The next dialogue and evaluation of our monetary situation and outcomes of operations needs to be learn along with the chosen consolidated monetary knowledge and our consolidated condensed monetary statements and the associated notes showing elsewhere on this report. This dialogue and evaluation accommodates forward-looking statements that contain dangers, uncertainties and assumptions. Our precise outcomes could differ materially from these anticipated in these forward-looking statements on account of many elements, together with however not restricted to these included in our Kind 10-Ok, Half I, Merchandise 1A for the 12 months endedDecember 31, 2022 . We don't assume, and particularly disclaim, any obligation to replace any forward-looking assertion contained on this report. Overview We have now strategically transitioned from a refrigerated long-haul provider to a multifaceted enterprise providing a community of refrigerated and dry truck-based transportation capabilities throughout our 5 distinct enterprise platforms - Truckload, Devoted, Intermodal, Brokerage and MRTN deMexico . Our Truckload section offers a mix of regional short-haul and medium-to-long-haul full-load transportation providers. We transport meals and different client packaged items that require a temperature-controlled or insulated atmosphere, together with dry freight, throughoutthe US and into and out ofMexico andCanada . Our agreements with prospects are sometimes for one 12 months. Our Devoted section offers personalized transportation options tailor-made to meet every particular person buyer's necessities, using temperature-controlled trailers, dry vans and different specialised gear insidethe US . Our agreements with prospects vary from three to 5 years and are topic to annual fee opinions. Usually, we're paid by the mile for our Truckload and Devoted providers. We additionally derive Truckload and Devoted income from gas surcharges, loading and unloading actions, gear detention and different accessorial providers. The predominant elements that have an effect on our Truckload and Devoted income are the speed per mile we obtain from our prospects, the proportion of miles for which we're compensated, the variety of miles we generate with our gear and adjustments in gas costs. We monitor our income manufacturing primarily via common Truckload and Devoted income, web of gas surcharges, per tractor per week. We additionally analyze our common Truckload and Devoted income, web of gas surcharges, per whole mile, non-revenue miles share, the miles per tractor we generate, our gas surcharge income, our accessorial income and our different sources of working income. Our Intermodal section transports our prospects' freight insidethe United States using our refrigerated containers and our temperature-controlled trailers, every on railroad flatcars for parts of journeys, with the stability of the journeys utilizing our tractors or, to a lesser extent, contracted carriers. The predominant elements that have an effect on our Intermodal income are the speed per mile and different costs we obtain from our prospects. Our Brokerage section develops contractual relationships with and arranges for third-party carriers to move freight for our prospects in temperature-controlled trailers and dry vans insidethe US and into and out ofMexico viaMarten Transport Logistics, LLC , which was established in 2007 and operates pursuant to brokerage authority granted by the DOT. We retain the billing, assortment and buyer administration duties. The predominant elements that have an effect on our Brokerage income are the speed per mile and different costs that we obtain from our prospects.
Working outcomes of our MRTN of
Along with the elements mentioned above, our working income can also be affected by, amongst different issues,the US economic system, stock ranges, the extent of truck and rail capability within the transportation market, a contracting driver market, extreme climate situations and particular buyer demand. 10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our working income elevated$10.7 million , or 3.7%, within the first three months of 2023 from the primary three months of 2022. Our working income, web of gas surcharges, elevated$9.6 million , or 3.9%, in contrast with the primary three months of 2022. Truckload section income, web of gas surcharges, elevated 7.5% from the primary three months of 2022, primarily as a consequence of a rise in our fleet measurement, partially offset by a lower in our common income per tractor. Devoted section income, web of gas surcharges, elevated 10.7% from the primary three months of 2022, primarily as a consequence of will increase in every of our fleet measurement and common income per tractor. Intermodal section income, web of gas surcharges, decreased 8.6% from the primary three months of 2022, primarily as a consequence of a lower in our variety of hundreds, partially