Terms of Service

1.Acceptance of These Terms

Last updated September 2026

By using the DDC BUCKWAY, LLC website, booking a weigh desk review or rolling a vehicle onto the Pacific Avenue weighbridge, you agree to the terms in this document. If any part of these terms is not acceptable to you, please do not use the service, and if a vehicle is already on the approach, turn around before the plates.

These terms are a working agreement, written for people who run a yard and move bulk freight. They are not built to trap a reader. Every rule exists because the deck has learned, through years of hard miles, what keeps a weigh fair and a ticket defensible. Where the text is plain, read the plain meaning. Where it must be strict, it is strict for a reason you will see on the same page.

Continued use of the site or the depot after an update to these terms counts as acceptance of the new wording. The Company will mark the date of the latest version at the top of this page so you can tell exactly which terms apply to your pass.

2.Who These Terms Bind

These terms bind everyone who touches the operation in a working way. They cover the browsers who read the pages for information, the firms that book a depot service, the yard managers whose staff use a ticketing platform and the drivers who actually put weight on the scale.

• A person who only reads the site accepts the light terms that govern simple browsing.
• A yard that books a calibration or a weigh desk review accepts the fuller service terms.
• A driver or haulage firm that crosses the bridge accepts the terms that govern a weighing pass.

Where these groups differ, the section says so. Where they overlap, the stricter duty rules, because a single careless moment on a scale can undo a whole careful day. Nobody puts words in your mouth by these terms; they simply set out the deal you join the moment you act.

3.About DDC BUCKWAY, LLC

DDC BUCKWAY, LLC designs and runs computer systems for the heavy end of the haulage world. Its home deck is a pit weighbridge with crosstie timber, steel rail plates and a depot tally desk at 4040 Pacific Ave, Ogden - 84405-1512, United States (US). The firm operates in computer systems design, computing infrastructure and integrated systems for the freight that moves on its scales.

For the avoidance of waste, note the exact details the Company works under. Its registered business name is exactly DDC BUCKWAY, LLC, its published developer mark on this site is DDCBuckway, and its accounts are handled at the Pacific Avenue address above. Use the name exactly as printed on any invoice, because the right name on paper is the difference between a clean payment and a returned cheque.

4.Your Use of the Website

The website exists to explain the weighbridge and to let you reach the desk. Use it honestly and you will never have trouble with it. The terms that guard the site are short.

• You may read the pages, download a working copy for your own reference and share the address with a colleague who needs it.
• You may not scrape the site wholesale to rebuild your own service.
• You may not interfere with the security of the pages, overload the server or probe it for weaknesses.
• You may not impersonate the Company in an email or a booking.

The Company keeps the site as accurate as a living yard permits, but no page is a substitute for the words of a trained weighmaster. Where a screen number and a weigh ticket disagree, the weigh ticket made on the certified scale wins, and you should raise the difference with the desk rather than treat the screen as gospel.

5.The Weighing Service

The core offer is simple to state and hard to do well: a vehicle rolls onto the pit plates, the load cells settle, and the depot records a gross figure that both sides can rely on. The Company weighs to the tolerance its certified equipment allows and prints a ticket for every accepted pass.

• A full gross weight is read when a laden vehicle settles on the deck.
• A tare weight is read for a vehicle weighed empty, or is matched from a filed tare card for a known unit.
• A net weight is the arithmetic difference between the two, printed without a keystroke in between.

The Company does not control the load that arrives on the deck; it records what the plates feel. If the material in the box does not match the delivery note, the scale does not know and cannot guess. The weighing service is about truth of weight, and a truthful figure is all the Company promises to deliver.

6.Weigh Ticket Accuracy

A weigh ticket is the printed promise of the service. It carries the ticket number, the gross, the tare, the net and the time of the pass, and all of it is read direct from the certified scale head. The Company stands behind that figure to the tolerance of the equipment.

That backing has a horizon. The ticket is accurate for the vehicle and the load as they sat on the deck at the moment of the pass. Rain that soaks into a load after the gate, material that spills in transit or an unladen change made after weighing are not things the scale could have seen, and they are not things the ticket claims to cover.

7.Bookings and Calibration Windows

Scale calibrations, weigh desk reviews and kiosk rollouts run on the calendar. When a yard books a window, the Company holds that time for the job and expects the same courtesy in return.

• Bookings are taken when both sides agree a date and a scope.
• The Company will confirm the window and the quiet-hour preference in writing before the work is listed.
• A yard that cancels late or fails to appear may forfeit the held slot, because the deck prepared its crew and its certified weights for that day.

Certified test weights do not grow on trees. They are hauled, guarded and dropped on a schedule, and a no-show wastes that whole transport. For this reason the Company asks for reliable notice and rewards a yard that gives it by guarding that yard place when the next open window is announced.

