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OPERATING LEASES AND COMMITMENTS | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2016
OPERATING LEASES AND COMMITMENTS |
OPERATING LEASES AND COMMITMENTS | NOTE F – OPERATING LEASES AND COMMITMENTS While the Company maintains ownership of most of its larger terminals and distribution centers, certain facilities and equipment are leased. Certain of the leases are renewable for additional periods with similar rent payments. Rental expense for operating leases, including rentals with initial terms of less than one year, totaled $26.7 million, $25.0 million, and $30.2 million in 2016, 2015, and 2014, respectively. The future minimum rental commitments, net of minimum rental to be received under noncancelable subleases, as of December 31, 2016 for all noncancelable operating leases were as follows:
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Equipment |
|  |  |  |  | Land and |  | and |
|  | Total |  | Structures |  | Other |
|  |  | (in thousands) |
2017 |  | $ | 17,961 |  | $ | 15,917 |  | $ | 2,044 |
2018 |  |  | 14,519 |  |  | 12,865 |  |  | 1,654 |
2019 |  |  | 11,965 |  |  | 10,892 |  |  | 1,073 |
2020 |  |  | 9,648 |  |  | 8,688 |  |  | 960 |
2021 |  |  | 6,394 |  |  | 6,078 |  |  | 316 |
Thereafter |  |  | 5,670 |  |  | 5,670 |  |  | — |
|  | $ | 66,157 |  | $ | 60,110 |  | $ | 6,047 |
As of December 31, 2016, the Company had an $18.2 million commitment for the construction of a call center and office building to facilitate the continuing growth in its ArcBest segment, which is expected to be completed in late second quarter 2017.

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