T. J. Reed

T.J. Reed is a truck and bus industry executive at Daimler Truck North America who became president and chief executive officer of Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp and Thomas Built Buses, effective 9 September 2024. In that role he is responsible for all aspects of both brands, including strategy, sales and operations, and he succeeded Kevin Bangston, who moved on to lead Daimler Truck Financial Services North America. Reed joined Daimler Truck in 1998 as a custom application engineer for vocational trucks and went on to hold leadership roles in product marketing and strategy and in pricing and profit and loss responsibility. He also spent six years at Meritor, where his senior positions included vice president of global business development for electrification, and before his appointment he was president of Daimler Truck Remarketing and its SelecTrucks brand. He holds an MBA from Michigan State University and a bachelor's degree in business and history from Muskingum University.