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Happy Holidays from CollisionWeek
Happy Holidays from the staff of CollisionWeek. We wish you and your family a safe and happy holiday season and thank you for your support in 2024. While we will keep an eye out for breaking news during the holiday period, daily news coverage, including emails, will resume on January 2, 2025.
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Backyard Competition: Analysis of U.S. Collision Repair Non-Employers
The number of small collision repairers in the U.S. without employees reported record revenue in 2022. As the collision repair industry continues to grow following the pandemic as evidenced by our reports detailing the number of independent repair facilities with payroll and collision repair production, the number of smaller repairers, those without payroll, remain at […]
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Record Number of Holiday Travelers Expected
AAA projects more than 119 million Americans will travel over the year-end holidays. AAA projects 119.3 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home over the year-end holiday period from Saturday, December 21 to Wednesday, January 1. This year’s domestic travel projection narrowly surpasses the previous record set in 2019 by 64,000 travelers. […]
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Collision Repair Education Foundation End of Year Scholarship Fundraiser Highlights Success Stories of Past Recipients
The Collision Repair Education Foundation (CREF) is highlighting “Where Are They Now?” in a series of profiles of past scholarship recipients as it seeks to raise $20,000 at the end of 2024 to fund additional scholarships collision repair students. The profiles and a link to donate are available online. The series showcases the journeys of […]
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NABC to Host Three Changing and Saving Lives Golf Events in 2025
The National Auto Body Council announced it will host three golf events in 2025 through the Changing and Saving Lives Foundation, making sponsorship and golf donations tax-deductible for companies and participants. It also will continue to offer the popular full-season sponsorship program, making it more affordable and more efficient to be a partner in the […]
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NHTSA Announces $171 Million in Grants to Upgrade Crash Data Collection Systems
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced $171 million in grants to 19 states and territories to upgrade and standardize their crash data systems. The system upgrades will improve the accuracy, timeliness, and accessibility of fatality information, including data about pedestrians and cyclists, through enhanced intrastate data sharing and electronic transfers to NHTSA. The states […]
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Collision Repair Industry Production Up in October
Production in October was up both year-over-year and month-over-month. An analysis of the latest data released from the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) covering the preliminary October collision repair employment, hours worked and wages indicated production was up compared to September and up from October 2023. Production in June through September […]
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ProColor Collision Adds Repair Facility to Network in East Los Angeles
ProColor Collision announced the addition of a new collision repair center to its network in East Los Angeles. The newest ProColor Collision in California is owned and operated by Armando and Elisa Flores and is located at 4435 East Olympic Blvd. “We are happy about our future with ProColor Collision,” said Armando Flores. “We purchased […]
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MEMA Urges Resolution to East Coast and Gulf Coast Port Strike Negotiations
MEMA, The Vehicle Suppliers Association joined 267 organizations that have signed a letter led by the National Retail Federation urging the International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance to return to the negotiating table and work toward a resolution before the January 15 contract expiration date. In October, dockworkers from Maine to Texas […]
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Gas Price Decline Stalls
According to AAA the decline in gas prices has slowed as the national average for a gallon of gas, which shed less than a penny since last week to reach $3.02. It has been close to the $3 level for five weeks yet faces stubborn resistance. Meanwhile, today’s national average per kilowatt hour of electricity […]
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