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    Employee termination
    Honesty and clarity go a long way in delivering bad news.
    Sept. 1, 2025
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    OpEx Calculator
    With claims counts declining, it may be time to proactively trim overhead expenditures to save cash flow and cut the monthly expense budget.
    Sept. 1, 2025
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    Collecting Car Keys
    AkzoNobel's Jim Lovejoy says it's time for shops to stop being order takers and proactively sell their services to get cars in the door.
    Sept. 1, 2025
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    Finding Diamonds
    With the right mindset and knowledge, we find that the "diamonds" we seek are already inside the walls of our shops.
    Sept. 1, 2025
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    Airplane Zooming Past its Rivals
    Are you ready to press the reset button and prep for a strong fourth quarter?
    Sept. 1, 2025
    Pronto Body Shop
    The author, pictured here with a collision-damaged Camaro.
    Collision repair is traditionally viewed as a male-dominated field, but women can contribute and thrive at every level from the shop floor to management.
    Sept. 1, 2025
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    This year's winners of the FenderBender Award and Best Repair Planner/Estimator
    Sept. 1, 2025
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    TOTAL LOSS POLICY: From left, Auto Body Association of Texas Executive Director Jill Tuggle moderates a panel including Max Keller, owner/manager of Conestoga Collision & Auto Body Repair, Berwyn, Penn.; Stephen Madrak, director of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, and David Willett, chief underwriting officer of Spark Underwriters.
    As they have increased across the country, total losses were the focus of the Summer Collision Industry Conference in Philadelphia.
    Sept. 1, 2025