LEASES

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

We determine if our contractual agreements contain a lease at inception. A lease is identified when a contract allows us the right to control an identified asset for a period of time in exchange for consideration. Our lease agreements consist primarily of operating leases for office space, warehouses, office equipment, and trailers. We do not have material financing leases. Frequently, we enter into contractual relationships with a wide variety of transportation companies for freight capacity and utilize those relationships to efficiently and cost-effectively arrange the transport of our customers’ freight. These contracts typically have a term of twelve months or less and do not allow us to direct the use or obtain substantially all of the economic benefits of a specifically identified asset. Accordingly, these agreements are not considered leases.

Our operating leases are included on the consolidated balance sheets as right-of-use lease assets and lease liabilities. A right-of-use lease asset represents our right to use an underlying asset over the term of a lease, while a lease liability represents our obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Current and noncurrent lease liabilities are recognized on commencement date at the present value of lease payments, including non-lease components, which consist primarily of common area maintenance and parking charges. Right-of-use lease assets are also recognized on the commencement date as the total lease liability plus prepaid rents. As our leases typically do not provide an implicit rate, we use our fully collateralized incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments. The incremental borrowing rate is influenced by market interest rates, our credit rating, and lease term and as such, may differ for individual leases.

Our lease agreements typically do not contain variable lease payments, residual value guarantees, purchase options, or restrictive covenants. Many of our leases include the option to renew for a period of months to several years. The term of our leases may include the option to renew when it is reasonably certain we will exercise that option although these occurrences are seldom. We have lease agreements with lease components (e.g., payments for rent) and non-lease components (e.g., payments for common area maintenance and parking), which are all accounted for as a single lease component.

We do not have material lease agreements that have not yet commenced that are expected to create significant rights or obligations as of December 31, 2023.

Information regarding lease costs, other lease information, remaining lease term, and discount rate are presented below for the twelve months ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 and as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 (dollars in thousands):


	Twelve Months Ended December 31,
Lease Costs	2023		2022		2021
Operating lease expense	$	100,635	$	92,032	$	85,521
Short-term lease expense	5,377		7,151		8,307
Total lease expense	$	106,012	$	99,183	$	93,828


	Twelve Months Ended December 31,
Other Lease Information	2023		2022		2021
Operating cash outflows from operating leases	$	97,880	$	91,702	$	85,244
Right-of-use lease assets obtained in exchange for new lease liabilities	66,473		161,886		52,931


	As of December 31,
Lease Term and Discount Rate	2023		2022
Weighted average remaining lease term (in years)	5.9		6.4
Weighted average discount rate	3.9	%	3.5	%

The maturity of lease liabilities as of December 31, 2023, were as follows (in thousands):


Maturity of Lease Liabilities	Operating Leases
2024	$	87,554
2025	81,556
2026	67,755
2027	51,612
2028	37,297
Thereafter	94,039
Total lease payments	419,813
Less: Interest	(47,799)
Present value of lease liabilities	$	372,014