Blue Point Capital Partners on Friday announced it had bought Transtar Holding Company, the transmission and driveline-focused conglomerate whose subsidiaries also include Transtar Autobody Technologies. Terms of the deal between the two Cleveland, Ohio-area companies [...]
The Automotive Service Association on Thursday previewed to the industry its work on a position statement defining scanning as a necessary not-included procedure — and clarifying all related operations as separate not-included items. ASA Collision [...]
Calling the Database Enhancement Gateway’s information “invaluable” to both association members and the collision industry, the Carolinas Collision Association has joined the ranks of DEG Gold sponsors. “CCA is extremely proud to partner with the [...]
Collision Advice CEO Mike Anderson and AirPro technician training specialists Bobby Schnell this week warned of ADAS issues which don’t throw a diagnostic trouble code. Rather, shops must check what Schnell called the “live data.” [...]
The latest “Who Pays for What?” survey found about half the body shops polled reporting that eight major insurers reimburse invoiced aluminum labor rates always or most of the time. The percentages of shops seeing [...]
Advanced driver assistance systems calibrations present an example of what economics terms a “credence good,” CIC Industry Relations Committee Co-Chairman Jonathan Chase observed Wednesday. A credence good represents a black box to the consumer buying [...]
Toyota’s latest Collision Pros newsletter for auto body professionals reveals multiple aluminum elements and the location of some higher-strength steels on the 2021 Venza, Toyota’s completely new hybrid SUV. Toyota at the time of the [...]
All body shops and other small businesses are now eligible to apply for “first draw” and “second draw” PPP loans as the Small Business Administration opened the program to all classes of lenders on Tuesday. [...]
Canadian safety charity Parachute on Tuesday announced an inaugural telematics competition to find “Canada’s Safety Driver” produced sustained improvement in the riskiest competitors. But the majority of competitors “returned to their old habits by contest [...]
A new PropertyCasualty360 opinion piece by MDgo CEO Itay Bengad argues that OEM auto insurance threatens traditional carriers operating solo but also poses a brand and financial risk to insurers who partner with automakers. Bengad [...]
