The 2017 car can be repaired without regulation today but planes (and the dog) need licensed technicians signing off on repairs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGovernment regulation is very hard to apply to a very large number of independent facilities as enforcement would be unworkable. Large suppliers could be mandated to provide very thorough reporting and auditing on their repairs and operations and they could afford to do this. A compliance office overseeing 500 locations would be a manageable cost per location while the compliance burden could well be the final straw for an independent.<\/p>\n
The consolidators that Brad describes are probably already in the concept planning stages of their Compliance Departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Over the last few weeks I saw an article and a symposium announcement that together showed a possible path to the future. In this Collision Repair magazine article from mid July;\u00a0Brad Mewes\u2019 views on the current stage of industry consolidation are discussed and explained with extensive use of quotations. The research and business analysis he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rfina.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rfina.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rfina.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rfina.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rfina.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rfina.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rfina.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rfina.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rfina.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}