offset by a rise in our income per load. Brokerage section income decreased 8.1% from the primary three months of 2022, primarily as a consequence of a lower in our income per load, partially offset by a rise in our variety of hundreds. Gas surcharge income elevated to$43.1 million within the first three months of 2023 from$42.0 million within the first three months of 2022. Our profitability is impacted by the variable prices of transporting freight for our prospects, mounted prices, and bills containing each mounted and variable elements. The variable prices embody gas expense, driver-related bills, resembling wages, advantages, coaching, and recruitment, and unbiased contractor prices, that are recorded below bought transportation. Bills which have each mounted and variable elements embody upkeep and tire expense and our value of insurance coverage and claims. These bills typically differ with the miles we journey, but in addition have a controllable part primarily based on security, fleet age, effectivity and different elements. Our predominant mounted prices relate to the acquisition and subsequent depreciation of long-term belongings, resembling income gear and working terminals. We count on our annual value of tractor and trailer possession will enhance in future intervals on account of greater costs of recent gear, together with any will increase in fleet measurement. Though sure elements affecting our bills are past our management, we monitor them carefully and try to anticipate adjustments in these elements in managing our enterprise. For instance, gas costs have considerably fluctuated over the previous a number of years. We handle our publicity to adjustments in gas costs primarily via gas surcharge packages with our prospects, in addition to via quantity gas buying preparations with nationwide gas facilities and bulk purchases of gas at our terminals. To assist additional cut back gas expense, now we have put in and tightly handle the usage of auxiliary energy items in our tractors to offer local weather management and electrical energy for our drivers with out idling the tractor engine, and still have improved the gas utilization within the temperature-control items on our trailers. For our Intermodal and Brokerage segments, our profitability is impacted by the share of income which is payable to the suppliers of the transportation providers we organize. This expense is included inside bought transportation in our consolidated condensed statements of operations. Our working earnings declined 19.1% to$29.0 million within the first three months of 2023 from$35.9 million within the first three months of 2022. Our working bills as a share of working income, or "working ratio," was 90.3% within the first three months of 2023 and 87.5% within the first three months of 2022. Working bills as a share of working income, with each quantities web of gas surcharges, elevated to 88.6% within the first three months of 2023 from 85.4% within the first three months of 2022. Our web earnings declined 18.3% to$22.5 million , or$0.28 per diluted share, within the first three months of 2023 from$27.5 million , or$0.33 per diluted share, within the first three months of 2022. Our enterprise requires substantial, ongoing capital investments, notably for new tractors and trailers. AtMarch 31, 2023 , we had$96.3 million of money and money equivalents,$721.5 million in stockholders' fairness and no long-term debt excellent. Within the first three months of 2023, web money flows offered by working actions of$49.2 million had been primarily used to buy new income gear, web of proceeds from inclinations, within the quantity of$26.1 million , to pay money dividends of$4.9 million , and to assemble and improve regional working services within the quantity of$2.1 million , leading to a$15.7 million enhance in money and money equivalents. We estimate that capital expenditures, web of proceeds from inclinations, will likely be roughly$197 million for the rest of 2023. Quarterly money dividends of$0.06 per share of frequent inventory had been paid within the first three months of 2023 which totaled$4.9 million . We imagine our sources of liquidity are satisfactory to satisfy our present and anticipated wants for a minimum of the following twelve months. Primarily based upon anticipated money flows, present money and money equivalents balances, present borrowing availability and different sources of financing we count on to be accessible to us, we don't anticipate any vital liquidity constraints within the foreseeable future. We proceed to speculate appreciable time and capital sources to actively implement and promote long-term environmentally sustainable options that drive reductions in our gas and electrical energy consumption and reduce our carbon footprint. These initiatives embody (i) lowering idle time for our tractors by putting in and tightly managing the usage of auxiliary energy