Hamilton’s Coolants Plus expanding product line of auto fluids, from Journal News. HAMILTON — A company new to the city hopes to grow its own brand line of automotive lubricant and coolant products. Coolants Plus Inc. is an national wholesale di

Navigating The Information Highway for Vehicle Repair Help, from Motor Age. It’s much easier today to find answers to your tough diagnostic questions, but how do you know that answer is accurate?  If you came across a new troubleshooting or repair

Top 5 Revenue Boosters for Tire Sales, from OEConnection. It’s no secret.  Tire sales are a hot topic in the automotive industry these days.  Auto manufacturers and major dealer groups alike are launching aggressive programs to reclaim the $30.1

How Will Autonomous Vehicles Disrupt Fleet Management?, from Automotive Fleet. Publicly held corporations include risk factors in their annual reports that forecast potential market forces that may impact their business in the future. Recently, four

Top 5 Challenges of Field Service, from Core Systems. As anyone who runs a field service company knows, delivering superior customer service relies on keeping a number of processes running flawlessly, day in and day out. Recently, we’ve helped

Get into the online parts sales game with a parts e-Store, from OEC Blog. As a parts manager, you may feel perfectly at ease doing the level of parts sales you’re used to. Perhaps you feel your parts department couldn’t handle more business than

Say hello to the new auto shopper: the digital driver. With the rapid adoption of mobile devices and the increase in auto shoppers looking for information on the go, dealerships must adapt to these ever-changing trends. Your service department, in pa

The factory is here to help you – not do it for you! At the risk of repeating myself, and getting back on my soap box, one of the most common and infuriating mistakes I see too many Parts Managers making today is the over reliance on factory provid

There’s an old adage “If you aren’t the lead dog, the view never changes.” You gotta love that maxim. Of course any winner manager wants to be the lead dog, but getting there can be a difficult task when one approaches the challenges unaccomp