About Kenneth Eggen
A Proven Fleet Maintenance Expert
Decades of hands-on trucking and leadership.
Guiding operational success across fleets.
Trusted advisor for strategic growth.
Contact Ken for results-driven expertise.
My Journey
My career in trucking began in 1987 as a trailer mechanic with Overnite Transportation Company—the moment captured in the photograph above. That shop floor became the foundation for everything that followed.
Over the next 35+ years, I built my career from the ground up, progressing from hands-on maintenance into fleet and maintenance leadership and ultimately executive management. Along the way, I led maintenance operations, managed fleets, directed safety programs, developed teams, improved financial performance, and assumed executive responsibility for complex transportation organizations—including full accountability for a $248 million P&L.
My career has included leadership roles with respected transportation companies including Overnite Transportation, J.B. Hunt Transport, Roadrunner Transportation Systems, Jones Logistics and Southwestern Motor Transport. Those experiences gave me a perspective that extends well beyond the maintenance shop. I understand how maintenance decisions affect equipment availability, driver productivity, safety, customer service, capital requirements, and ultimately the profitability of the business.
Today, I bring that combination of hands-on maintenance experience and executive perspective to KME Services. I work with owners, presidents, and fleet leaders to strengthen maintenance operations, control costs, improve reliability, develop maintenance teams, and establish the accountability and performance disciplines required to operate a high-performing fleet.
I started in the shop. I eventually led from the executive office. Today, I bring both perspectives to every KME engagement.
OUR PURPOSE
1. FIND IT → 2. WATCH IT → 3. FIX IT
Turn disconnected maintenance, equipment, fuel, operating, and financial data into decisions that reduce cost, improve availability, and protect capital.
FROM THE SHOP FLOOR TO EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
KME Services brings more than 35 years of trucking and fleet maintenance experience—from hands-on work in the shop to leadership in the executive suite. This combination of practical maintenance knowledge and executive-level business experience provides a perspective few maintenance consultants can offer.
Every KME engagement is grounded in firsthand experience leading maintenance operations, managing fleet assets, controlling costs, developing teams, and making the difficult operational and financial decisions required to keep equipment productive and fleets performing.
EXPERIENCE INCLUDES
- 35+ years in the trucking industry
- Career foundation in hands-on truck and trailer maintenance
- Senior leadership responsibility for fleet maintenance and asset management
- Executive leadership with responsibility for a $248 million P&L
- Experience across maintenance, operations, safety, finance, procurement, and asset management
- Leadership experience with private, public, and family-owned transportation companies
- Advisor to trucking company owners, presidents, and senior executives
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE & RECOGNITION
Ken Eggen has contributed his experience and perspective to leading trucking and transportation industry publications, including:
Transport Topics
CCJ
Fleet Equipment
Fleet Maintenance
Heavy Duty Trucking
Ken has served as Study Group Chair for both the S.5 and S.3 study groups with the Technology and Maintenance Council (TMC)
Ken has led as well as presented in several technical sessions at TMC events.