CCC last month significantly updated its Motor Guide to Estimating P-pages, adding much new information but deleting some passages as well. Changes are denoted with a star next to the section icon, and new text [...]

State collision trade groups’ initiatives and successes are a great source of ideas for not just their area’s collision centers but also shops and fellow associations nationwide. Here’s a few recent announcements you might have [...]

The majority of the Boyd Group’s work isn’t sourced through the company’s OEM certifications, but the company sees such efforts as positioning it in the right place when “the influence may shift,” Chief Operating Officer [...]

Boyd Group CEO Brock Bulbuck said last month insurers tend to accommodate the technician-seeking company’s need to raise rates for wage inflation. The Gerber Collision parent company told analysts Nov. 13 that the technician shortage [...]

CCC has taken a stand on what to call “Opt-OE” and other categories of components, issuing six parts definitions and binding suppliers to adhere to them. CCC Vice President of Market Solutions Mark Fincher said [...]

CCC has instructed suppliers not to classify blemished parts as any of the other six parts types permitted in its system, including “Optional OEM.” They just don’t fit any of the categories, and placing them [...]

A welding panel Nov. 7 during the SCRS OEM Collision Repair Technology Summit raised questions about the quality of the industry’s welding ability. The descriptions of how collision repairers have been managing one of the [...]

A Michigan dealership body shop who contributed “census” information to aid SCRS’s industry health care initiative was rewarded with a free asTech scan tool, the organization said last week. The drawing was open to any [...]

As you give thanks for all your blessings this Thanksgiving, it’s important to remember the less fortunate — particularly those tied to the collision repair industry. The Collision Industry Foundation on Friday said it is [...]