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Leases | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
Operating Leases [Abstract] |
Leases of Lessee Disclosure [Text Block] | Leases As of January 1, 2019, the Company adopted ASU 2016-02, Leases, which required the Company to recognize a right-of-use asset and a corresponding lease liability on its balance sheet for most leases classified as operating leases under previous guidance. The Company adopted the standard using the modified retrospective approach as of January 1, 2019 and comparative financial statements have not been presented as allowed per the guidance. The Company elected several of the practical expedients permitted under the transition guidance within the new standard. The package of practical expedients elected allowed the Company to carryforward its conclusions over whether any existing contracts contain a lease, to carryforward historical lease classification, and to carryforward its evaluation of initial direct costs for any existing leases. In addition, the Company elected the practical expedients to combine lease and non-lease components and to keep leases with an initial term of 12 months or less, after the consideration of options, off the balance sheet. For these leases with an initial term of 12 months or less, after the consideration of options, the Company recognized the corresponding lease expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term. These practical expedients have been elected for all leases and subleases and will be applied on a go-forward basis. A contract is or contains a lease if the contract conveys the right to control the use of an identified asset for a period of time in exchange for consideration. An entity controls the use of the identified asset if both of the following are true: (1) the entity obtains the right to substantially all of the economic benefits from use of the identified asset and (2) the entity has the right to direct the use of the identified asset. For the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, the Company leased facilities and equipment under operating and finance leases. The Company leases some of its facilities under noncancellable operating leases that expire in various years through 2026. Certain leases may be renewed for periods varying from 1 to 10 years. The Company has entered into or assumed through acquisition several equipment operating leases for assets including tractors, straight trucks and trailers with original lease terms between 2 and 6 years. These leases expire in various years through 2025 and certain leases may be renewed for periods varying from 1 to 3 years. Primarily through acquisitions, the Company assumed equipment leases that met the criteria for classification as a finance lease. In conjunction with the acquisition of O.S.T. in July 2019, discussed further in Note 2, Acquisitions, Goodwill and Other Long-Lived Assets, the Company assumed finance leases with remaining lease terms between 2 and 7 years. These leases expire in various years through 2025 with no options to renew. All other finance leases are not considered material to the Company's financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017. The finance leased equipment is being amortized over the shorter of the lease term or useful life. This amortization is included in depreciation and amortization expense. The Company also subleases certain facility leases to independent third parties; however, as the Company is not relieved of its primary obligation under these leases, these assets are included in the right-of-use lease assets and corresponding lease liabilities as of December 31, 2019. Sublease rental income was $2,154, $1,724 and $1,923 in 2019, 2018 and 2017, respectively. In 2020, the Company expects to receive aggregate future minimum rental payments under noncancellable subleases of approximately $1,505. Noncancellable subleases expire between 2020 and 2024. For leases and subleases with terms greater than 12 months, the Company recorded the related right-of-use asset as the balance of the related lease liability, adjusted for any prepaid or accrued lease payments. Unamortized initial direct costs and lease incentives were not significant as of December 31, 2019. The lease liability was recorded at the present value of the lease payments over the term. Many of the Company's leases include rental escalation clauses, renewal options and/or termination options that were contemplated in the determination of lease payments when appropriate. As of December 31, 2019, the Company was not reasonably certain of exercising any renewal options. Further, as of December 31, 2019, it was reasonably certain that all termination options would not be exercised. As such, there were no adjustments made to its right-of-use lease assets or corresponding liabilities as a result. In addition, the Company does not have any leases with residual value guarantees or material restrictions or covenants as of December 31, 2019. The Company did not separate lease and nonlease components of contracts for purposes of determining the right-of use lease asset and corresponding liability. Additionally, variable lease and variable nonlease components were not contemplated in the calculation of the right-of-use asset and corresponding liability. For facility leases, variable lease costs include the costs of common area maintenance, taxes, and insurance for which the Company pays its lessors an estimate that is adjusted to actual expense on a quarterly or annual basis depending on the underlying contract terms. For equipment leases, variable lease costs may include additional fees for using equipment in excess of estimated annual mileage thresholds. Leasehold improvements were also excluded from the calculation of the right-of-use asset and corresponding liability. Leasehold improvements are recorded as an asset at cost and are amortized over the shorter of the estimated useful life or the initial term of the lease. In addition, the Company holds contracts with independent owner-operators. These contracts explicitly identify the tractors to be operated by the independent owner-operators and therefore, the Company concluded that these represent embedded leases. However, the contract compensation is variable based upon a rate per shipment and a rate per mile. As such, these amounts are excluded from the calculation of the right-of-use lease asset and corresponding liability and are instead disclosed as part of variable lease costs below. Costs incurred for independent owner-operators in accordance with these embedded leases are included in purchased transportation on the Company's Statements of Comprehensive Income, totaling $358,185, $316,147 and $317,452 for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, respectively. When available, the Company uses the rate implicit in the lease or sublease to discount lease payments to present value; however, most of our leases do not provide a readily determinable implicit rate. Therefore, the Company must estimate its incremental borrowing rate to discount the lease payments based on information available at lease commencement. The incremental borrowing rate is defined as the rate of interest that the Company would have to pay to borrow, on a collateralized basis and over a similar term, an amount equal to the lease payments in a similar economic environment. If using the Company’s incremental borrowing rate, management has elected to utilize a portfolio approach and applies the rates to a portfolio of leases with similar underlying assets and terms. Upon adoption of the new lease standard, discount rates used for existing leases were established at January 1, 2019. The following table summarizes the Company's lease costs for the year ended December 31, 2019 and related information:
| Year ended
| December 31, 2019
Lease cost |
Finance lease cost: |
Amortization of right-of-use assets | $ | 1,019 |
Interest on lease liabilities | 129 |
Operating lease cost | 59,012 |
Short-term lease cost | 12,056 |
Variable lease cost | 373,181 |
Sublease income | 2,154 |
Total lease cost | $ | 447,551 |
Other information |
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities: |
Operating cash flows from finance leases | $ | 129 |
Operating cash flows from operating leases | $ | 57,589 |
Financing cash flows from finance leases | $ | 946 |
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new finance lease liabilities | $ | 8,188 |
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities | $ | 202,278 |
Weighted-average remaining lease term - finance leases (in years) | 4.6 |
Weighted-average remaining lease term - operating leases (in years) | 3.8 |
Weighted-average discount rate - finance leases | 3.4 | %
Weighted-average discount rate - operating leases | 4.0 | %
The table below reconciles the undiscounted cash flows for each of the next five years and total of the remaining years to the lease liabilities recorded on the balance sheet as of December 31, 2019:
Payment Due Period | Operating Leases | Finance Leases
2020 | $ | 61,804 |  | $ | 1,611 |
2021 | 46,755 |  | 1,610 |
2022 | 31,918 |  | 1,342 |
2023 | 22,088 |  | 1,200 |
2024 | 14,775 |  | 798 |
Thereafter | 7,351 |  | 268 |
Total minimum lease payments | 184,691 |  | 6,829 |
Less: amount of lease payments representing interest | (32,551 | ) | (499 | )
Present value of future minimum lease payments | 152,140 |  | 6,330 |
Less: current portion of lease obligations | (50,615 | ) | (1,421 | )
Long-term lease obligations | $ | 101,525 |  | $ | 4,909 |
As of December 31, 2019, the Company has certain obligations to lease tractors, which will be delivered throughout 2020. These leases are expected to have terms of approximately 3 to 4 years and are not expected to materially impact the Company's right-of-use lease assets or liabilities as of December 31, 2019.

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