Tag: collision repair data

Collision Repair

A Year in Review: Recent Crash Course report highlights top trends impacting the automotive and collision repair industry throughout 2024

Toronto, Ontario — Crash Course has now released its fourth-quarter report, “A Year of Shifting Gears: how the Auto Claims and Repair Industry Adapted to Economic Strain and Evolving Technology,” that highlights the top trends that impacted the automotive and collision repair industry throughout 2024. According to the report, which further aims to provide industry […]

December 20, 2024

Training

Surveying Satisfaction: 74 percent of technicians satisfied with career says recent Ducker and Carlisle survey

Toronto, Ontario — According to a recent survey, shop culture, management and overall team environment have a significant impact on technician career satisfaction and longevity. The survey—which compiled 2023 data provided by I-CAR, the Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) and made available through Ducker and Carlisle—questioned over 800 respondents from across the United States […]

March 1, 2024

Technology

Private Eye: IGEN patents algorithm to monitor driver behaviour, privacy concerns raised

California, United States – IGEN Networks Corporation has patented a “Real-Time Driver Telematic Signatures,” a system to gather data and rate the driving patterns of piloted and autonomous vehicles. Registered with the United States Patent Office as patent number 17/850,258, IGEN promises to “expand the dataset of ‘Big Data’ to include…weather conditions, population density and […]

September 12, 2022

Collision Repair

Crash Test City: Montreal’s most collision-prone boroughs found downtown

Montreal, Quebec – Whether you speak English, French or another language, almost every driver has stories of close calls with more reckless road users. In the case of urban areas, reckless driving can quickly translate into fatalities. Unlike Toronto and Vancouver where collisions are most common at connectors to adjacent cities, collisions in Montreal generally […]

August 4, 2022

Collision Repair

Crash Test City: West Humber-Clairville tops Toronto’s most crash-prone neighbourhoods

Toronto, Ontario – To the surprise of no one who’s visited Toronto’s downtown, accidents are bound to happen when drivers congregate. Whether for work, a hockey match or the weekend rush, some of us will inevitably collide thanks to a hot-headed driver or some other mishap. While 2020 data is an outlier due to the […]

July 28, 2022

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AutoHouse Technologies 2021 Canadian Benchmark Report: Sales and Gross Profit Trends

Vancouver, British Columbia ⁠— AutoHouse Technologies has released its 2021 Canadian Benchmark Report for the collision repair industry, detailing sales, gross profit trends, cycle times and touch times for the Canadian autobody sector last year. Today, we take a closer look at some of the big takeaways from the report’s look at sales and gross […]

March 24, 2022