The Certified Automotive Parts Association on Thursday announced it had created a Standard 703 for ultrasonic parking sensors. The protocol “may be expanded to include other types of sensors in the future,” CAPA wrote in [...]
Did you get rust under your body filler? Don’t blame the mud, according to 3M senior technical service engineer Ricky Miller. “This is a big topic,” he said of the rust-under-filler issue during a 3M [...]
When Dent Wizard senior manager of talent acquisition and talent strategy Tony Suzda arrived at the company a few years ago, there was a “very simple process.” It relied on what recruiters call “‘post and [...]
Eventually, this too shall pass. The COVID-19 coronavirus response will ease, and Americans will flood back onto the roads and produce an industry worth of crashes. At this point, shops will likely once again find [...]
Car rental giant Hertz Global Holdings announced Friday it and multiple subsidiaries had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but the company would remain open and be able to pay new vendors. “Hertz has over [...]
Believe it or not, the past two months have seen some news besides the COVID-19 coronavirus. It’s understandable if readers ignored it and focused on articles related to protecting collision repair colleagues, customers, and livelihoods [...]
A United Kingdom auto body repair trade group has called on insurers to offer pricing concessions to network collision repairers reeling from reduced demand. The National Body Repair Association’s suggestions might offer ideas for U.S. [...]
Collision repairers will need to be mindful of both the structure and surface on the next-generation 2021 Hyundai Elantra revealed earlier this year. In addition to carrying Hyundai’s lighter but stronger third-generation K3 platform, the [...]
Auto body shop owners whose employees come down with the COVID-19 coronavirus might need to record it using revised rules OSHA unveiled Tuesday. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said companies must record any “work-related” [...]
Enterprise data indicates length of rental climbed significantly in April from a year ago, with the rental giant offering an analysis crediting the COVID-19’s “unique disruptions to existing processes and customers’ lives” as the root [...]
