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Related Party (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
Related Party [Abstract] |
Schedule of Related Party Transactions [Table Text Block] | e related payments (receipts) with related parties for the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, and the period after the close of the Transaction, November 11, 2013 through December 31, 2013 were as follows:
| December 31, 2015 |  | December 31, 2014 |  | November 11, 2013 to December 31, 2013
| (in thousands)
Payments for tractor purchases | $ | 58,599 |  |  | $ | 46,562 |  |  | $ | 6,884 |
Receipts for tractor sales | (38,064 | ) |  | (15,564 | ) |  | (2,138 | )
Receipts for trailer sales | (28 | ) |  | (103 | ) |  | — |
Revenue equipment lease payments | 3,223 |  |  | 6,842 |  |  | 930 |
Payments for parts and services | 4,346 |  |  | 5,906 |  |  | 1,058 |
Terminal lease payments | 3,408 |  |  | 3,930 |  |  | 572 |
Terminal purchase option payments | 21,555 |  |  | 2,825 |  |  | — |
Administrative services receipts | — |  |  | (516 | ) |  | (98 | )
| $ | 53,039 |  |  | $ | 49,882 |  |  | $ | 7,208 |
There were no related party transactions prior to the close of the Transaction on November 11, 2013.

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of related party transactions. Examples of related party transactions include, but are not limited to, transactions between (a) a parent company and its subsidiary; (b) subsidiaries of a common parent; (c) and entity and its principal owners and (d) affiliates. + References No definition available. + Details
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