reminder or to put him in default.

4. RouteRunner-auction reserves the right to make a delivery conditional upon immediate payment or to require adequate security for the total amount of the services or products.

Consequences of late payment

1. If the customer does not pay within the agreed term, RouteRunner-auction is entitled to charge an interest per month for non-commercial transactions and an interest per month for commercial transactions from the day the customer is in default, whereby a part of a month is counted for a whole month.

2. When the customer is in default, he is also due to extrajudicial collection costs and may be obliged to pay any compensation to RouteRunner-auction.

3. The collection costs are calculated on the basis of the Reimbursement for extrajudicial collection costs.

4. If the customer does not pay on time, RouteRunner-auction may suspend its obligations until the customer has met his payment obligation.

5. In the event of liquidation, bankruptcy, attachment or suspension of payment on behalf of the customer, the claims of RouteRunner-auction on the customer are immediately due and payable.

6. If the customer refuses to cooperate with the performance of the agreement by RouteRunner-auction, he is still obliged to pay the agreed price to RouteRunner-auction.

Suspension of obligations by the customer

The customer waives the right to suspend the fulfillment of any obligation arising from this agreement.

Settlement

The customer waives his right to settle any debt to RouteRunner-auction with any claim on RouteRunner-auction.

Insurance

1. The customer undertakes to insure and keep insured the following items adequately against fire, explosion and water damage as well as theft:

· goods delivered that are necessary for the execution of the underlying agreement

· goods being property of RouteRunner-auction that are present at the premises of the customer

· goods that have been delivered under retention of title

2. At the first request of RouteRunner-auction, the customer provides the policy for these insurances for inspection.

Guarantee

When parties have entered into an agreement with services included, these services only contain best-effort obligations for RouteRunner-auction, not obligations of results.

Performance of the agreement

1. RouteRunner-auction executes the agreement to the best of its knowledge and ability and in accordance with the requirements of good workmanship.

2. RouteRunner-auction has the right to have the agreed services (partially) performed by third parties.

3. The execution of the agreement takes place in mutual consultation and after written agreement and payment of the possibly agreed advance by the customer.

4. It is the responsibility of the customer that RouteRunner-auction can start the implementation of the agreement on time.

5. If the customer has not ensured that RouteRunner-auction can start the implementation of the agreement in time, the resulting additional costs and/or extra hours will be charged to the customer.

Duty to inform by the customer

1. The customer shall make available to RouteRunner-auction all information, data and documents relevant to the correct execution of the agreement to in time and in the desired format and manner.

2. The customer guarantees the correctness, completeness and reliability of the information, data and documents made available, even if they originate from third parties, unless otherwise ensuing from the nature of the agreement.

3. If and insofar as the customer requests this, RouteRunner-auction will return the relevant documents.

4. If the customer does not timely and properly provides the information, data or documents reasonably required by RouteRunner-auction and the execution of the agreement is delayed because of this, the resulting additional costs and extra hours will be charged to the customer.

Intellectual property

1. RouteRunner-auction retains all intellectual property rights (including copyright, patent rights, trademark rights, design and design rights, etc.) on all designs, drawings, writings, data carriers or other information, quotations, images, sketches, models, scale models, etc., unless parties have agreed otherwise in writing.

2. The customer may not copy or have copied the intellectual property rights without prior written permission from RouteRunner-auction, nor show them to third parties and / or make them available or use them in any other way.

Confidentiality

1. The client keeps any information he receives (in whatever form) from RouteRunner-auction confidential.

2. The same applies to all other information concerning RouteRunner-auction of which he knows or can reasonably suspect that it is secret or confidential, or of which it can expect that its disclosure may cause damage to RouteRunner-auction.

3. The customer takes all necessary measures to ensure that he keeps the information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 secret.

4. The obligation of secrecy described in this article does not apply to information:

· which was already made public before the customer heard this information or which later became public without being the result of a violation of the customer's duty to confidentiality

· which is made public by the customer due to a legal obligation

5. The confidentiality obligation described in this article applies for the duration of the underlying agreement and for a period of 3 years after the end thereof.

Penalties

1. If the customer violates the articles of these general terms and conditions about secrecy or intellectual property, then he forfeits on behalf of RouteRunner-auction an immediately due and payable fine of ? 1.000 if the customer is a consumer and ? 5.000 if the customer is a company, for each violation and in addition an amount of 5% of the aforementioned amount for each day that this violation continues.

2. No actual damage, prior notice of default or legal proceedings are required in forfeiting the fine referred to in the first paragraph of this article.

3. The forfeiture of the fine referred to in the first paragraph of this article shall not affect the other rights of RouteRunner-auction including its right to claim compensation in addition to the fine.

Indemnity

The customer indemnifies RouteRunner-auction against all third-party claims that are related to the products and/or services supplied by RouteRunner-auction.

Complaints

1. The customer must examine a product or service provided by RouteRunner-auction as soon as possible for possible shortcomings.

2. If a delivered product or service does not comply with what the customer could reasonably expect from the agreement, the customer must inform RouteRunner-auction of this as soon as possible, but in any case within 1 month after the discovery of the shortcomings.

