by Lee Procida | Jun 14, 2022
As California goes, so does car care. The Golden State’s instituted some of the nation’s strictest emissions standards, partly because it’s generally progressive, and partly because it’s had some of the nation’s worst air pollution. Automakers and other states have...
by Lee Procida | Apr 12, 2022
In 2016, 8-year-old Jayanna Powell was killed by a car while walking home from school. The driver fled, and had an accomplice take his damaged Nissan Altima to a body shop in the next county. The shop owner called the police after seeing on TV that they were looking...
by Lee Procida | Feb 22, 2022
When Logan Brown first heard about a national auto technician skills competition, he was slightly skeptical. “Who the hell’s going to pay a technician $40,000 to show off his skills?” he said recently. The answer was the first annual U.S. Auto Tech National...
by Lee Procida | Feb 5, 2022
New legislation in Congress would require automakers to provide independent repair shops with all information and tools necessary to service their motor vehicles, the first such law proposed in the United States and the latest in a series of moves nationwide to...
by Lee Procida | Jan 6, 2022
In a shining example of how to probably not treat your employees, a car repair shop in Georgia went viral in March 2021 for paying a disgruntled former manager by dumping more than 90,000 pennies, possibly covered in power steering fluid, in a pile at the end of his...