Dealers

Well-done onboarding of new hires enhances work performance, boosts job satisfaction, fosters company loyalty and lowers staff turnover rates.

Women in the automotive remarketing industry digitally discuss the ups and downs of working from home as well as “What will be the next normal?”

Fyusion is developing detailed, used-vehicle condition reports using 3-D computer vision and artificial intelligence for use in auto auctions. Dickinson has a fleet of mobile repair units and technicians to maintain medium- and heavy-duty trucks...

“Do a virtual lot walk, not just a physical lot walk,” says Jasen Rice, owner of Lotpop, telling how to avoid making digital-inventory goofs.

Customers adjusting to COVID-19 want to know dealerships are taking their health concerns seriously. Interested buyers still are using their own disinfecting wipes to clean the car’s high-touch surfaces before they test-drive it – I’ve seen it...

Don’t look back. Gravity has a way of pulling us into decade-old habits. Fight it. With significant gains in CSI and net profitability under foot, we need to push forward and reap the rewards.

Forward-thinking companies are demonstrating how apprenticeship programs can help solve problems facing American businesses and society: skilled labor shortages in the auto sector and a growing rate of youth unemployment largely due to COVID-19.

Sticking points include the acceptability of electronic signatures; whether signatures can be notarized remotely, and whether allowing licensed new- and used-car dealers to engage in e-commerce also opens the door for unlicensed brokers to so.

TransUnion expects auto originations of about 6.9 million accounts in the first quarter of 2021, up about 8% from a year ago. The second-quarter forecast is 7.4 million accounts, an increase of 14.6% from the low point of 2020.