3. Consumers must inform RouteRunner-auction of this within two months after detection of the shortcomings.

4. The customer gives a detailed description as possible of the shortcomings, so that RouteRunner-auction is able to respond adequately.

5. The customer must demonstrate that the complaint relates to an agreement between the parties.

6. If a complaint relates to ongoing work, this can in any case not lead to RouteRunner-auction being forced to perform other work than has been agreed.

Giving notice

1. The customer must provide any notice of default to RouteRunner-auction in writing.

2. It is the responsibility of the customer that a notice of default actually reaches RouteRunner-auction (in time).

Joint and several Client liabilities

If RouteRunner-auction enters into an agreement with several customers, each of them shall be jointly and severally liable for the full amounts due to RouteRunner-auction under that agreement.

Liability of RouteRunner-auction

1. RouteRunner-auction is only liable for any damage the customer suffers if and insofar as this damage is caused by intent or gross negligence.

2. If RouteRunner-auction is liable for any damage, it is only liable for direct damages that results from or is related to the execution of an agreement.

3. RouteRunner-auction is never liable for indirect damages, such as consequential loss, lost profit, lost savings or damage to third parties.

4. If RouteRunner-auction is liable, its liability is limited to the amount paid by a closed (professional) liability insurance and in the absence of (full) payment by an insurance company of the damages the amount of the liability is limited to the (part of the) invoice to which the liability relates.

5. All images, photos, colors, drawings, descriptions on the website or in a catalog are only indicative and are only approximate and cannot lead to any compensation and/or (partial) dissolution of the agreement and/or suspension of any obligation.

Expiry period

Every right of the customer to compensation from RouteRunner-auction shall, in any case, expire within 12 months after the event from which the liability arises directly or indirectly. This does not exclude the provisions in article 6:89 Dutch Civil Code.

Dissolution

1. The customer has the right to dissolve the agreement if RouteRunner-auction imputably fails in the fulfillment of his obligations, unless this shortcoming does not justify termination due to its special nature or because it is of minor significance.

2. If the fulfillment of the obligations by RouteRunner-auction is not permanent or temporarily impossible, dissolution can only take place after RouteRunner-auction is in default.

3. RouteRunner-auction has the right to dissolve the agreement with the customer, if the customer does not fully or timely fulfill his obligations under the agreement, or if circumstances give RouteRunner-auction good grounds to fear that the customer will not be able to fulfill his obligations properly.

Force majeure

1. In addition to the provisions of article 6:75 Dutch Civil Code, a shortcoming of RouteRunner-auction in the fulfillment of any obligation to the customer cannot be attributed to RouteRunner-auction in any situation independent of the will of RouteRunner-auction, when the fulfillment of its obligations towards the customer is prevented in whole or in part or when the fulfillment of its obligations cannot reasonably be required from RouteRunner-auction .

2. The force majeure situation referred to in paragraph 1 is also applicable - but not limited to: state of emergency (such as civil war, insurrection, riots, natural disasters, etc.); defaults and force majeure of suppliers, deliverymen or other third parties; unexpected disturbances of power, electricity, internet, computer or telecoms; computer viruses, strikes, government measures, unforeseen transport problems, bad weather conditions and work stoppages.

3. If a situation of force majeure arises as a result of which RouteRunner-auction cannot fulfill one or more obligations towards the customer, these obligations will be suspended until RouteRunner-auction can comply with it.

4. From the moment that a force majeure situation has lasted at least 30 calendar days, both parties may dissolve the agreement in writing in whole or in part.

5. RouteRunner-auction does not owe any (damage) compensation in a situation of force majeure, even if it has obtained any advantages as a result of the force majeure situation.

Modification of the agreement

If, after the conclusion of the agreement and before its implementation, it appears necessary to change or supplement its contents, the parties shall timely and in mutual consultation adjust the agreement accordingly.

Changes in the general terms and conditions

1. RouteRunner-auction is entitled to amend or supplement these general terms and conditions.

2. Changes of minor importance can be made at any time.

3. Major changes in content will be discussed by RouteRunner-auction with the customer in advance as much as possible.

4. Consumers are entitled to cancel the agreement in the event of a substantial change to the general terms and conditions.

Transfer of rights

1. The customer cannot transfer its rights deferring from an agreement with RouteRunner-auction to third parties without the prior written consent of RouteRunner-auction.

2. This provision applies as a clause with a property law effect as referred to in Section 3:83 (2) Dutch Civil Code.

Consequences of nullity or annullability

1. If one or more provisions of these general terms and conditions prove null or annullable, this will not affect the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

2. A provision that is null or annullable shall, in that case, be replaced by a provision that comes closest to what RouteRunner-auction had in mind when drafting the conditions on that issue.

Applicable law and competent court

1. Dutch law is exclusively applicable to all agreements between the parties.

2. The Dutch court in the district where RouteRunner-auction is established is exclusively competent in case of any disputes between parties, unless the law prescribes otherwise.

Attribution

These terms and conditions were created using a document from Rocket Lawyer (https://www.rocketlawyer.com/nl/nl).

Drawn up on 04 november 2024.