“Clearing the Confusion” developers have given the Collision Industry Conference “their blessing” to reproduce and use the SAE generic nomenclature for various advanced driver assistance systems, a CIC committee co-chair said last month. This final [...]
Editor’s note: As a collision repairer spraying coatings, you’re by default regulated under the “6H” rule. But you might be eligible for an exemption. A new Environmental Protection Agency tool will help shops easily figure [...]
Pennsylvania and national trade groups this week honored body shop owner and industry advocate Gerald “Rick” Dotterer, who died suddenly Saturday after contracting COVID-19. He was 63. A second-generation shop owner, Dotterer ran Royersford, Pa.-based [...]
Citing plans to “advance the digitization” of the automotive supplies giant, 3M has invested in asTech. Terms of were not disclosed in asTech’s Tuesday announcement of the deal. AsTech’s private equity owner Kinderhook Industries confirmed [...]
Wisconsin’s auto body repair trade group announced this month it has changed its name of 50 years. The former Wisconsin Auto Collision Technicians Association Limited (“WACTAL”) will now be known as Wisconsin Collision Repair Professionals [...]
The Biden administration on Monday announced a two-week window in which only companies with fewer than 20 employees would be considered for first or second Paycheck Protection Program loans. The loan application exclusivity period begins [...]
Allstate last month gave its Good Hands Repair Network collision centers an extensive directive on scanning, describing the charges it’ll reimburse and the tools and thought process it’d like them to use on the operation. [...]
LKQ on Thursday told analysts it anticipated having to grow its mobile services subsidiary Elitek by developing technicians in-house, rather than relying simply on buying up share. The publicly traded company’s expansion plans for Elitek [...]
USAA has extended its timeframe for reimbursing auto body shops’ COVID-19 vehicle sanitization efforts through the end of the first quarter. The nation’s fifth largest insurer said it would definitely cover certain cleaning charges until [...]
BMW last week described issues which could arise if auto body shops substituted incorrect parts on its vehicles. The wrong windshield could throw off advanced driver assistance systems by distorting a camera’s view of the [...]
