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Boyd Says Repairable Claims Decline Continues and Could Remain in Q3

Boyd Group CEO Tim O’Day recently told investors a decline in repairable vehicles, increased use of alternative parts, in-house scanning and calibrations, and labor rate increases during Q2 added to sales and gross profit despite margins remaining below historical...

Scaling Electric Trucks: NACFE Reveals Key Findings on Cost, Infrastructure

While battery-electric commercial vehicles from vans to heavy-duty tractors are on the road today and perform well in many duty cycles, in order for the trucking industry to scale electric trucks in operations, there are areas that must be addressed, according to the...

Progressive to Pay $48M to New York Drivers Over Underpaid Total Loss Claims

Progressive Insurance has agreed to a $48 million settlement with a class of 93,000 New York policyholders who claim the insurer underpaid their total loss claims on their vehicles. The $48 million represents approximately 54% of the compensatory damages alleged by...

Ferrari Friday: Ferrari Races Into Esports

Looking ahead is part of the Ferrari DNA. So it was natural for Formula 1 most successful manufacturer to take up the challenge of the new F1 “virtual” championship and to do so in style. Ferrari entry into Esports aims to take the passion for Ferrari to the younger...

Thanksgiving vs. Christmas Deliveries Analyzed

Deliveries made the week of Christmas far outnumber those being made the week of Thanksgiving, even though this week marks the start of the holiday shopping season with Black Friday and leads into Cyber Monday, according to data from Verizon Connect. Truck and van...

Thanksgiving Holiday Road Travel Should Rise 2.8%

About 49.3 million people will hit the nation's roadways this Thanksgiving Day holiday as compared with 48.5 million in 2018, representing a 2.8% increase and the highest volume of travelers since 2005. The data comes from AAA in collaboration with INRIX, a global...

State Farm v Mabry: Diminished Value 18 Years Later

Last year we marked the 17th anniversary of the State Farm v Mabry case that gave the world of diminished value the 17c Formula with a blog post that described how the 17c Formula came to be and how it can be flawed. Well, another year has passed, so let's take a look...

Ferrari Friday: The Master and the Testarossa

Riccione, 1985. An American magazine calls Franco Fontana and commissions a photo feature on the Ferrari Testarossa. Franco Fontana, now eighty-five, is one of Italy’s most famous photographers. He was born in the Emilia-Romagna region and is generally considered a...

DCI Solution’s SEMA 2019 Recap

SEMA 2019 has come and gone, but what did we take away from it? The week of the show was a busy one for DCI Solution, as was the week after, full of follow-up meetings and calls with people from the show. As always, SEMA 2019 was a very exciting and well-attended...

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