by ARA | Jul 1, 2026 | Motivational, Workforce
By Ryan Paterson About a year ago, Tom Klauer pulled me into the auto recycling industry. I came in with a career spent around technology and operations, but not with a lifetime of experience buying vehicles, running self-service recycling facilities, or understanding...
by ARA | Jul 1, 2026 | Workforce
By Lisa Ryan, CSP Walk through almost any automotive recycling facility and you’ll eventually hear some version of the same sentence: “Go ask Dave.” Dave knows which vehicles consistently hide damaged components that don’t show up until labor’s already been invested....
by Dietrich V | May 1, 2026 | Motivational, Workforce
By Carlos Barboza “Retirement is not the end of the road. It is the beginning of the open highway.” — Unknown When most people think of retirement, they imagine stopping work completely at 65, living off savings, and perhaps...
by ARA | Mar 1, 2026 | Industry, Motivational, Workforce
By Carlos Barboza He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” —Friedrich Nietzsche In business and in life, safety nets are comforting. We love the idea of having a backup plan, a Plan B that we can lean on if things get hard. Yet history shows that some of the...
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...
