New Chairman Wants TMC to Be 'Council for Everybody'

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(Michael James - TT)
Tom Newby, incoming chairman of ATA's Technology and Maintenance Council.The Technology and Maintenance Council, in an effort to become more diversified, extended a membership invitation to managers of specialized and vocational truck fleets in October. Now, incoming chairman Tom Newby wants to tap TMC’s growing diversity to expand the range of the recommended practices, the development of which may be the most important work the council does.

“We are the council for everybody who operates something that has a wheel end on it, a body on it, a light, a connector, an engine,” said Newby, who has been in the trucking business for 28 years.

Newby is director of field maintenance for Old Dominion Freight Line, Thomasville, N.C., a coast-to-coast less-than-truckload operation with 118 terminals, 18 shops, 7,000 employees and almost 15,000 pieces of equipment. He is set to accept the TMC gavel from outgoing chairman Jim Salas of Ryder System at this week’s TMC national meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

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