items, that are powered by photo voltaic panels and supply local weather management and electrical energy for our drivers with out idling the tractor engine, (ii) enhancing the power effectivity of our newer, extra aerodynamic and well-maintained tractor and trailer fleets by optimizing the gear's specs, weight and tractor pace, equipping our tractors with computerized transmissions, changing the refrigeration items in our refrigerated trailers to the brand new, more-efficient CARB refrigeration items together with rising the insulation within the trailer partitions and putting in trailer skirts, and utilizing ultra-fuel environment friendly and wide-based tires, and (iii) upgrading all of our services to indoor and outside LED lighting together with changing all of our services to solar energy. Moreover, we're an lively participant within theUnited States Environmental Safety Company , orEPA ,SmartWay Transport Partnership , wherein freight shippers, carriers, logistics corporations and different voluntary stakeholders companion with theEPA to measure, benchmark and enhance logistics operations to scale back their environmental footprint. 11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Administration's Dialogue and Evaluation of Monetary Situation and Outcomes of Operations contains discussions of working income, web of gas surcharge income; Truckload, Devoted and Intermodal income, web of gas surcharge income; working bills as a share of working income, every web of gas surcharge income; and web gas expense (gas and gas taxes web of gas surcharge income and surcharges handed via to unbiased contractors, outdoors drayage carriers and railroads). We offer these further disclosures as a result of administration believes these measures present a extra constant foundation for evaluating outcomes of operations from interval to interval. These monetary measures on this report haven't been decided in accordance withU.S. typically accepted accounting ideas (GAAP). Pursuant to Merchandise 10(e) of Regulation S-Ok, now we have included the quantities essential to reconcile these non-GAAP monetary measures to essentially the most instantly comparable GAAP monetary measures of working income, working bills divided by working income, and gas and gas taxes. Outcomes of Operations
The next desk units forth for the intervals indicated sure working statistics concerning our revenues and operations:
Three Months
Ended March 31,
2023 2022
Truckload Section:
Income (in hundreds) $ 120,626 $ 112,790
Common income, web of gas surcharges, per tractor
per week(1) $ 4,571 $ 4,977
Common tractors(1) 1,741 1,487
Common miles per journey 510 520
Whole miles (in hundreds) 38,237 35,372
Devoted Section:
Income (in hundreds) $ 106,449 $ 96,760
Common income, web of gas surcharges, per tractor
per week(1) $ 3,960 $ 3,851
Common tractors(1) 1,705 1,584
Common miles per journey 333 341
Whole miles (in hundreds) 34,076 32,753
Intermodal Section:
Income (in hundreds) $ 28,589 $ 31,642
Hundreds 7,277 8,294
Common tractors 180 162
Brokerage Section:
Income (in hundreds) $ 42,359 $ 46,089
Hundreds 20,688 19,684
(1) Contains tractors pushed by each salaried and self-employed drivers
contractors. Impartial contractors provided 95 and 87 tractors in March
31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
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Comparability of the three months ended
The next desk units forth for the intervals indicated our working income,
working earnings and working ratio by section, together with the change for every
part:
Greenback Proportion
Change Change
Three Months Three Months Three Months
Ended Ended Ended
March 31, March 31, March 31,
({Dollars} in hundreds) 2023 2022 2023 vs. 2022 2023 vs. 2022
Working income:
Truckload income, web of gas surcharge
income $ 102,320 $ 95,170 $ 7,150 7.5 %
Truckload gas surcharge income 18,306 17,620 686 3.9
Whole Truckload income 120,626 112,790 7,836 6.9
Devoted income, web of gas surcharge
income 86,831 78,421 8,410 10.7
Devoted gas surcharge income 19,618 18,339 1,279 7.0
Whole Devoted income 106,449 96,760 9,689 10.0
Intermodal income, web of gas
surcharge income 23,401 25,605 (2,204 ) (8.6 )
Intermodal gas surcharge income 5,188 6,037 (849 ) (14.1 )
Whole Intermodal income 28,589 31,642 (3,053 ) (9.6 )
Brokerage income 42,359 46,089 (3,730 ) (8.1 )
Whole working income $ 298,023 $ 287,281 $ 10,742 3.7 %
Working earnings:
Truckload $ 10,041 $ 15,571 $ (5,530 ) (35.5 )%
Devoted 13,684 10,645 3,039 28.5
Intermodal 787 5,036 (4,249 ) (84.4 )
Brokerage 4,498 4,606 (108 ) (2.3 )
Whole working earnings $ 29,010 $ 35,858 $ (6,848 ) (19.1 )%
Working ratio:
Truckload 91.7 % 86.2 %
Devoted 87.1 89.0
Intermodal 97.2 84.1
Brokerage 89.4 90.0
Consolidated working ratio 90.3 % 87.5 %
Working ratio, web of gas surcharges:
Truckload 90.2 % 83.6 %
Devoted 84.2 86.4
Intermodal 96.6 80.3
Brokerage 89.4 90.0
Consolidated working ratio, web of
