Training, Tooling, Information
Learn three factors to help your shop be as efficient as possible in diagnostics. We expect to complete testing inside of an hour in most cases in my shop. Even for the hard jobs, it is our rule of thumb.…
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News BriefsJanuary 2014
Shop Owner Elected 2014 NASTF Chair Allen Pennebaker, owner of Orinda Motors of Orinda, Calif., an ASA member-shop, was elected the 2014 chairperson of the NASTF board of directors, the first independent shop owner to chair NASTF since its founding…
Refine Your Skills, Helps Others Do the Same
As we put the holidays behind us and enter into a new year, we have the feeling that the calendar change has granted us a new beginning with fresh opportunities. It feels like a time when we put the old…
Generationally SpeakingJanuary 2014
See what makes us different ... and the same! About 90 percent of ASA member-shops are family-owned businesses, according to our 2013 “How’s Your Business?” survey results. Learn what different generations from the same shop are thinking and how they…
‘Cash for Clunkers’ Program Found to Be an Ineffective Economic Stimulus
ASA opposed federal program to destroy older vehicles In 2009, the U.S. Congress passed the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act, and the president signed the bill June 24, 2009. As implemented by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the…
How’s Your Business? 2013
A Report of ASA Member-Shops in 2013 Survey Methodology The 2013 “How’s Your Business?” survey was offered through a third-party online survey service to all regular members via ASA newsletters. Regular members are automotive service businesses that provide automotive repairs/services…
Serviceability Report: Mitsubishi Outlander
Is the new 2014 SUV a step ahead in the service bay? Recently, Deb, my wife and partner at ACDC, pointed out that I have not covered Mitsubishi in this column. Was it that the 1985 Galant that sat on…
Generationally SpeakingDecember 2013
See what makes us different ... and the same! About 90 percent of ASA member-shops are family-owned businesses, according to our 2013 “How’s Your Business?” survey results. Learn what different generations from the same shop are thinking and how they…
The Science of Performance
Three more character traits to cultivate: courtesy, humility and unselfishness. Increasingly, neuroscience is uncovering new fundamentals for how to drive organizational performance from our Jobs at the Top. Capitalizing on these findings requires courage. And enough self-confidence to reconsider the…
News Briefs - December 2013
NHTSA Releases 2012 Vehicle Crashes Report The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released a study stating motor vehicle crashes and fatalities increased in 2012, after six consecutive years of declining fatalities. The number of fatalities increased from 32,479 in 2011…
News Extras - December 2013
ASA: How We Keep You Going! Recap of Mechanical, Collision, Legislative Activities Why belong to the Automotive Service Association? You may be a nonmember reading this and trying to decide whether you should invest the dues amount to join when…
Help Wanted, Seeking Leaders to Serve
Help Wanted, Seeking Leaders to Serve Winston Churchill said, “You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.” Within ASA we have many great volunteers who give of themselves for others. And we…
WIN Announces Opening of Most Influential Women Nominations
The winners will be recognized at a Most Influential Women gala held during the 2014 WIN Educational Conference, May 5-7, 2014, at Paradise Point in San Diego. Nomination forms may be downloaded from the WIN website at www.Womens IndustryNetwork.com under…
Exciting Changes for NACE, CARS
New partnerships, strategies announced as event wraps Highlights of this year’s Automotive Service and Repair Week (ASRW) event held Oct. 16-18, 2013, in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center include the robust conference program with more than 100…
ASA-Michigan Board Objects to Some Insurer Mandates
Statewide forum focused on MFN clauses, State Farm PartsTrader rollout. Recently, the Automotive Service Association of Michigan held a well-attended Collision Repair Forum in Lansing, Mich., regarding State Farm’s PartsTrader rollout and Most Favored Nation (MFN) clauses. Collision repairers from…
Congress Continues Obamacare Oversight
A report on small business committee hearings on the implementation of Obamacare The U.S. House of Representatives has ramped up its review of Obamacare or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). With the technical problems that have crippled…
Market vs. Need
Members of the Automotive Service Association’s Collision Division Operations Committee have written an article about “Market vs. Need” that discusses auto body repair costs in relationship to insurer pay. The article was co-authored by Scott Benavidez, AAM, and April Hernandez,…
Official Notification of Candidates for the ASA National Board of Directors
In accordance with the bylaws of the Automotive Service Association (ASA), this announcement shall serve as official notice of the slate of candidates for three positions for the ASA board of directors – general director; mechanical division director; and collision…
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