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Is This For Real?
Don't Ask, Don't Get Arrested: You know how occasionally some crook will get pulled over for some relatively minor issue like speeding, and when the cops run his plates, it turns out the guy is wanted for bank robbery or murder?
You can chalk that up to bad luck. But what a man in Athens, Georgia did can't be considered anything but stupid. It seems he pulled over a passing police car to inquire whether he had any warrants outstanding against him!
The officer informed him that no, there were no warrants, but that the man's driver license was under suspension, so he shouldn't be driving, and was arrested.
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Switch Out is having a contest! Registered participant that send in at least two collection pails in 2009
will be automatically entered.The winning business will be featured in an article in the 2010 edition of Canadian Auto Recyclers magazine. |
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Did you Know...?
That Had Better Be the Best Car Wax in the World: Swizöl International specializes in hand-made car care products. Expensive ingredients doing things by hand mean the company's cheapest wax, "Onyx," costs $95. Their costliest standard wax is "Mystery," which can be purchased for $555.
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Mitchell has released its latest Industry Trends Report. It's a good solid issue, with the usual Canada specific section. Of particular interest to me this time around, though, was an article by Jason Bertellotti, VP of repair solutions for Mitchell. It's on the data collection methods used in customer satisfaction surveys. It gives a capsule review of each of the most prominent methods, and speculates about how surveying methods will evolve to fit new communications technology. Mike Davey,Editor |
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Mitchell Issues Latest Trends Report
 Mitchell International today released the third quarter 2009 edition of
its Industry Trends Report (ITR)-the company's quarterly publication
that highlights industry-related trends, news items and statistics. This edition's Quarterly Feature, "Looking at Europe to Predict
the Future of U.S. Collision Repair," by Mitchell's Vice President of
Industry Relations, Greg Horn, compellingly argues that Europe's
experience with advanced vehicle technology clearly predicts the future
changes in the U.S. collision repair industry.
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Canadian Volunteers Receive Multiple Awards at I-CAR's Annual Conference
I-CAR gathered for its 30th Annual Industry Conference at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC from July 28 through July 31 and attracted over 260 participants from the collision repair inter-industry.
This year's conference focused on the legacy of volunteers as the not-for-profit training organization celebrated its 30th anniversary. The conference opened with a new event, an inter-industry trade show, on Tuesday, July 28, where 26 exhibitors, who also sponsored the conference, had the opportunity to share information with conference attendees and the public.
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Lyndsay Gates of CRANS receives the Superior Performer Award from Joe Da Cunha of I-CAR. This award is given to one committee in each region for best overall performance in terms of meeting or exceeding goals.
Created in 2008, the Horizon Award is given to honour the zone that has the highest percentage over its goal. Canada's is the 2009 recipient.
Sid Petrisor of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Petrisor not only received a Volunteer PIN for 30 years of volunteer service to I-CAR, he took home the Instructor of the Year Award and the Founder's Award.
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Headline News
AkzoNobel Creates Low-VOC Upgrade for Sikkens Colorbuild Plus
AkzoNobel is taking Sikkens Colorbuild to what the company calls "a whole new level." AkzoNobel says that when launched in September 2009, the...
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PPG Helps CertifiedFirst Conduct Classes for Insurance Agents
PPG is helping its CertifiedFirst Network collision centre owners and managers build relationships with insurance agents through its Continui...
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Chief Signs Distribution Deal with RS Finishing Systems
RS Finishing Systems, a collision repair equipment distributor in
Ontario, has been awarded exclusive rights to the Ontario market by
Chief Automotive Technologies. The partnership is effective
immediately, and means RS Finishing Systems will become the sole source
of Chief's full line of pulling, measuring and anchoring systems for
Ontario-area shops.
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