Wendy Leavitt

Director, editorial & market development
Fleet Owner

 

Wendy Leavitt joined Fleet Owner in 1998 after serving as editor-in-chief of Trucking Technology magazine for four years.

She began her career in the trucking industry at Kenworth Truck Company in Kirkland, WA where she spent 16 years—the first five years as safety and compliance manager in the engineering department and more than a decade as the company’s manager of advertising and public relations. She has also worked as a book editor, guided authors through the self-publishing process and operated her own marketing and public relations business.

Wendy has a Masters Degree in English and Art History from Western Washington University, where, as a graduate student, she also taught writing.  

Articles by Wendy Leavitt
THE TLA Journal
Training and accountability Once upon a booming economy, training programs enjoyed a unique status in the business world as expenses that were typically
Fleet Owner to host online fleet management forum
In some ways, all good magazines are one-half of an interesting conversation. Now FLEET OWNER readers have a new way to actively enter into the conversation,
Freightliner rebound plan
Freightliner LLC has unveiled how it plans to return to profitability by 2004. The North American truck subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler's Commercial Vehicle
Safe landings
Once, on a beautiful fall day about 2,000 ft. over Modesto, CA, the vintage Cessna airplane in which I was flying ran out of fuel. The cheerful, steady
Technology still counts
Around the campfires of dying dot-coms, melancholy former executives stare into the last glowing embers and sing: Oh give me a home where technology roams,
Stevens Transport lends a hand
Like many other fleets across the country, refrigerated carrier Stevens Transport of Dallas has responded to requests for help by lending units to the
Stevens Transport lends a hand
Like many other fleets across the country, refrigerated carrier Stevens Transport of Dallas has responded to requests for help by lending units to the
TMI and customers work together to take care of business
TripPak Express serves about 700 truckload carriers, providing next-day and two-day delivery of driver trip envelopes collected from drop boxes around
Financial literacy
Learning the language of business
Clean-air demo turns off engines
IdleAire Technologies has unveiled a demonstration project aimed at reducing emissions from idling diesel trucks at the Hunts Point Market in New York
Whispering sweet nothings
Alternative power technologies are set to woo the trucking industry away from diesel
Good-bye idling, good buy
The days of truck engine idling are almost over. The good news is you can take that to the bank.
In praise of Larry Orr
Earth receive an honored guest ...
Maxitorque ES transmissions and GuardDog introduced
Mack has introduced a new line-up of lightweight, driver-friendly transmissions designed to maximize the performance of an all-Mack engine/transmission
In Praise of Larry Orr
“The quality that always impressed me about Larry Orr was not that he was a brilliant engineer, which he was, but the way he could create an atmosphere for innovation.”

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