gas surcharges 88.6 % 85.4 %
Our working income elevated $10.7 million , or 3.7%, to $298.0 million within the
2023 interval from $287.3 million within the 2022 interval. Our working income, web
of gas surcharges, elevated $9.6 million , or 3.9%, to $254.9 million within the
2023 interval from $245.3 million within the 2022 interval. This enhance within the 2023
interval was as a consequence of an $8.4 million enhance in Devoted income, web of gas
surcharges, and a $7.2 million enhance in Truckload income, web of gas
surcharges, partially offset by a $2.2 million lower in Intermodal income,
web of gas surcharges, and a $3.7 million lower in Brokerage income. Gas
surcharge income elevated to $43.1 million within the 2023 interval from $42.0
million within the 2022 interval.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Along with the elements mentioned beneath, our profitability throughout every section within the 2023 interval was impacted by widespread extreme winter climate and a freight market which has significantly softened from the exceptionally tight situations throughout the 2022 interval. Truckload section income elevated$7.8 million , or 6.9%, to$120.6 million in the 2023 interval from$112.8 million within the 2022 interval. Truckload section income, web of gas surcharges, elevated$7.2 million , or 7.5%, to$102.3 million within the 2023 interval from$95.2 million within the 2022 interval primarily due to a rise in our fleet measurement, partially offset by a lower in our common income per tractor. The working ratio elevated to 91.7% within the 2023 interval from 86.2% within the 2022 interval. Impacting the 2023 interval working ratio had been greater firm driver compensation, depreciation, upkeep and web gas prices as a share of income. Devoted section income elevated$9.7 million , or 10.0%, to$106.4 million in the 2023 interval from$96.8 million within the 2022 interval. Devoted section income, web of gas surcharges, elevated 10.7% primarily as a consequence of will increase in every of our fleet measurement and common income per tractor. The working ratio in the 2023 interval improved to 87.1% from 89.0% within the 2022 interval. The 2023 interval was positively impacted by the rise in our common income per tractor and decrease web gas and driver recruiting and retention prices, partially offset by greater upkeep and insurance coverage and claims prices. Intermodal section income decreased$3.1 million , or 9.6%, to$28.6 million in the 2023 interval from$31.6 million within the 2022 interval. Intermodal section income, web of gas surcharges, decreased 8.6% from the 2022 interval primarily as a consequence of a lower in our variety of hundreds, partially offset by a rise in our income per load. The working ratio within the 2023 interval elevated to 97.2% from 84.1% within the 2022 interval. Impacting the 2023 interval working ratio had been greater web gas, firm driver compensation, bought transportation, chassis rental and depreciation prices as a share of our income. Brokerage section income decreased$3.7 million , or 8.1%, to$42.4 million in the 2023 interval from$46.1 million within the 2022 interval primarily as a consequence of a lower in our income per load, partially offset by a rise in our quantity of hundreds. The advance within the working ratio within the 2023 interval to 89.4% from 90.0% was primarily as a consequence of a lower in bought transportation quantities payable to carriers as a share of our income. The next desk units forth for the intervals indicated the greenback and share enhance or lower of the gadgets in our unaudited consolidated condensed statements of operations, and people gadgets as a share of working income: Greenback Proportion Proportion of Change Change Working Income Three Months Three Months Three Months Ended Ended Ended March 31, March 31, March 31, ({Dollars} in hundreds) 2023 vs. 2022 2023 vs. 2022 2023 2022 Working income$ 10,742 3.7 % 100.0 % 100.0 % Working bills (earnings): Salaries, wages and advantages 9,167 10.3 33.1 31.1 Bought transportation (3,207 ) (5.6 ) 18.2 19.9 Gas and gas taxes 2,428 5.5 15.7 15.4 Provides and upkeep 3,674 29.8 5.4 4.3 Depreciation 3,387 13.0 9.9 9.1 Working taxes and licenses 128 4.8 0.9 0.9 Insurance coverage and claims 2,366 18.6 5.1 4.4 Communications and utilities 266 11.7 0.8 0.8 Achieve on disposition of income gear (706 ) (15.6 ) (1.8 ) (1.6 ) Different 87 1.0 3.0 3.1 Whole working bills 17,590 7.0 90.3 87.5 Working earnings (6,848 ) (19.1 ) 9.7 12.5 Different (837 ) (11,957.1 ) (0.3 ) - Earnings earlier than earnings taxes (6,011 ) (16.8 ) 10.0 12.5 Earnings taxes expense (980 ) (11.8 ) 2.5 2.9 Web earnings$ (5,031 ) (18.3 )% 7.6 % 9.6 % 14
