GM hires former NHTSA administrator Strickland to oversee regulatory affairs

General Motors this week brought on board the former top American auto safety official to help advance the automaker’s vision for an all-electric and autonomous vehicle future. Effective Oct. 1, David Strickland will begin serving [...]

2021-09-24T07:21:04-04:00September 24th, 2021|RDN News Feed|

Idaho workforce council invests in collision repair technology training

The state of Idaho has awarded a $1.3 million grant to Lewis-Clark State College for building improvements and equipment purchases that will help it expand its collision repair technology program in response to unmet student [...]

2021-09-23T10:21:04-04:00September 23rd, 2021|RDN News Feed|

Mitchell updates its CEG; addresses labor information and other non-included operations

Mitchell International, Inc., has made some recent changes under quite a few categories of its Collision Estimating Guide P-pages. This represents the first changes to the procedural explanations since 2016. They occur under the Labor [...]

2021-09-23T07:21:04-04:00September 23rd, 2021|RDN News Feed|

Federal judge asked to reconsider class action status for DV suit against State Farm

Two Georgia plaintiffs are asking a federal judge to reconsider his denial of class action certification to more than 600,000 State Farm insurance policy holders over what the two say are years of lowball diminished [...]

2021-09-22T07:21:06-04:00September 22nd, 2021|RDN News Feed|

2022 Toyota Tundra features stronger frame, composite pickup bed

Toyota on Sunday revealed its all-new 2022 Tundra, which incorporates a new high-strength, boxed, steel-ladder frame, an aluminum-reinforced composite pickup bed and a fully redesigned multi-link rear suspension in its design. Beneath its “Technical Muscle” [...]

2021-09-21T07:21:03-04:00September 21st, 2021|RDN News Feed|

NHTSA opens probe into 30 million vehicles over air bag inflators

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Monday launched an engineering analysis into potentially defective and dangerous U.S. vehicles – a whopping 30 million of them – due to more concerns with Takata air [...]

2021-09-21T06:51:04-04:00September 21st, 2021|RDN News Feed|

Rising commercial insurance costs leave few options for shop owners

The costs of commercial insurance continued to rise during the second quarter of 2021, though the rate of increase has slowed somewhat from the previous quarter, according to a survey by Willis Towers Watson, a [...]

2021-09-20T07:21:04-04:00September 20th, 2021|RDN News Feed|

Verizon adds teen driver monitoring to Smart Family app

Verizon, the largest wireless carrier in the U.S., has added teen driver monitoring technologies as premium features of its Verizon Smart Family app, through a partnership with Cambridge Mobile Telematics, the world’s largest smartphone telematics [...]

2021-09-20T06:51:05-04:00September 20th, 2021|RDN News Feed|
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