Note 10 - Leases

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Notes to Financial Statements

Leases of Lessee and Lessor Disclosure [Text Block]

10 – Leases

Lease of Vehicles as Lessor

The Company primarily leases commercial vehicles that it owns to customers over periods of one to ten years. The Company does not separate lease and nonlease components. Nonlease components typically consist of maintenance and licensing for the commercial vehicle. The variable nonlease components are generally based on mileage. Some leases contain an option for the lessee to purchase the commercial vehicle at the end of the lease term.

The Company’s policy is to depreciate its lease and rental fleet using a straight-line method over each customer’s contractual lease term. The lease unit is depreciated to a residual value that approximates fair value at the expiration of the lease term. This policy results in the Company realizing reasonable gross margins while the unit is in service and a corresponding gain or loss on sale when the unit is sold at the end of the lease term.

Sales-type leases are recognized by the Company as lease receivables. The lessee obtains control of the underlying asset and the Company recognizes sales revenue upon lease commencement. The receivable for sales-type leases as of September 30, 2022 was $6.1 million, compared to $5.4 million as of December 31, 2021, and is reflected in the line item Other assets on the Consolidated Balance Sheet.

Lease and rental income during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, and September 30, 2021, consisted of the following (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2022		2021		2022		2021
Minimum rental payments	$	73,797	$	54,267	$	205,070	$	157,919
Nonlease payments		11,891		8,422		32,491		24,393
Total	$	85,688	$	62,689	$	237,561	$	182,312