Estimates, Associated Legal Risks Will Be Discussed at Upcoming Ohio Seminar
Collision Shop Seminar Sponsored by USACP, CARA, ASC of Kentucky and ASA of Ohio.
Choice Autobody Repair Association is Newest SCRS Affiliate
The Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) announced that the Choice Autobody Repair Association (CARA) is its 39th affiliate association. CARA is an Ohio-based group of repairers with members in an increasing number of other states. It maintains an unwavering focus on vehicle owner rights, with an emphasis on consumer awareness. When CARA wanted to
Empower Your Customers
Join Choice Autobody Repair Association’s consumer awareness campaign to empower customers with the knowledge that they can choose you to repair their vehicles. They chose their vehicles, they chose their insurance companies and they have the right to make you their choice to repair their vehicles. Call (877) 635-2272.
Shop Employee’s Illness Highlights Industry’s Lack of Health Insurance
When a member of the industry gets sick, it affects their well-being, their family and their employer. When that employee doesn’t have health insurance, not only is their health still in jeopardy, but also their financial future. Jason Van Der Sluis recently started a new job as a body technician at an auto body shop
List of Auto Body Trade Associations
NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Alliance of Automotive Service Providers (AASP) Minneapolis, Minn. Tel: (612) 270-6696 www.autoserviceproviders.com Automotive Service Association (ASA) Bedford, Texas Tel: (800) 272-7467 www.asashop.org Coalition for Collision Repair Excellence (CCRE) Bainbridge Island, Wash. Tel: (877) 700-7743 www.theccre.com Collision Industry Relief Mechanicsville, Va. Tel: (888) 667-7433 www.collisionindustryrelief.com Independent Auto Body Association (IABA) Raleigh, N.C. Tel: (336)
It’s Show Time!
Place Your Bets on NACE 2004.
The Cynic’s Guide to Structural Repairs
After 30 years of working on critically wounded vehicles, I can safely say I’ve pretty much done it all when it comes to surgical frame and structure repairs. I can also safely say that timely, quality repairs can still be done in our time-and-labor-hostile environment.
Shattered Market: The Body Shop Glass Business
NAGS list price discounts are increasing, labor payments aredecreasing and deals made behind our backs are eroding profitability. Still, you might want to consider performing your own glass installations since, ultimately, you’re the one shouldering the liability.
Mc Bodywork: Three C Body Shop
n on the facility’s management is often monumental. Dumbing Down Our Workforce The expertise required to fix accident-damaged cars has long been the strength of the collision repair profession. It’s a specialty. From the viewpoint of the lay person, there’s still a good deal of magic surrounding the work. But during the ’90s, the industry
Bugged: The Alliance of American Insurers.
Big bugs live in Maui. Here in Ohio, winter takes care of most of our bugs. They don’t have long to live so they don’t have enough time to grow into monsters. Bugs in Maui, however, never know winter, so they just keep growing … and growing … and growing. I know this because I