Pre-employment testing is an absolute must.

Guarantee a great hire by taking a thorough hiring approach.

A thorough estimate will allow you to maximize your profits from a repair job.

No repair is complete without a thorough and proper detailing job.

Shops need to consider factors such as cost, work volume and the environment before purchasing a new paint booth.

The Smart Car design provides saferty and fuel efficiency, along with some serious challenges to repairers.

Ultraviolet curing works through a chemical process, and has been gaining acceptance in the collision repair industry.

Many body shop owners and managers, myself included, used to operate our shops "by hand." By this, I mean hand-writing estimates, tracking repairs on a route sheet and posting work to be done on whiteboards in the shop. Thankfully, nearly every shop in operation today utilizes computers and computer programs to write estimates and track repairs. By doing so, we have increased efficiencies somewhat and been able to be more effective shop executives.

I grew up and have spent most of my life in the Midwest. I love the changing seasons and the few first warm days of spring after a long cold winter. As I get older however, I have really begun to hate winter but merely from a personal standpoint. Professionally, there is nothing better for the collision industry than ice and snow on the roads. It has always been great for business.