by Dietrich V | May 1, 2026 | ARA Leadership, Industry
By Shannon Nordstrom • ARA President Thank you to the members of ARA for your commitment to supporting our team’s efforts to protect, promote, and lead the industry on your behalf, the professional automotive recyclers. We have members at all stages of their business...
by Dietrich V | May 1, 2026 | Industry, Trending
How Tomorrow’s Manufacturing Will Reshape the Cars You’ll See in the Yard The way a car is built determines how it is dismantled, what its parts are worth, and whether those materials can find a second life. As the assembly line reinvents itself—and as the...
by Dietrich V | May 1, 2026 | Business
How auto recyclers can plan, train, and transfer leadership—without splitting the family. Based on an ARA University training module. Most family-owned auto recycling businesses don’t fail because the parts stop selling or the cars stop coming in. They fail...
by Dietrich V | Mar 1, 2026 | ARA Leadership, Motivational, Workforce
By Andy Latham At the ARA Convention 2025, I had the privilege of delivering a presentation titled Shaping the Future of Our Industry – Developing the Leader Within You 2.0. My goal wasn’t simply to share leadership theory. It was to challenge every one of us to think...
by Dietrich V | Mar 1, 2026 | Training & Education, Workforce
By Lisa Ryan, CSP The new guy is sorting parts again, and he’s doing it wrong. Not catastrophically wrong, but wrong enough that everything’s running slower than it should. Starters are getting mixed up with alternators. Cores are tagged incorrectly. Those subtle...
