Last Modified: January 5, 2026
Independent Contractors Network, Inc. (“ICN”) through its proprietary system, LOADCHIEF, found at www.LOADCHIEF.com (“LOADCHIEF”) connects INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS to DELIVERY COMPANIES using real time postings to create a marketplace of independent drivers free of a single point of employment. The LOADCHIEF website is designed to enable LOADCHIEF system members to interact with one another in such a manner so that INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS can act independently. INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS schedule their routes by accepting pickup and delivery assignments from any number of DELIVERY COMPANIES who are members of LOADCHIEF. DELIVERY COMPANIES post jobs for bidding in search of Independent Contractors within close proximity to accept LOADCHIEF Jobs. If used properly and adequately, DELIVERY COMPANIES and Independent Contractors may derive economic benefits associated with published guidelines for independent contractors that may be found at www.irs.gov, among other places.
This DELIVERY COMPANY UNDERSTANDING is an integral part of the User Agreement accepted by you in becoming a DELIVERY COMPANY. By becoming a DELIVERY COMPANY you are agreeing to the below terms and conditions, in addition to those set forth in the User Agreement. You understand and agree that LOADCHIEF is not rendering any tax or labor law advice or counsel and that your use of LOADCHIEF is not as anything other than as a jobs board. You as the DELIVERY COMPANY warrant that you will seek the advice and counsel of your own choosing to determine whether or to what extent it is establishing independent contractor relationships. You as the DELIVERY COMPANY agree and represent that you have sought independent counsel prior to entering into the User Agreement and this DELIVERY COMPANY UNDERSTANDING that you do so with the understanding that as a DELIVERY COMPANY you are not relying upon any tax or labor law advice from LOADCHIEF.
1. Instructions:
An employee receives instructions about when, where and how the work is to be performed. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, will do the job their own way with few, if any, instructions as to the details or methods of the work. As the DELIVERY COMPANY you will post to LOADCHIEF.COM the minimal instructions necessary for the INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR to otherwise complete the Job.
2. Training:
Employees are often trained by a more experienced employee or are required to attend meetings or take training courses. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, will use their own methods and thus need not receive training from the DELIVERY COMPANY. The INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR will use their own vehicle to pick and deliver packages by the date and time requested by you as the DELIVERY COMPANY.
3. Integration:
Services of an employee are usually merged into the employer’s overall operation; the employer’s success depends on those employee services. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR’S services, on the other hand, are separate from the DELIVERY COMPANY’S business and are not integrated or merged with those of you as the DELIVERY COMPANY.
4. Services Rendered Personally:
An employee’s services must be rendered personally. An employee does not hire their own substitutes or delegate work to them. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, vetted through LOADCHIEF, is not able to assign another person to complete the Job who is not also An Independent Contractor, and if unable to complete the Job, LOADCHIEF states how they must communicate with the DELIVERY COMPANY to avoid a delay in pick up or delivery. This restriction is as a result of the vetting process established by LOADCHIEF and the expectation DELIVERY COMPANIES have that a vetted INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR will complete the task.
5. Hiring, Supervising & Paying Helper:
An employee may act as a foreman for the employer but, if so, helpers are paid with the employer’s funds. INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, on the other hand, select, hire, pay and supervise any helpers used and are responsible for the results of the helpers’ labor, subject to the restrictions set forth in section 4, above; however, An Independent Contractor may hire helpers to assist in tracking their whereabouts and enabling them to more efficiently perform the Job and increase profitability throughout the day.
6. Continuing Relationship:
An Employee often continues to work for the same employer month after month or year after year. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, agrees with you to do one job of a limited or definite duration and there is no expectation of continuing work.
7. Set Hours of Work:
An employee may work “on call” or during hours and days as set by the employer. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, is their own boss, the master of their own time and they decide how many hours to work a day, a week or a month. When you, as a DELIVERY COMPANY, or they, as An Independent Contractor, may want to make more money, you each take on more customers, clients, or as the case may be, Jobs, but not at all time with one another, but rather, you get the work done through LOADCHIEF.
8. Full Tome Required:
An employee ordinarily devotes full-time service to the employer, or the employer may have a priority on the employee’s time. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, must not devote full-time service to any one DELIVERY COMPANY exclusively and one DELIVERY COMPANY cannot and must not captivate all of one Independent Contractor’s time. To be An Independent Contractor they must bid on and accept Jobs from various LOADCHIEF COMPANIES, otherwise their status as An Independent Contractor may be jeopardized, as would that of LOADCHIEF itself, as each would be compromising the integrity of the LOADCHIEF System.
9. Location Where Services Performed:
Employment is indicated if the employer has the right to mandate where services are performed. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, ordinarily will work where they choose. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR’S workplace will be away from the DELIVERY COMPANY’S offices and away from the offices or location of the customer from whom they will pick up or deliver Jobs. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR’S workplace may be where the work takes them at any given time and not necessarily the same place at all times.
10. Order or Sequence Set:
An employee performs services in the order or sequence set by the employer. This shows control by the employer. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, is concerned only with the one Job, or sequence of Jobs, making sure that during the day they are able to timely pick up and deliver Jobs, and may order their route to increase their own efficiencies and profitability.
11. Oral or Writen Reports:
An employee may be required to submit regular oral or written reports about the work in progress. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, is not required to submit regular oral or written reports about the work in progress; however, the LOADCHIEF System will enable the DELIVERY COMPANY to track progress using our tracking systems and programs and the INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR will have the requirement to report to the LOADCHIEF System that the package was delivered, thereby enabling invoicing.
