by Lee Procida | Dec 6, 2022
Parents in the United States have become slightly more likely over the past two years to support their children in pursuing a career in the trades, although they would prefer their kids become electricians, plumbers and HVAC repair professionals over automotive...
by Lee Procida | Nov 17, 2022
The number of students who earned postsecondary degrees as auto technicians dropped by nearly 12 percent last year, the largest single-year decline since auto tech graduations began declining in 2012, according to a new report from the TechForce Foundation. This is...
by Lee Procida | Oct 4, 2022
For 35 years, Tom and Ray Magliozzi helped coach car owners through their problems on Car Talk, with the last new episode recorded exactly a decade ago. Before they were Click and Clack, they operated their own repair shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Interesting...
by Lee Procida | Sep 15, 2022
Stew Waliser’s new auto repair garage is opening this month, complete with 10 bays and a variety of lifts and equipment, like transmission jacks, engine stands, engine hoists, a spring compressor, a MIG welder and hundreds of tools. The one thing he’s seemingly short...
by Lee Procida | Aug 4, 2022
If you’ve noticed more customers coming in with chewed wires and chicken bones in their engine bay, you’re apparently not alone. The New York Times published an article today on a reported rise of rats in cars causing all sorts of mayhem, from cutting wires to leaving...
by Lee Procida | Jul 28, 2022
For more than three decades now, the Auto Care Association, the leading trade association for the automotive aftermarket, has released a massive trove of data called the Auto Care Factbook. It’s intended to provide a sweeping overview of what’s happening across the...