8.Fees, Charges and Payment

Weighing and depot services are paid for in the manner agreed before the work begins. A casual weighing pass is settled at the gate on the current posted rate. A booked calibration or a systems rollout is invoiced under the terms written in your service agreement or proposal.

• All charges are stated plainly and without a buried fee ladder.
• Invoices fall due within the days shown on the face of the invoice.
• Late settlement may pause further weighing or a live kiosk account until the account is current.
• Taxes apply where the law requires them and appear separately on the invoice.

The Company does not surprise a customer with a fee invented after the fact. If a figure was not mentioned before the work, it will not appear on the bill. Where a change in scope genuinely arrives mid-job, the desk agrees the extra cost in writing before that extra work begins, so no invoice ever arrives as a shock.

9.Yard Manager Responsibilities

The best weigh days happen where the yard and the scale work as one crew. The Company does its part without complaint, and it asks the same of the yard that books its deck.

• Keep the approach and the deck free so a vehicle can roll on without a choreography lesson.
• Have an authorised person ready to accept the ticket and answer a kiosk prompt.
• Tell the desk ahead if a delivery order is unusual, such as an oversized rig or a staged load.
• Keep the yard side of any shared ledger current so the ticket count matches the running tally.

None of this asks for heroics; it asks for the ordinary discipline of a working depot. A yard that keeps its side tidy gets a faster pass, a cleaner ticket and a calibration that does not eat into a busy afternoon. A yard that does not may still be weighed, but the waiting time grows and the patience wears thin.

10.Driver and Carrier Responsibilities

When you drive onto the scale, you join a working procedure. To keep that procedure fair and fast, the Company asks drivers and their carriers to observe a few settled rules.

• Come to a full stop on the deck and stay still until the weighmaster clears you.
• Do not move on or off the plates until the signal, so the load cells get one clean reading.
• Declare nothing you cannot answer for, and present the delivery note that matches the load.
• Roll off only when your ticket is printed and you have read it at the kiosk if one stands at the gate.

A driver who moves early ruins the reading and adds a full second weigh to everyone behind them. Stay put, read your slip and, if a number looks off, ask there and then. That small discipline is the whole difference between a smooth morning and a stand-off at the gate.

11.Access to Ticketing and Kiosk Systems

Where the Company provides a ticketing platform or a driver kiosk portal, use is granted as a licence, not a transfer of ownership. The software stays the property of DDC BUCKWAY, LLC and its suppliers, and you receive the right to run it for your weighing business only.

• Accounts are for the people the yard names, and login details are not to be shared beyond them.
• The platform is to be used for genuine weighing records, not for building a rival service.
• You may not reverse engineer, copy or resell the software without written leave from the Company.

This licence lives exactly as long as the service agreement behind it. When the agreement ends, the licence ends, the yard returns what belongs to the Company and keeps the copy of its own records the law allows it to hold. No drama, no locked-in hostage files; just a clean hand-over of the data that was always yours.

12.Limitations of Liability

Every service carries a limit of liability that the law allows a firm to set. The Company states its limits plainly so a yard can see the shape of the deal before it books.

• The Company is not liable for loss that flows from a load, a schedule or a road decision it never controlled.
• Liability is capped at the amount the customer paid for the particular weighing service that caused the loss, save where the law forbids a cap.
• Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as liability for death or injury caused by negligence or for fraud.

These limits are not an attempt to shrug off real harm; they are the settled shape of a commercial scale where the sum at risk through a ticket is often many times the price of the weigh. Both sides carry insurance for the bigger picture, and the Company expects any carrier to carry its own. A weigh is a snapshot of a moment, not a guarantee of an entire haul.

13.Intellectual Property

Everything the Company makes and shows belongs to it: the pages of the site, the wording of its brochures, the design of its ticketing screens, the shape of its weigh tickets and the name DDC BUCKWAY along with the DDCBuckway developer mark. No text here grants you ownership of any of it.

• You may read and share the site with attribution.
• You may not copy the pages wholesale, republish the brochure under another name or file the Company marks as your own.
• Data you bring to the scale, such as your delivery notes and your records, stays yours.

The fence is a friendly one. The Company is glad to be quoted and happy to be recommended, and it only draws the line where someone takes the work itself and presents it as a new invention. Keep your name on your records and leave the DDC BUCKWAY marks where they already belong, on the depot that earned them.

14.Acceptance and Rejection of Loads

Not every vehicle that arrives must be weighed. The Company keeps the ordinary right of a working gate to decide what passes, and it exercises that right without malice and for obvious safety reasons.

