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Recent Accounting Pronouncements | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2018
Recent Accounting Pronouncements [Abstract] |
Recent Accounting Pronouncements | Recent Accounting Pronouncements In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU No. 2017-04, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): "Simplifying the Accounting for Goodwill Impairment." Under the new standard, a goodwill impairment loss will be measured at the amount by which a reporting unit's carrying amount exceeds its fair value, not to exceed the carrying amount of goodwill, thus no longer requiring the two-step method. The guidance requires prospective adoption and will be effective for annual or interim goodwill impairment tests in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019. Early adoption of this guidance is permitted for interim or annual goodwill impairment tests performed on testing dates after January 1, 2017. We have adopted this guidance as of January 1, 2018 and do not expect any impact to the consolidated financial statements. In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases, which will require lessees to recognize a right-of-use asset with a corresponding lease liability on their balance sheet for most leases classified as operating leases under previous guidance. Lessors will be required to recognize a net lease investment for most leases. Additional qualitative and quantitative disclosures will also be required. The guidance will be effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018 and interim periods within those fiscal years with early adoption permitted. We plan to recognize a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the period of adoption as allowed per the guidance. Changes to processes and internal controls to meet the standard’s reporting and disclosure requirements have been identified and are being implemented. We continue to evaluate the expected impact of this guidance, but do not anticipate any material changes to operating results or liquidity as a result of the right-of-use assets and corresponding lease liabilities that will be recorded. In May 2014, the FASB issued guidance on revenue from contracts with customers that superseded most current revenue recognition guidance, including industry-specific guidance. The underlying principle is that an entity will recognize revenue to depict the transfer of goods or services to customers at an amount that the entity expects to be entitled to in exchange for those goods or services. The guidance provides a five-step analysis of transactions to determine when and how revenue is recognized. Other major provisions include capitalization of certain contract costs, consideration of time value of money in the transaction price, and allowing estimates of variable consideration to be recognized before contingencies are resolved in certain circumstances. The guidance also requires enhanced disclosures regarding the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from an entity’s contracts with customers. The guidance is effective for the interim and annual periods beginning on or after December 15, 2017. The guidance permits the use of either a full retrospective or modified retrospective adoption approach with a cumulative effect adjustment recorded in either scenario as necessary upon transition. As permitted by the guidance, we implemented the use of full retrospective presentation, which required the Company to restate each prior reporting period presented. While evaluating principal versus agent relationships under the new standard, we determined that we will transition the fuel surcharge revenue stream from an agent to principal relationship. This caused this revenue stream and associated costs to be recognized on a gross basis that have historically been recognized on a net basis. In addition, based on a review of our customer shipping arrangements, we have concluded that revenue recognition for our performance obligations should be over time. This is because the customer will simultaneously receive and consume the benefits of these services as the entity performs over the related service period. A performance obligation is performed over time if an entity determines that another entity would not need to substantially reperform the work completed to date if another entity were to fulfill the remaining performance obligation to the applicable customer. Applying this guidance to our shipping performance obligations, if we were to move a customer’s freight partially to its destination but were unable to complete the remaining obligation, a replacement vendor would only have to complete the transit as opposed to initiating at shipment origin. Therefore, we believe our customers simultaneously receive and consume the benefits we provide and as a result we will recognize the revenue for each shipment over the course of time based on percentage of days in transit. Our revenue from contracts with customers is disclosed within our four reportable segments: Expedited LTL, TLS, Intermodal and Pool. This is consistent with our disclosures in earnings releases and annual reports and with the information regularly reviewed by the chief operating decision maker for evaluating financial performance. The impact of implementing this guidance using the full retrospective approach on the prior period statements of operations are shown in the "As Adjusted" columns of the following tables:
|  | Three months ended September 30, 2017
(In thousands, except per share data) |  | As Previously Reported |  | Adjustments |  | As Adjusted
Revenue |  |  |  |  |  |
Expedited LTL |  | $ | 155,703 |  |  | $ | 9,696 |  |  | $ | 165,399 |
Truckload Premium Services |  | 45,941 |  |  | 5,520 |  |  | 51,461 |
Pool Distribution |  | 39,180 |  |  | 1,003 |  |  | 40,183 |
Intermodal |  | 42,292 |  |  | 1,869 |  |  | 44,161 |
Eliminations and other operations |  | (2,915 | ) |  | — |  |  | (2,915 | )
Consolidated revenue |  | 280,201 |  |  | 18,088 |  |  | 298,289 |
Operating Expenses |  | 253,303 |  |  | 17,810 |  |  | 271,113 |
Income from operations |  | 26,898 |  |  | 278 |  |  | 27,176 |
Income tax expenses |  | 8,453 |  |  | 104 |  |  | 8,557 |
Net Income |  | 18,155 |  |  | 173 |  |  | 18,328 |
Diluted earnings per share |  | $ | 0.60 |  |  | $ | 0.01 |  |  | $ | 0.61 |
|  | Nine months ended September 30, 2017
(In thousands, except per share data) |  | As Previously Reported |  | Adjustments |  | As Adjusted
Revenue |  |  |  |  |  |
Expedited LTL |  | $ | 448,571 |  |  | $ | 26,065 |  |  | $ | 474,636 |
Truckload Premium Services |  | 132,912 |  |  | 16,087 |  |  | 148,999 |
Pool Distribution |  | 113,838 |  |  | 2,903 |  |  | 116,741 |
Intermodal |  | 105,853 |  |  | 4,454 |  |  | 110,307 |
Eliminations and other operations |  | (6,474 | ) |  | — |  |  | (6,474 | )
Consolidated revenue |  | 794,700 |  |  | 49,509 |  |  | 844,209 |
Operating Expenses |  | 714,804 |  |  | 48,491 |  |  | 763,295 |
Income from operations |  | 79,896 |  |  | 1,018 |  |  | 80,914 |
Income tax expenses |  | 27,131 |  |  | 391 |  |  | 27,522 |
Net Income |  | 51,948 |  |  | 627 |  |  | 52,575 |
Diluted earnings per share |  | $ | 1.71 |  |  | $ | 0.02 |  |  | $ | 1.73 |

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