STRANGE BUT TRUE: Loose Moose Tranquilized, Falls on Two Cars
The moose is loose, or at least it was until Utah Division Wildlife Resource officers corralled it and then shot it with a tranquilizer dart after it wandered onto a Brigham Young University parking lot. But what are the odds that it would still manage to run through a barricade and then collapse onto two
JUNE COVER STORY: Protect Your Interests
With the proper legal advice, you can use these documents to establish you and your customers’ rights, obligations and interests at the outset of your business relationship.
SCRS Asks U.S. Attorney General to Investigate Possible Anti-Trust Activity
The Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) has joined efforts currently supported by a number of collision repair organizations across the country in a request to the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate violations of federal antitrust laws that many repairers feel are taking place in today’s marketplace. “Stemming
Ohio Shop Reaches Thousands in Community with Safety Stickers
The owners of Dynamic Autobody CARSTAR in Columbiana, Ohio, have made a living fixing cars after accidents, but are now helping to intervene at the accident scene. The shop – owned by Kathy and Dave George and their son Nick George – is offering free Toddler Info Kept for Emergency (TIKE) stickers for community members’
New Chrysler-Provided Sectioning Procedure Saves Car from Total Loss
VeriFacts Automotive recently acknowledged the Chrysler Corporation for its response to a collision repair shop’s problem with fixing a vehicle that didn’t have published rear sectioning procedures for the required repair. Chrysler’s development of a repair procedure enabled the shop to properly repair this vehicle rather than write it off as a total loss, VeriFacts
Letters to the Editor
The New DRP I was confused by your January 2009 cover story [“The New DRP,” pg. 22]. There are so many reasons why DRPs should be banned, and even though the article touches on the fact that many people in the collision repair industry feel that way, it takes on a defeated tone. Rather than
TECH FEATURE: The Case of the Murdered Paint Job
A horrible paint job. A miffed vehicle owner. An upset insurance company. We were out to crack the case. And everyone and everything were suspects.
STRANGE BUT TRUE: ‘Meteorwrong’ Likely Culprit in Melted Windshield
A California man recently swapped his 1999 Oldsmobile Bravada in good condition for a smashed-up 1995 Isuzu Trooper, believing the Trooper’s value doesn’t lie in its spare parts but in the damage itself. Roy Howard of Anderson, Calif., made the trade after the Isuzu was hit Feb. 26 by an unidentifiable piece of debris that
CARSTAR Offers 10 Tips to Surviving in Today’s Economy
With the economy struggling mightily, CARSTAR has released 10 action steps it’s advising its stores and other collision repair facilities to take to survive and hopefully thrive during tough times. “Store owners should be making every effort to tighten their belts and reduce overhead, which is absolutely essential considering all the margin squeezes we