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Related Party | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2016
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Related Party | Related Party Transactions We lease terminal facilities for operations under operating leases from certain limited liability companies, whose members include one of our board members, and a commercial tractor dealership whose owners include one of our board members. The terminal facility leases have initial five year terms, purchase options and options to renew excluding the lease for Pacific, Washington location. The Pacific, Washington location contains lease renewal options and a right of first refusal on any sale of the property. We have purchased tractors from the commercial tractor dealership noted above. We also had operating leases for certain revenue equipment with the commercial tractor dealership and have purchased parts and services from the same commercial tractor dealership. We owed this commercial tractor dealership $0.1 million and $0.1 million, which were included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2016 and 2015, for parts and service delivered but not paid for prior to December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. We also provided certain administrative services to this commercial tractor dealership where we received payment for services through May 2014. Since that time, we have continued to perform certain administrative functions related to our ongoing transactions but we are not entitled to receive payments for those services. The related payments (receipts) with related parties for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015, and 2014 were as follows:
| December 31, 2016 |  | December 31, 2015 |  | December 31, 2014
| (in thousands)
Payments for tractor purchases | $ | 4,300 |  |  | $ | 58,599 |  |  | $ | 46,562 |
Receipts for tractor sales | — |  |  | (38,064 | ) |  | (15,564 | )
Receipts for trailer sales | (108 | ) |  | (28 | ) |  | (103 | )
Revenue equipment lease payments | 813 |  |  | 3,223 |  |  | 6,842 |
Payments for parts and services | 1,300 |  |  | 4,346 |  |  | 5,906 |
Terminal lease payments | 1,849 |  |  | 3,408 |  |  | 3,930 |
Terminal purchase option payments | — |  |  | 21,555 |  |  | 2,825 |
Administrative services receipts | — |  |  | — |  |  | (516 | )
| $ | 8,154 |  |  | $ | 53,039 |  |  | $ | 49,882 |

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