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Salaries, wages and advantages encompass compensation for our workers, together with each driver and non-driver workers, workers' medical health insurance, 401(okay) plan contributions and different fringe advantages. These bills differ relying upon the scale of our Truckload, Devoted and Intermodal tractor fleets, the ratio of firm drivers to unbiased contractors, our effectivity, our expertise with workers' medical health insurance claims, adjustments in well being care premiums and different elements. Salaries, wages and advantages expense elevated$9.2 million , or 10.3%, within the 2023 interval from the 2022 interval. This enhance resulted primarily from further firm driver compensation expense of$7.4 million and a$2.4 million enhance in non-driver compensation expense, partially offset by a$2.3 million lower in bonus compensation expense for our non-driver workers. Bought transportation consists of quantities payable to railroads and carriers for transportation providers we organize in reference to Brokerage and Intermodal operations and to unbiased contractor suppliers of income gear. This class will differ relying upon the quantity and charges, together with gas surcharges, we pay to third-party railroad and motor carriers, the ratio of firm drivers versus unbiased contractors and the quantity of gas surcharges handed via to unbiased contractors. Bought transportation expense decreased$3.2 million in whole, or 5.6%, within the 2023 interval from the 2022 interval. Quantities payable to carriers for transportation providers we organized in our Brokerage section decreased$4.0 million to$34.9 million within the 2023 interval from$38.8 million within the 2022 interval, primarily as a consequence of a lower in the price per load. Quantities payable to railroads and drayage carriers for transportation providers inside our Intermodal section had been$15.3 million within the 2023 interval and$15.2 million within the 2022 interval. The portion of bought transportation expense associated to unbiased contractors inside our Truckload and Devoted segments, together with gas surcharges, elevated$655,000 within the 2023 interval. We count on our bought transportation expense to extend as we develop our Intermodal and Brokerage segments. Gas and gas taxes elevated by$2.4 million , or 5.5%, within the 2023 interval from the 2022 interval. Web gas expense (gas and gas taxes web of gas surcharge income and surcharges handed via to unbiased contractors, outdoors drayage carriers and railroads) elevated$1.9 million , or 27.5%, to$8.8 million within the 2023 interval from$6.9 million within the 2022 interval. Gas surcharges handed via to unbiased contractors, outdoors drayage carriers and railroads elevated to$5.1 million from$4.5 million within the 2022 interval.The United States Division of Power , orDOE , nationwide common value of gas elevated to$4.41 per gallon from$4.24 per gallon within the 2022 interval. Our web gas expense elevated to 4.1% of Truckload, Devoted and Intermodal section income, web of gas surcharges, within the 2023 interval from 3.5% within the 2022 interval. We have now labored diligently to manage gas utilization and prices by enhancing our quantity buying preparations and optimizing our drivers' gas purchases with nationwide gas facilities, specializing in shorter lengths of haul, putting in and tightly managing the usage of auxiliary energy items in our tractors to reduce engine idling and enhancing gas utilization within the temperature-control items on our trailers. Auxiliary energy items, which now we have put in in our company-owned tractors, present local weather management and electrical energy for our drivers with out idling the tractor engine. Provides and upkeep encompass repairs, upkeep, tires, components, oil and engine fluids, together with load-specific bills together with loading/unloading, tolls, pallets and trailer hostling. Our provides and upkeep expense elevated$3.7 million , or 29.8%, from the 2022 interval, primarily as a consequence of greater outdoors restore, components, tires and loading/unloading prices. Depreciation pertains to owned tractors, trailers, containers, auxiliary energy items, communication items, terminal services and different belongings. The$3.4 million , or 13.0%, enhance in depreciation within the 2023 interval was primarily due to a rise within the measurement of our tractor and trailer fleets together with greater costs of recent gear. We count on our annual value of tractor and trailer possession will enhance in future intervals on account of continued greater costs of recent gear, which is able to lead to larger depreciation over the helpful life. Insurance coverage and claims encompass the prices of insurance coverage premiums and accruals we make for claims inside our self-insured retention quantities, primarily for private damage, property injury, bodily injury to our gear, cargo claims and employees' compensation claims. These bills will differ based totally upon the frequency and severity of our accident expertise, our self-insured retention ranges and the marketplace for insurance coverage. The$2.4 million , or 18.6%, enhance in insurance coverage and claims within the 2023 interval was primarily as a consequence of will increase in the price of bodily injury claims associated to our income gear and in our self-insured auto legal responsibility declare prices. Our vital self-insured retention exposes us to the potential for vital fluctuations in claims expense between intervals which might materially impression our monetary outcomes relying on the frequency, severity and timing of claims. 