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The Correlation Between Blueprinting and Profitability in Collision Repair Shops

March 26, 2025
Blueprinting is not just a technical process - it is a financial strategy.

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Bryant on Survival Through Consistency: The Discipline to Thrive in Collision Repair

March 19, 2025
The shops that will make it through today’s challenges are the ones that do the hard things, the right things, consistently.
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A popular 1955 trade journal. Trade journals were localized in the 1940s and 1950s.
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YesterWreck – The Column #7: The Collision Repair Industry – 1950 - 1959

March 19, 2025
It was America’s Eisenhower-decade; life was pretty good for most people and the collision repair industry, as we know it today, began to evolve.
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Menefee: Do You Want to Win the Battle, or Do You Want to Win the War? 

March 18, 2025
Dealing with insurers may feel like a long, uphill battle, but there is strength in numbers and the actions we can take.
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Batenhorst: How do you measure shop throughput? Are you ignoring a crucial KPI?

March 4, 2025
Waste reduction in the shop is important, but even more basic is the measurement of flow.
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Lobsiger: Taming the 500-lb. Payroll Gorilla

March 3, 2025
Step 1: Is your staffing level rightsized?
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World War II accelerated the development and production of special aviation and industrial coatings, as found on this B-17 'Flying Fortress,' that would later fit peacetime applications.
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YesterWreck – The Column #6: The Collision Repair Industry – 1940 - 1949 

Feb. 27, 2025
WWII brought massive changes to American society — and the collision repair industry.
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Menefee: The Hidden Epidemic in Body Shops

Feb. 24, 2025
By opening a conversation about substance abuse, we can begin to break the cycle and create a healthier, more supportive workplace.