Get Your [April] Affairs in Order

Can I use a dramatic title to catch your attention? I hope that I have.

It’s a really big amount of effort from WMABA and the Carolinas Collision Association to bring Virginia its first-ever tradeshow in the Southeast Collision Conference, along with our Collision P.R.E.P. classes, all coming to the Richmond, VA-area when other national opportunities will also be present. The Collision Industry Conference – a large open industry forum with open discussion – and SCRS’ industry meetings, will also be placing themselves square in our region in the same week.

It’s a big deal because you’re here, and you need this opportunity as much as it needs you to be there for it.

Members beg for good education at the front door, and this is your front porch. Even if you’re coming from Maryland or West Virginia, the drive to Richmond is more reasonable than having to fly across the country for what in coming in April.

I want you to get your kid- or dog-sitter situated, tell your family this is a high priority and make this happen – for YOURSELF. You need this, your colleagues need this, and your associations who support you need you there to come experience just how much you can grow when given the right amount of “water, fertilizer and sunlight”. The classes and vendors are major collaborations to give you both information and empowerment to be more readied for vehicle advancements still even yet to come.

The panel discussions alone are reason enough, with both all-EV OEMs and traditional OEMs with EV models diving into the electrification of vehicles and how to manage them in your repair facilities. That means before they get to you, when they are there, and during the repair process. Special considerations and preparations must be made even for the safety of the employees handling them. The other panel discussion of “Repairer to Repairer” is going to expose all the current issues every shop faces, but with the assurances of those who’ve made strides to lead the rest of the industry with their successes, and failures too. Let them show you how they’ve changed and evolved, and how you can as well.

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Professional Repairer Education

Program

If you don’t put on the armor of education, relationships, and tooling, you are quite literally exposed to everything. You’re exposing your customers to safety issues, your business to profit losses, and your sanity to well, insanity.

Come to the CIC, SCRS meetings April 12/13, and stay the Friday and Saturday April 14/15 to attend SCC, the education, take part in the tradeshow vendor offerings and demonstrations, and even have fun with contests, door raffles and prizes!

I assure you, it will be better to come and feel alive than to miss out on what will be the event of the year! H&D