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Leases, User Charges and Commitments
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Commitments And Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Leases, User Charges and Commitments

NOTE 12. Leases, User Charges and Commitments

Minimum annual capital and operating lease payments, as of December 31, 2018, under non-cancelable leases, principally for chassis, other equipment and real estate, as well as other commitments are payable as follows (in thousands):

Future Payments Due:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leases and

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital

 

 

Other

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lease

 

 

Commitments

 

 

Total

 

2019

$

3,091

 

 

$

14,942

 

 

$

18,033

 

2020

 

3,099

 

 

 

11,879

 

 

 

14,978

 

2021

 

1,795

 

 

 

9,308

 

 

 

11,103

 

2022

 

-

 

 

 

8,350

 

 

 

8,350

 

2023

 

-

 

 

 

6,770

 

 

 

6,770

 

2024 and thereafter

 

-

 

 

 

9,831

 

 

 

9,831

 

 

$

7,985

 

 

$

61,080

 

 

$

69,065

 

Less: Imputed interest

 

(401

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net capital lease liability

$

7,584

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total rental expense included in general and administrative expense, which relates primarily to real estate, was approximately $10.6 million in 2018, $9.5 million in 2017 and $8.1 million in 2016. Many of the real estate leases contain renewal options and escalation clauses which require payments of additional rent to the extent of increases in the related operating costs. We straight-line rental expense in accordance with the FASB guidance in the Leases Topic of the Codification.

We incur rental expense for our leased containers, tractors and trailers that are included in transportation costs and totaled $10.7 million, $6.0 million, and $3.6 million for 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively.

We incur user charges for use of a fleet of rail owned chassis, chassis under capital lease and dedicated rail owned containers on the Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads which are included in transportation costs. Such charges were $80.4 million, $77.6 million and $73.7 million for 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively. We have the ability to return the majority of the containers and pay for the rail owned chassis only when we are using them under these agreements. As a result, no minimum commitments related to these rail owned chassis and containers have been included in the table above.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases, which requires lessees to recognize a right-of-use asset (“ROU”) and a lease obligation for all leases. We adopted the standard as of January 1, 2019, as required.

We anticipate the adoption of this standard will result in the recognition of approximately $29 million to $37 million of ROU assets and liabilities on our consolidated balance sheet.  The lease liabilities to be recognized will be measured based upon the present value of minimum future payments and the ROU assets to be recognized will be equal to lease liabilities, adjusted for prepaid and accrued rent balances which are recorded in the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2018.

Hub currently does not have any variable lease payments that depend on an index or a rate (such as the Consumer Price Index or a market interest rate). Additionally, some leases have options to extend or terminate, which Management will determine if exercised or not.  If any of the options are exercised, this will be reflected in the ROU asset and lease liability accordingly.  As of January 1, 2019, the ROU asset and lease liabilities do not reflect any options to extend or terminate any of the leases as management is not reasonably certain it will exercise any of these options.  Also, current leases do not contain any restrictions or covenants imposed by the leases or residual value guarantees.

Occasionally, Hub will sublease office space or parking spaces. The subleases do not relieve Hub of any of its primary obligations under the original agreement.  Currently, Hub has subleases with an expected annual income totaling $0.5 million.

Subsequent to January 1, 2019, Hub signed property lease contracts which have not commenced yet but that creates significant rights and obligations for Hub.  Based on the present value of the lease payments, the estimated ROU assets and lease liabilities related to this contract will total approximately $6.7 million.