Why Winter Won’t Help.

January 28, 2004 by John Shortell · 1 Comment
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All over the eastern half of the United States snow storms are causing thousands of automobile accidents. And all over the eastern half of the United States collision repair shops are filling up with the wrecks. Rental companies are running out of cars, shop managers are getting stressed out, their techs are working too many hours and customers are screaming that they want their cars back.
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Discussing Database Differences

January 12, 2004 by John Shortell · 7 Comments
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Isn?t it amazing that no matter what you write for an estimate the insurance appraiser can find a way to cut the price? You could write 6 hours for an 8 hour dent and the appraiser will write 5 hours and then tell you what a hero he is for ?giving? you the five hours. And it always seems their software comes up with fewer hours for the same operations. How can this happen? Are there body shops pressuring the database providers to lower the flat rate times because they feel guilty that they are actually squeezing out a profit? We can?t have that.
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