Automotive Repair Shop Management Forum

Professional automotive forum for discussion of repair shop management, covered from all angles, including: managerial discussions, employee relations, training, shop advertising and marketing ideas, streamlining of the shop environment, legal issues related to owning and managing a repair shop, and more. Although this forum is heaviest with participation of shop owners and managers, you also gain insight from members with other backgrounds (technicians, government employees, marketing representatives, educators, and more). This forum is for experienced automotive repair professionals only, membership required.

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	Head hunters/ Technician Find 04/21/2025 in the Shop Management Forum Hello, I have been blessed to have had a good and true Master tech that I have had the pleasure to have on board for the last 12 years. Unfortunately his health issues have escalated to the point that he can no longer work. I am considering hiring one of ...
	Business trends survey 04/07/2025 in the Shop Management Forum How many get this survey and how often do you get it? It seems to me that I get this survey every 3 months and have grown extremely tired of it. I am beginning to feel like the I'm being picked on. I wish they would leave me alone.
	Shop storage (NOT bay) value per square foot 03/27/2025 in the Shop Management Forum I still know hot to calculate the value of a bay and a lift, but can anyone give me a general rule of thumb for demonstrating to a friend how financially wasteful it is to store unneeded / unused equipment and junk / cores, etc.? I think the only way I mi...
	Charging For Forced Regens 03/08/2025 in the Shop Management Forum Wondering what other truck shops are doing for these. For instance Mack MP7 sometimes you need to run the crystallization regen and 3-4 push button regens to get the soot load to reset. Do you charge by the hour? or straight fee each regen? have had truck...
	How will you monitor and charge with new tariffs 03/05/2025 in the Shop Management Forum How will you address the tariffs? My wife does tech support for a point of sale software company in lumber and grocery stores even a few big wrecking yards and steel mills. Yesterday almost all of her teams support questions were businesses raising prices...

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