Terms And Conditions

Terms And Conditions

  1. The Company shall not be responsible for damage to fragile articles, such as silk lamp shades, ornaments, paintings, china, glassware, pictures, or damage to books, etc., packed in boxes or barrels, unless packed and unpacked by our packers, nor for loss contents of any container that has not been packed or unpacked by our packers. 

 

  1. The Company shall not be responsible for the mechanical functions of pianos, radios, television, clocks, mechanical refrigerators, or other instruments or appliances whether or not such articles are packed, unpacked by the shipper or his agent or carrier or its agents. The Company shall not be liable for damage to linoleum or day heating elements of gas or electric heaters. 

 

  1. The Company shall not be held liable for loss or damage to contents if handling insurance is waived. 

 

  1. If piano or other articles are too large for stairways or porches and require hosting and lowering, customer shall pay for each such hosting or lowering operation as additional. 

 

  1. The Company shall not be liable for the loss or damage to any documents, records, jewelry or any other articles, unless identified under Declaration of Values. 

 

  1. The Company shall not be responsible for uncrated mirrors, sheet glass, marble, or for the customer to pack lamps, lamp shades, and any fragile articles such as ornaments, paintings, china, glassware, pictures, etc. 

 

  1. The Company shall not be liable for loss of contents of pieces of furniture, crates, bundles, cartons, boxes, barrels or other containers unless such contents are open for carrier’s inspection and then only for such articles as are specifically listed by the shipper and receipted for by the carrier or its agents. 

 

  1. Where goods are stopped and held in transit at the request of the party entitled to request it, the goods are held at risk of the owner. 

 

  1. No carrier is bound to transport the goods by any particular public commercial vehicle or in time for any particular market or other- wise than with due dispatch unless by agreement specifically endorsed on the bill of lading and signed by the parties thereto.

     

  2. No carrier or party in possession of all or any of the property herein described shall be liable to delay caused by highway obstruction, faulty or impassable highway, lack or capacity of any highway, bridge, ferry, or caused by breakdown 

bridge, ferry, or caused by breakdown or mechanical defect of vehicle or equipment. 

 

  1. If such goods are carried without special agreement and the nature of the goods is not disclosed hereon, the carrier shall not be liable for any loss or damage thereto.
     
  2. Every person whether as principal or agent, shipping explosives or dangerous goods without previous full written disclosure to the carrier or his agent, or their nature, shall indemnify the carrier against all loss, damage or injury caused thereby and the goods may be warehoused at the risk and expense of the owner of the goods, unless the carrier has the right to transport such articles.

  3. Any alteration, addition or ensure in a bill of lading shall be signed or initialed by the parties thereto.

14. The carrier shall not be liable for where the carrier is directed to take property from a place or places are which the consignor or his agent is not present, the property shall be at the risk of the owner before loading and goods shall be delivered at owners risk at places where no authorized person is present to receipt same.