Capacity

ROFR

Right of first refusal. A shipper's commitment to offer a lane's loads to one carrier before anyone else, usually the primary position in a routing guide earned at bid time. The carrier can still decline, and when it does the load moves down the waterfall to backup carriers and then to spot, so a ROFR sets the order of tendering rather than guaranteeing coverage.

Where this fits

Capacity comes in many shapes. Internal drivers, contracted carriers, gig couriers, autonomous units. Nash treats them as one pool ranked by the rules you set so each order goes to the option that best matches its promise instead of a static default.

Related terms

Tender: Offering a load to a carrier, who accepts or declines it before it becomes theirs. Freight and middle-mile operations tender down an ordered list, dedicated capacity first, then contracted, then spot, and each decline costs time. The last-mile equivalent is dispatch, which usually assigns rather than offers.
Hybrid fleet: A delivery operation that draws on internal drivers, contracted carriers, and gig couriers together rather than choosing one. The value is not owning several channels; it is treating them as a single capacity pool so each order routes to whatever best fits its promise. Orchestration is what makes a hybrid fleet act as one.
Crowdsourced delivery: Fulfilling deliveries with independent, non-dedicated drivers summoned on demand rather than a fixed roster. Capacity that flexes with the day, which Nash ranks alongside internal fleet and contracted carriers as one pool.
Vehicles: The physical units a delivery rides in: vans, trucks, e-bikes, motorcycles, drones, autonomous pods. In Nash, every vehicle is a tracked asset with capacity (cubes, weight, temperature class) and constraints (cold chain, regulated cargo, restricted zones) the dispatch engine reads against every job.
Gig courier: An independent driver dispatched per delivery through a marketplace (Uber, Roadie, Senpex, others). On-demand capacity that flexes with demand without taking on payroll.