ARA and OATRA Decry the Cynical Attempts to Diminish the Role of Ohio Automotive Recyclers
CONTACT: Betsy Beckwith FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(571) 208-0428 Date: May 16, 2012
ARA and OATRA Decry the Cynical Attempts by the Insurance Industry to Diminish the Role of Ohio Automotive Recyclers
Family-Owned Recycling Businesses Providing Thousands of Jobs are Under Direct Attack by Proponents of a Misguided Ohio Bill That Would Open Up Salvage Pools and Auctions
The Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA) and the Ohio Auto and Truck Recyclers Association (OATRA) today decried the cynical attempts by lobbyists for the insurance industry to diminish the vital role played by local Ohio automotive recycling companies. The two organizations, on behalf of the 794 licensed automotive recyclers in Ohio and the thousands of men and women they employ, are outraged at the brazen attacks that occurred yesterday upon small businesses that help make up the backbone of today’s economy in Ohio, which has been hard hit by the economic downturn in America.
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2012 Legislative Summit
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July 16 - 17
Embassy Suites Nashville - Airport
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10 Century Blvd.
Nashville, TN 37214-3675
(615) 871-0033
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Friday, June 15, 2012Read all of 2012 Legislative Summit
ARAU Announces 15 New Safety Courses
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CONTACT: Ginny Whelan FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(609) 451-0760 Date: April 9, 2012
The Automotive Recyclers Association University (ARAU) urges members to log onto ARAU today to access the 15 new safety courses offered to educate automotive recyclers on how to continue to ensure a safe and healthy working environment at their facilities. These courses advance state of the art practices and directly respond to recent reports from the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) highlighting the top ten commonly cited violations of OSHA standards in 2011 at automotive recycling facilities. After you have taken these courses your facility will be better educated on how to avoid OSHA citations on the following standards:
- 1926.451 – Scaffolding
- 1926.501 – Fall Protection
- 1910.1200 – Hazard Communication
- 1910.134 – Respiratory Protection
- 1910.147 – Lockout/Tagout
- 1910.305 – Electrical, Wiring Methods
- 1910.178 – Powered Industrial Trucks
- 1926.1053 – Ladders
- 1910.303 – Electrical, General Requirements
- 1910.212 – Machine Guarding
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The Automotive Recyclers Association Applauds Recent State Efforts to Prevent Untrained and Unlicensed Individuals From Purchasing Cars at Salvage Pools and Urges Ohio to Follow Suit
CONTACT: Caryn Smith FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(571) 208-0428 Date: March 19, 2012
The Automotive Recyclers Association Applauds Recent State Efforts to Prevent Untrained and Unlicensed Individuals From Purchasing Cars at Salvage Pools and Urges Ohio to Follow Suit
Manassas, VA. - The Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA) recognizes the efforts of legislators in Florida and Utah who have made significant steps to protect consumers and the environment by preventing untrained and unlicensed individuals from buying cars at salvage pools and urges Ohio legislators to do the same.
ARA is the leading international trade association of professional automotive recyclers. ARA represents 4,500 automotive recycling facilities in the United States and fourteen other countries around the world. We proudly represent an industry dedicated to the environmentally efficient removal and reuse of automotive parts and the recycling of inoperable motor vehicles.
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ARA Affirms FTC Recognition of "Recycled" Claims
CONTACT: Caryn Smith FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(571) 208-0428 Date: February 3, 2012
ARA Affirms FTC Recognition of “Recycled” Claims
The Automotive Recyclers Association ("ARA") urges those in the collision repair industry who question the use of the term "recycled" to describe the commerce of used parts to review more closely the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's ("FTC") ruling of May 1, 1998 on this issue. Specifically, ARA's concerns are prompted by recent press accounts that allege that the use of the term "'recycled" to describe used auto parts is misleading. In 1998, the FTC in their Environmental Marketing Guides ("Green Guides") took into account consumer perceptions and determined that "recycled" is acceptable in promoting used automotive parts utilization. The revisions, published in the Federal Register on May, 1, 1998, state that with regard to the used automotive parts market that the "unqualified use of the word 'recycled'" is not deceptive.
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DOJ Issues Penalty Guidelines for Failing to Report Salvage Vehicles
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) has posted the final schedule of considerations the BJA will use when determining the amount of fines it will levy on parties that fail to report salvage vehicles to the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS).
Failure to report to NMVTIS is punishable by a civil penalty of $1,000 per violation. Therefore, a failure to report 100 junk or salvage automobiles could result in a civil fine of up to $100,000.
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Automotive Recyclers Association Urges Collision Repair Stakeholders to Recognize the Genuine Value, Safety and Benefits of All Repair Part Options
CONTACT: Caryn Smith FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(571) 208-0428 Date: January 11, 2012
Automotive Recyclers Association Urges Collision Repair Stakeholders to Recognize the Genuine Value, Safety and Benefits of All Repair Part Options
The Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a statement calling on all stakeholders involved in the collision repair marketplace to recognize the genuine value, safety and benefits that each repair part option (recycled, new, aftermarket, remanufactured) may provide in a given repair. To help address unfair market disincentives for the sale of some types of parts versus others in the $53.4 billion parts segment of the collision repair industry, ARA encourages adoption of an unbiased compensation structure to remedy the current system that provides the largest financial rewards to collision repair shops only when they utilize the most expensive replacement part option in repairs.
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The Automotive Recyclers Association Urges West Virginia Attorney General to Correct The Record
CONTACT: Caryn Smith FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(571) 208-0428 Date: January 4, 2012
The Automotive Recyclers Association Urges West Virginia Attorney General to Correct the Record
Manassas, VA. This week, the Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA) sent a formal letter of complaint to West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw urging him to refrain from using the derogatory and misleading term "junkyard parts" when referring to recycled/salvaged automobile parts.
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FIRST Robotics Competition
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FIRST® Robotics Competition
The Automotive Recyclers Association Educational Foundation (ARAEF) needs your help! On the behalf of ARA Members, we have partnered with the FIRST® Robotics Competition to provide small motor parts to their competition teams.
As a part of this partnership, ARAEF is asking that ARA members who are contacted by FIRST® teams in their area to donate four to six small motors to the team build their project.
This opportunity provides the Automotive Recycling community a chance to promote the industry to the next generation on engineers, and gain national attention in the process for the industry. This effort goes in hand with ARA’s increased efforts to educate the public about automotive recycling and green recycled parts.
This is a win-win for ARA and FIRST® in that ARA Members can directly impact the teams to enlighten them about automotive recycling, and the FIRST® has a reliable donation source for their program.
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ARA Warns Collision Repair Industry on Proscriptive Automaker Repair Policies
CONTACT: Caryn Smith FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(571) 208-0428 Date: December 13, 2011
ARA Warns Collision Repair Industry on Proscriptive Automaker Repair Policies
Manassas, VA – The Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA) urges the collision repair industry to ensure that any official, industry-sanctioned "repair standards" for collision repair include all recognized procedures - not just those of the original equipment manufacturers. Standards promoted by other organizations such as the Inter Industry Conference on Auto Collision Repair (I-CAR) also need to be recognized. Given that there is no such thing as a "standard" accident, the ARA believes collision repairers must be allowed to use their professional training and judgement to make repair decisions based on the individual circumstances surrounding the damaged vehicles rather than be forced to adopt a single solution and approach.
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