• A vehicle too large or too heavy for the certified deck may be refused until a route and an allowance are agreed.
• A rig that looks unsafe, leaking or overloaded to the eye may be declined at the approach.
• A driver who is abusive or who interferes with the weigh may be refused service.

Where a load is refused, the Company explains why in a couple of sentences rather than leaving anyone guessing. A refusal is never about the person and always about the plate: the deck will not be put past the weight its certificate allows, and the crew will not be put at risk for the sake of a single rush.

15.Commodity Descriptions and Declared Loads

The scale weighs, and it weighs honestly, but it does not verify the story the load tells. When you declare a commodity or a destination, the Company records that declaration on the manifest as information given, trusting the driver and the delivery note to be truthful.

• A declared gross on a delivery note is checked against the live reading where the two should match.
• Where they differ, the live certified reading governs the ticket, and the difference is noted for the desk to resolve.
• The Company is not the inspector of the material itself; that duty belongs to the shipper and the hauler.

16.Third Party Services and Links

The Company works with a small ring of trusted partners, and its pages may point to services it does not run. Each of those belongs to someone else, with its own terms and its own rules.

• Hosting, ticketing software and calibration equipment are supplied under partner agreements the Company manages itself.
• A link to an outside site is a convenience and not a promise about that site conduct.
• Your use of a third party service is governed by that party terms, which you should read before you rely on them.

The Company answers for the service it names on the ticket. It does not answer for a target site that changes its behaviour the moment you leave. Treat an outgoing link as a new gate with a new guard, and read its own notice at the door.

17.Temporary Shutdown and Downtime

A live scale occasionally must stand still, for a certified test, a repair or a software patch. The Company keeps those stops as short and as early-warned as it can.

• Planned calibration and maintenance windows are published at the desk and on the booking calendar.
• Website and kiosk downtime is mended as fast as the crew can reach it, without a standing fee for the minutes lost.
• No weighing happens during a window when the deck is not certified, because a ticket off an uncertified plate is not a ticket worth having.

The honest cost of a weigh is that sometimes the deck must close to stay true. The Company would rather turn a rig away for an hour than hand it a number the next scale will not back. Where a booked service is lost to a Company shutdown, the fee is returned or the slot rebooked at no charge.

18.Indemnity

Where a customer brings its own people, its own vehicles and its own material to the deck, it agrees to hold the Company harmless against claims that flow from that customer own conduct. In plain terms: what you cause through your own doing at the gate stays with you to answer.

• Damage a customer vehicle does to the deck or to another vehicle is the customer matter to resolve.
• An unlawful or hazardous load a customer brings is that customer responsibility to declare and to insure.
• The indemnity does not reach harm the Company causes through its own carelessness; the law keeps that line in the Company lap.

This section is about fairness of blame, not a grab at cover. The Company insures its own deck and expects carriers to insure their own rigs. When something breaks because one side dropped the ball, that side answers, and nobody spends a season pointing at the other fellow.

19.Changes to These Terms

The depot, like the freight it weighs, shifts over time. When these terms change, the Company updates this page, stamps the new date at the top and gives the working world a moment to breathe before the new wording bites.

• A change that narrows your rights is announced clearly rather than slipped in.
• A material change takes effect a reasonable period after it is posted, so you can read it at leisure.
• Using the site or the deck after that period counts as accepting the updated terms.

The Company does not rewrite its terms to win a fight it already lost. Change is for honest reasons: a new legal rule, a changed service or a lesson the deck learned. If you ever dislike the direction, the door is open and the desk is happy to talk before you walk.

20.Governing Law and Disputes

Because the deck stands in California on Pacific Avenue, the terms of these rules are governed by the law of the United States and the State of California in the ordinary territory sense, without regard to any rule that would pull in the law of another place.

• Before any court is involved, the Company asks both sides to talk and, if talk stalls, to try a reasonable mediation first.
• Any legal action that cannot be settled by talk is brought in the courts that hold authority over the Ogden area.
• Each side pays its own costs unless the court orders otherwise, and no action may proceed beyond the window the law sets for it.

Disputes about weight are overwhelmingly solved by the re-weigh, and disputes about paperwork are solved by the record book. It is a rare argument that needs a courtroom, and the Company treats that rarity as a sign of a deck that runs as it should, not of a firm that hides behind its lawyers.

21.How to Contact the Company

A question, a booking or a dispute should start at the desk, where the answer lives closest. The full business details are printed here exactly as they appear on the weigh ticket.

The crew reads email during working hours and answers the phone line through the day. If your matter is urgent at the deck, the quickest route is the phone. If it needs a paper trail, an email gives you the record you can keep. However you arrive, you will be dealt with by a person who knows the scale and who can act on the answer.