OPERATING LEASES AND COMMITMENTS

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2018

NOTE F – OPERATING LEASES AND COMMITMENTS

While the Company maintains ownership of most of its larger service centers 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 $27.3 million, $31.7 million, and $26.7 million in 2018, 2017, and 2016, respectively.

The future minimum rental commitments, net of minimum rentals to be received under noncancelable subleases, as of December 31, 2018 for all noncancelable operating leases were as follows:


					Equipment
			Land and		and
	Total		Structures(1)		Other
		(in thousands)
2019	$	19,130	$	18,067	$	1,063
2020		14,620		13,676		944
2021		10,972		10,716		256
2022		7,125		7,125		—
2023		4,477		4,477		—
Thereafter		5,850		5,850		—
	$	62,174	$	59,911	$	2,263

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Excludes future minimum payments for leases which were executed but had not yet commenced as of December 31, 2018 of approximately $21.0 million which will be paid over 10 years.