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Seth Clevenger

Managing Editor, Features and Multimedia

@sethclevenger

Seth Clevenger is managing editor of features at Transport Topics. He plans, writes and edits news features for Transport Topics’ weekly newspaper, supplemental publications and TTNews.com. 


Special Coverage, Business, Fuel

Favorable Economics Seen Boosting Natural Gas as Trucking Fuel

ARLINGTON, Va. — The trucking industry’s adoption of natural-gas vehicles will be driven by favorable economics made possible by a vast domestic supply of the fuel, natural-gas producers and advocates said Thursday at a conference examining the fuel’s potential for transportation, hosted by American Trucking Associations.

Seth Clevenger | Managing Editor, Features and Multimedia
November 29, 2012
Special Coverage, Business, Fuel

Producers Cite Positive Shift in Outlook for NatGas

ARLINGTON, Va. — The use of natural gas as a transportation fuel is increasing in an “era of unconventional” fuel sources, executives of several energy producers said at ATA’s Summit on Natural Gas in Trucking on Thursday.

Seth Clevenger | Managing Editor, Features and Multimedia
November 29, 2012
Business, Technology

Qualcomm’s Earnings Rise for 4Q, Year

Wireless technology and service provider Qualcomm Inc. reported a higher profit for both its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year.

Seth Clevenger | Managing Editor, Features and Multimedia
November 13, 2012
Special Coverage, Business, Technology

ATA Educational Truck Adds Electronic Log from XRS

LAS VEGAS — Mobile fleet software provider XRS Corp. said its Turnpike platform is now running on American Trucking Associations’ Interstate One truck, the first time that the educational tractor-trailer will use an electronic log.

Seth Clevenger | Managing Editor, Features and Multimedia
October 11, 2012
Business, Fuel

TMC Sets Task Forces to Address Natural Gas, Other Issues

PITTSBURGH — The Technology & Maintenance Council said it has formed new task forces to look at natural gas, coolant and electronics issues facing the trucking industry.

Seth Clevenger | Managing Editor, Features and Multimedia
September 26, 2012
Business

Ryder’s Christopher Barnett Wins TMC’s SuperTech Competition

PITTSBURGH — Christopher Barnett, a technician with Ryder System Inc., won the title of SuperTech grand champion this week, with a consistently strong performance as he navigated a written test and 17 diverse hands-on skills stations designed to challenge the nation’s top truck technicians.

Seth Clevenger | Managing Editor, Features and Multimedia
September 13, 2012
Business, Equipment

Cadec Names Pete Allen CEO

Fleet management technology provider Cadec Global Inc. announced that Pete Allen has joined the company as its new CEO.

Seth Clevenger | Managing Editor, Features and Multimedia
August 22, 2012
Business, Technology

Xata Cuts Jobs, Focuses on Mobile Platform

Transportation software provider Xata Corp recently cut 29 jobs in a step to “better align” its workforce with its mobile-based strategy, the company said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Seth Clevenger | Managing Editor, Features and Multimedia
July 9, 2012
Business

TT Associate Publisher Paul Rosenthal Dies at 54

Paul Rosenthal, associate publisher of marketing and circulation for Transport Topics Publishing Group, died suddenly on April 16 from natural causes. He was 54.

Seth Clevenger | Managing Editor, Features and Multimedia
April 20, 2012