Everyday customers come into your Service Drive, we perform routine maintenance for them and/or repair their cars. We may get them in and out in a timely manner and everyone...
Fixed and Variable operations are located under the same roof! Yet, they are often worlds apart. It is time to bridge those two worlds once and for all! As industry...
Much of what we accomplish in life is determined by what we think is possible. If we think something is possible then we feel we have a fighting chance to...
It's no secret, people love to keep their cars longer these days. In fact, one study suggests the average age of vehicles in the U.S. is a record 11.6 years....
Franchised or not, customer vehicle pick-up and delivery is a growing service. But can small dealers keep up with large dealer groups in convenience?
The 2016 Maintenance & Repair Study by...
Joe sits down with Michael Roppo, Director of Fixed-Ops with Withum, Smith & Brown. Michael and Joe go over how you can improve your fixed-ops department as well as Michael's...
Recruiting technicians is never a hard job. The real difficulty is recruiting technicians worth your money and time. Too often in my career as a technician was I forced to...
We all know service revenue is important to a dealership's bottom line, especially now in what some are calling a "plateau" in new car sales. The stats that show the...
With all the technical innovations now available in the modern automobile, it stands to reason there would be a corresponding effect on the maintenance requirements that would help reduce costs...
Takata, the Japanese company behind the faulty airbag inflators, filed for bankruptcy protection. Despite the spiraling debt the company has incurred (which is estimated to be around $9 Billion), Karl...