Industries

Lane

Transportation & Logistics. A recurring origin-to-destination route in freight. Carriers price and contract by lane (e.g., LA to Chicago); the same lane can carry very different rates depending on direction, season, and current capacity. Operators often use lane loosely for any recurring route, including the local delivery routes Nash would call a route.

Where this fits

Vertical-specific patterns shared by the operators Nash serves. BOPIS, click-and-collect, cold chain, ship-from-store, catering windows, multi-marketplace. Each carries operational nuance that Nash absorbs without forcing the operation to bend to the software.

Related terms

Chain of custody: Pharma, healthcare, age-restricted goods. Documented, signed-off handoffs that prove a controlled item moved through verified hands at every step. Required for prescriptions, lab samples, alcohol, tobacco, and high-value freight.
Backhaul: Transportation & Logistics. The return leg of a freight trip, ideally with cargo. Filling backhauls is the most direct way to kill empty miles and turn a one-way route into a round-trip economic.
Ship-from-store: Retail. Using a retail store's existing inventory as a fulfillment node for online orders. Turns excess store stock into same-day delivery capacity and shortens the last-mile leg from a regional DC to the customer.
Empty miles: Transportation & Logistics. Distance driven without cargo, which drivers and dispatchers call deadhead. The single biggest source of preventable cost waste in trucking. Industry average runs 15-25%; the right dispatch logic compresses it.
Curbside: Retail, grocery. Customer collection at the store entrance without going inside. The handoff happens in the parking lot, from store associate to driver. Cousin of BOPIS with a shorter dwell.