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Achieve on disposition of income gear was$5.2 million within the 2023 interval, up from$4.5 million within the 2022 interval primarily as a consequence of a rise within the quantity of items offered, partially offset by a lower within the common acquire for our tractor and trailer gross sales. Future beneficial properties or losses on inclinations of income gear will likely be impacted by the marketplace for used income gear, which is past our management. Our working earnings declined 19.1% to$29.0 million within the 2023 interval from$35.9 million within the 2022 interval on account of the foregoing elements. Our working bills as a share of working income, or "working ratio," was 90.3% within the 2023 interval and 87.5% within the 2022 interval. The working ratio for our Truckload section was 91.7% within the 2023 interval and 86.2% within the 2022 interval, for our Devoted section was 87.1% within the 2023 interval and 89.0% within the 2022 interval, for our Intermodal section was 97.2% within the 2023 interval and 84.1% within the 2022 interval, and for our Brokerage section was 89.4% within the 2023 interval and 90.0% within the 2022 interval. Working bills as a share of working income, with each quantities web of gas surcharges, was 88.6% within the 2023 interval and 85.4% within the 2022 interval.
Different non-operating earnings elevated to
Our efficient tax fee elevated to 24.6% for the 2023 interval, in comparison with 23.2% for the 2022 interval, primarily because of the enhance in per diems and different non-deductible bills.
On account of the elements described above, web earnings declined 18.3% to$22.5 million , or$0.28 per diluted share, within the 2023 interval from$27.5 million , or$0.33 per diluted share, within the 2022 interval.
Money and capital sources
Our enterprise requires substantial, ongoing capital investments, notably for
new tractors and trailers. Our main sources of liquidity are funds offered
by operations and our revolving credit score facility. A portion of our tractor fleet
is offered by unbiased contractors who personal and function their very own gear.
We have now no capital expenditure necessities referring to these drivers who personal
their tractors or receive financing via third events.
The desk beneath displays our web money flows offered by working actions,
web money flows used for/offered by investing actions and web money flows used
for financing actions for the intervals indicated.
Three Months
Ended March 31,
(In hundreds) 2023 2022
Web money flows offered by working actions $ 49,232 $ 39,940
Web money flows (used for)/offered by investing actions (28,280 )
409
Web money flows (used for) financing actions (5,264 ) (30,817 ) InAugust 2019 , our Board of Administrators accepted and we introduced a rise from present availability in our present share repurchase program offering for the repurchase of as much as$34.0 million , or roughly 1.8 million shares, of our frequent inventory, which was elevated by our Board of Administrators to 2.7 million shares inAugust 2020 to replicate the three-for-two inventory break up effected within the type of a inventory dividend onAugust 13, 2020 . OnCould 3, 2022 , our Board of Administrators accepted and we introduced a further enhance from present availability in our present share repurchase program offering for the repurchase of as much as$50.0 million , or roughly 3.1 million shares of our frequent inventory. The share repurchase program permits purchases on the open market or via personal transactions in accordance with Rule 10b-18 of the Trade Act. The timing and extent to which we repurchase shares is dependent upon market situations and different company concerns. The repurchase program doesn't have an expiration date. We repurchased and retired 1.3 million shares of frequent inventory for$25.0 million within the first quarter of 2022, and 963,000 shares of frequent inventory for$16.8 million within the second quarter of 2022. We didn't repurchase any shares within the third or fourth quarters of 2022 or within the first quarter of 2023. As ofMarch 31, 2023 , future repurchases of as much as$33.2 million , or roughly 2.2 million shares, had been accessible within the share repurchase program. 