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Leases
6 Months Ended
Jun. 27, 2026
Leases [Abstract]  
Leases
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Leases
Landstar’s noncancelable leases are primarily comprised of finance leases for the acquisition of new trailing equipment. Each finance lease for the acquisition of trailing equipment is a five year lease with a $1 purchase option for the applicable equipment at lease expiration. Substantially all of Landstar’s operating lease
right-of-use
assets and operating lease liabilities represent leases for facilities maintained in support of the Company’s network of BCO Independent Contractors and office space used to conduct Landstar’s business.
 
These leases do not have significant rent escalation holidays, concessions, leasehold improvement incentives or other
build-out
clauses. Further, the leases do not contain contingent rent provisions. Landstar also rents certain trailing equipment to supplement the Company-owned trailer fleet under
“month-to-month”
lease terms, which are not required to be recorded on the balance sheet due to the less than twelve month lease term exemption. Sublease income is primarily comprised of weekly trailing equipment rentals to BCO Independent Contractors.
Most of Landstar’s operating leases include one or more options to renew. The exercise of lease renewal options is typically at Landstar’s sole discretion, and, as such, the majority of renewals to extend the lease terms are not included in the
right-of-use
assets and lease liabilities as they are not reasonably certain of exercise. Landstar regularly evaluates the renewal options, and when they are reasonably certain of exercise, Landstar includes the renewal period in the lease term.
As most of Landstar’s operating leases do not provide an implicit rate, Landstar utilized its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the lease commencement date in determining the present value of the lease payments. Landstar has a centrally managed treasury function; therefore, based on the applicable lease terms and the current economic environment, the Company applies a portfolio approach for determining the incremental borrowing rate.
The components of lease cost for finance leases and operating leases for the
twenty-six
weeks ended June 27, 2026 were (in thousands):
 
Finance leases:
  
Amortization of
right-of-use
assets
   $ 8,325  
Interest on lease liability
     1,896  
  
 
 
 
Total finance lease cost
     10,221  
Operating leases:
  
Lease cost
     3,191  
Variable lease cost
     —   
Sublease income
     (3,124
  
 
 
 
Total net operating lease cost
     67  
  
 
 
 
Total net lease cost
   $ 10,288  
  
 
 
 
A summary of the lease classification on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of June 27, 2026 is as follows (in thousands):
Assets:
 
Operating lease
right-of-use
assets
  
Other assets
   $ 482  
Finance lease assets
  
Operating property, less accumulated depreciation and amortization
     105,257  
     
 
 
 
Total lease assets
      $ 105,739  
     
 
 
 
Liabilities:
The following table reconciles the undiscounted cash flows for the finance and operating leases to the finance and operating lease liabilities recorded on the balance sheet at June 27, 2026 (in thousands):
 
    
Finance

Leases
    
Operating

Leases
 
2026 Remainder
   $ 15,803      $ 150  
2027
     22,718        263  
2028
     18,814        94  
2029
     14,345        —   
2030
     2,949        —   
Thereafter
     496        —   
  
 
 
    
 
 
 
Total future minimum lease payments
     75,125        507  
Less amount representing interest (1.6% to 6.4%)
     8,351        25  
  
 
 
    
 
 
 
Present value of minimum lease payments
   $ 66,774      $ 482  
  
 
 
    
 
 
 
Current maturities of long-term debt
     24,686     
Long-term debt, excluding current maturities
     42,088     
Other current liabilities
        286  
Deferred income taxes and other noncurrent liabilities
        196  
The weighted average remaining lease term and the weighted average discount rate for finance and operating leases as of June 27, 2026 were:
 
     Finance Leases     Operating Leases  
Weighted average remaining lease term (years)
     3.2       1.8  
Weighted average discount rate
     5.5     5.5