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Gerry Mead

Executive Director of Innovation, Phillips Industries

Gerry Mead joined Phillips Industries in 2017. With more than two decades of multi-faceted experiences in all sectors of the trucking industry, Mead previously served as senior vice president of equipment and maintenance of US Xpress, Inc., and positions at Yellow Freight, JB Hunt Transport Services Inc., Walmart Transportation LLC. and PAM Transport. Mead is a member of the American Trucking Associations Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC), Tennessee Trucking Association (TTA) and the United States Marine Corps Motor Transport Association (USMC MTA). He is an eight-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps.

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Sensorization of componentry has created complex individual equipment networks allowing for collaborative alerts and streams of data enabling machine learning to occur.
Diagnostic & Repair

“Smart” technologies will help improve maintenance

June 5, 2019
How the industry will move from a fix-as-fail to fix-as-prescribed approach with vehicle connectivity and telematics.