16 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Within the first three months of 2023, web money flows offered by working actions of$49.2 million had been primarily used to buy new income gear, web of proceeds from inclinations, within the quantity of$26.1 million , to pay money dividends of$4.9 million , and to assemble and improve regional working services within the quantity of$2.1 million , leading to a$15.7 million enhance in money and money equivalents. Within the first three months of 2022, web money flows offered by working actions of$39.9 million had been primarily used to repurchase and retire 1.3 million shares of our frequent inventory for$25.0 million , to pay money dividends of$5.0 million , and to assemble and improve regional working services within the quantity of$2.5 million , leading to a$9.5 million enhance in money and money equivalents. We estimate that capital expenditures, web of proceeds from inclinations, will be roughly$197 million for the rest of 2023. This quantity contains commitments to buy$154.9 million of recent income gear and$3.5 million in constructing building via the rest of 2023. Moreover, working lease obligations whole$691,000 via 2028. Quarterly money dividends of$0.06 per share of frequent inventory had been paid in every of the primary quarters of 2023 and 2022 which totaled$4.9 million and$5.0 million , respectively. We presently count on to proceed to pay quarterly money dividends sooner or later. The fee of money dividends sooner or later, and the quantity of any such dividends, will rely upon our monetary situation, outcomes of operations, money necessities, and sure company legislation necessities, in addition to different elements deemed related by our Board of Administrators. We imagine our sources of liquidity are satisfactory to satisfy our present and anticipated wants for a minimum of the following twelve months. Primarily based upon anticipated money flows, present money and money equivalents balances, present borrowing availability and different sources of financing we count on to be accessible to us, we don't anticipate any vital liquidity constraints in the foreseeable future. InAugust 2022 , we entered right into a credit score settlement that gives for an unsecured dedicated credit score facility with an mixture principal quantity of$30.0 million which matures inAugust 2027 . The credit score settlement amends, restates and continues in its entirety our earlier credit score settlement, as amended. AtMarch 31, 2023 , there was no excellent principal stability on the power. As of that date, we had excellent standby letters of credit score to ensure settlement of self-insurance claims of$16.1 million and remaining borrowing availability of$13.9 million . AtDecember 31, 2022 , there was additionally no excellent principal stability on the power. As of that date, we had excellent standby letters of credit score of$16.1 million on the power. This facility bears curiosity at a variable fee primarily based on the Time period SOFR Price plus relevant margins. The curiosity fee for the power that will apply to excellent principal balances was 8.0% atMarch 31, 2023 . Our credit score settlement efficient inAugust 2022 prohibits us from paying, in any fiscal 12 months, inventory redemptions and dividends in extra of$150 million . Our earlier credit score settlement prohibited us from making such funds in extra of 25% of our web earnings from the prior fiscal 12 months. A waiver permitting inventory redemptions and dividends in extra of the 25% limitation in whole quantities of up to$80 million in 2022 was obtained from the lender inMarch 2022 . The present and former credit score agreements additionally include restrictive covenants which, amongst different issues, require us to take care of compliance with money stream leverage and mounted cost protection ratios. We had been in compliance with all covenants atMarch 31, 2023 andDecember 31, 2022 . Aside from our obligations for income gear and constructing building purchases and working lease expenditures, together with our excellent standby letters of credit score to ensure settlement of self-insurance claims, that are every talked about above, we didn't have any materials off-balance sheet preparations atMarch 31, 2023 . Seasonality Our tractor productiveness typically decreases throughout the winter season as a result of inclement climate impedes operations and a few shippers cut back their shipments. On the identical time, working bills typically enhance, with harsh climate creating greater accident frequency, elevated claims, decrease gas effectivity and extra gear repairs. Essential Accounting Estimates There have been no materials adjustments within the essential accounting estimates disclosed by us below Half II, Merchandise 7. Administration's Dialogue and Evaluation of Monetary Situation and Outcomes of Operations - Essential Accounting Estimates contained within the Annual Report on Kind 10-Ok for the 12 months endedDecember 31, 2022 . 17
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