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Related Party | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
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Related Party | Related Party We lease certain 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 sold trailers to 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 the commercial tractor dealership $0.1 million and $0.1 million, included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets at September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively. The related payments (receipts) with related parties for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 (in thousands) were as follows:
| Three months ended September 30,
| 2017 |  | 2016
Payments for parts and services | $ | 172 |  |  | $ | 368 |
Terminal lease payments | 421 |  |  | 466 |
| $ | 593 |  |  | $ | 834 |
| Nine months ended September 30,
| 2017 |  | 2016
Payments for tractor purchases | $ | — |  |  | $ | 4,300 |
Receipts for trailer sales | (12 | ) |  | (108 | )
Revenue equipment lease payments | — |  |  | 813 |
Payments for parts and services | 409 |  |  | 1,151 |
Terminal lease payments | 1,227 |  |  | 1,397 |
| $ | 1,624 |  |  | $ | 7,553 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for related party transactions. Examples of related party transactions include 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 Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 850 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2122745 + Details
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