12. Payment by the Hour, Week or Month:
An employee typically is paid by the employer in regular amounts stated intervals, such as by the hour or week. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, will be paid by the Job, either a negotiated flat rate or upon submission of a bid, and will be paid through a third-party payment platform either within 24 to 48 hours or per invoice stating the Job and price.
13. Business and Travel Expenses:
An employee’s business and travel expenses are either paid directly or reimbursed by the employer. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, will be fully and completely responsible for their business and travel expenses without reimbursement from the DELIVERY COMPANY. The INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR will take into consideration the cost associated with performing the Job before accepting it, since An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR’S profitability is in their own hands. A DELIVERY COMPANY will consider, as well, the cost associated with delivering the Job when pricing the Job before posting on the Jobs Board, understanding that the marketplace created through LOADCHIEF will dictate to the DELIVERY COMPANY whether the pricing is fair.
14. Furnishing Tools & Equipment:
An employee is furnished all necessary tools, materials, and equipment by the employer for the purpose of enabling the employee to complete the tasks assigned as directed by the employer. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, will provide all of the tools and equipment necessary to complete the Job, including without limitation, their own vehicle, cell phone, computer (tablet computer), clothes, fuel, maintenance of their vehicle, hats, shirts, etc., and the DELIVERY COMPANY will not require them or provide them with any items of clothing or equipment that names the DELIVERY COMPANY or would identify the DELIVERY COMPANY mistakenly as the INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR’S employer.
15. Significant Investment:
An employee generally has little or no investment in the business. Instead, an employee is economically dependent on the employer. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, has a substantial financial investment in their independent business. They will have a separate tax identification number for their independent business that refers and relates to the business as a corporation or as a fictitious business name (dba). They will have a business card that has all contact information necessary for DELIVERY COMPANIES to identify them with that business, to send payments in the name of that business, and to issue all necessary state and federal tax reporting in the name of that business. They may have and will be encouraged to have a separate internet domain on which they advertise their business and from which they can be identified as conducting their business of package pick-up and delivery.
16. Realize or Loss:
An employee does not ordinarily realize a profit or loss in the business. Rather, as long as employed, employees are paid for services rendered, regardless of employer’s financial condition. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, can either realize a profit or suffer a loss, with an expectation of continuing depending an ability to manage their business and to maximize their use of LOADCHIEF to assist them in becoming more efficient and profitable as an independent business.
17. Working for More than One Form at a Time:
An employee ordinarily works for one employer at a time and may be prohibited from joining a competitor. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, will work for more than one DELIVERY COMPANY at the same time and is not subject to a noncompetition rule with the DELIVERY COMPANY; in fact, working for more than one DELIVERY COMPANY is encouraged to maintain the integrity of the LOADCHIEF System.
18. Making Available to the Public:
An employee does not make services available to the public, except through the employer’s company. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, may advertise, carry business cards, hang out a shingle, maintain a separate domain and internet address, or hold a separate business license; and LOADCHIEF encourages them to do some or all of these things to market their availability to other LOADCHIEF COMPANIES.
19. Right to Discharge Without Liability:
An employee can be discharged at any time without liability on the employer’s part. If An Independent Contractor, on the other hand, who is accessing LOADCHIEF subject to the terms and conditions of the LOADCHIEF USER AGREEMENT, performs their work and delivers the Job at, when, how, and where agreed upon with the DELIVERY COMPANY, the DELIVERY COMPANY cannot deny them payment without there being possible liability for breach of contract.
20. Right to Quit without Liability:
An employee may quit work at any time without liability on the employee’s part. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, on the other hand, is legally responsible for Job completion and, in the event they do not complete the Job by delivering it by, when, how and where agreed to with the DELIVERY COMPANY may become liable for breach of contract.
21. Prohibition to Solicit, Oursue or Contact Delivery Company’s Clients or Customers:
As a DELIVERY COMPANY, who is accessing the LOADCHIEF System for the purpose of obtaining Jobs for your employer drivers, you are in that instance acting as if you were An Independent Contractor who will not directly or indirectly contact, solicit, or otherwise “poach” in any manner clients or customers of any other DELIVERY COMPANY, whose client or customer identity is obtained as a result of your accessing LOADCHIEF for the purpose of obtaining Jobs that will be completed by your employee drivers.
22. Insurance Requirements:
An employee through their employer will be provided workers’ compensation insurance, the vehicles the employee drives for the employer while working for them will be insured through insurance paid for by the employer, and the employer may pay for other insurance coverages as may be required by their customers and at their choice to cover risk. An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR need not have insurance coverage that you, as the DELIVERY COMPANY, may require. If An INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR does not have the insurance coverage you require the INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR may not qualify them to accept certain jobs posted by DELIVERY COMPANIES. As An Independent Contractor, while they are driving under dispatch through the LOADCHIEF platform they are insured for occupational accident insurance and cargo insurance. INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, through the INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR UNDERSTANDING, are told that many DELIVERY COMPANIES require INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS have minimum coverage for motor vehicles of 100/300/100 or 300,000 combined single limits (CSL) for all vehicles under 10,000 GVW and that those vehicles over 100,000 GVW, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS will need commercial insurance to register. As a DELIVERY COMPANY, when setting up the required qualifications for a Job to be accepted, it is up to you to set the insurance requirements.
