TMC: New Chairman Calls Standardized Procedures Key to Performance

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img src="/sites/default/files/images/articles/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>Tom Newby believes that a far-flung maintenance operation can run at peak performance only if procedures are standardized as much as possible and employees act on ways to improve the workplace.

Newby oversees 18 shops with 230 technicians and two dozen managers as director of field maintenance for Old Dominion Freight Line, Thomasville, N.C., a coast-to-coast less-than-truckload operation.

On top of that, he takes over as chairman of the Technology and Maintenance Council of American Trucking Associations at this week’s TMC conference in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

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