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Related Party | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2018
Related Party [Abstract] |
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, which began in November 2013, purchase options and options to renew. We have sold trailers to and have purchased parts and services from the commercial tractor dealership noted above. 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, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively. The related payments (receipts) with related parties for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 (in thousands) were as follows:
| Three months ended September 30,
| 2018 |  | 2017
Payments for parts and services | $ | 65 |  |  | $ | 172 |
Terminal lease payments | 251 |  |  | 421 |
| $ | 316 |  |  | $ | 593 |
| Nine months ended September 30,
| 2018 |  | 2017
Receipts for trailer sales | $ | — |  |  | $ | (12 | )
Payments for parts and services | 346 |  |  | 409 |
Terminal lease payments | 712 |  |  | 1,227 |
| $ | 1,058 |  |  | $ | 1,624 |

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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://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 850 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2122745 + Details
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