Copart recently announced the winners of its second annual Copart Rebuild Challenge, whose participants were tasked with showing how they restored, customized or rebuilt a vehicle. Automotive enthusiasts and rebuilders from across the country submitted their rebuild projects, aiming for the $2,000 grand prize. After narrowing down the submissions to the top 10, thousands of […] [Read More]

Insurance Auto Auctions announced on Monday that Tim O’Day will join the KAR Auction Services business unit as senior vice president of finance reporting to John Kett, chief executive officer and president.   With almost 30 years of experience in finance, operations and general management, IAA highlighted O’Day has a combination of big-company, start-up and high-growth […] [Read More]

Today, Element Financial Corp. will finalize its long-anticipated acquisition of GE Capital’s U.S.-based fleet management operations. According to William Cieslak, Element Fleet Management’s vice president of vehicle remarketing, all portions of GE Capital Fleet Services in the United States will transition from the GE brand immediately. Element had previously announced in June that it and GE Capital had […] [Read More]

Manheim Riverside celebrated the opening of its two new facilities in Riverside, Calif. on Thursday. The new facilities include its indoor Vehicle Inspection Facility and the Kelley Blue Book Resource Center, adding to its already significant 89,000-square-foot Manheim California Service Center, which opened in 2013. The celebration on Thursday morning included local community members and […] [Read More]

It is late summer 1995 in New York City — one year before its Yankees reignited their baseball dynasty and won their first of four World Series in five years, one year after its Rangers reached hockey’s mountaintop and its Knicks got oh-so-close in basketball. And meeting in the singles finals of the U.S Open tennis […] [Read More]

When Patsy Staub drove by Manheim Pennsylvania auction 28 years ago, she wasn’t sure exactly what went on all day at the mammoth facility that stretches for acres upon acres of Lancaster County. “And then I saw a job advertisement, and I thought, ‘Oh, I’ll go in and check it out,’” Staub said. “If anybody had […] [Read More]

The exercise seemed simple enough. Or so I thought. Fill out a condition report on one of the vehicles sitting in the auction arena just outside the classroom at ADESA Charlotte. While the actual attendees of NAAA's Auction Standards Training class went right to work, knowing exactly where to go as they furiously filled in boxes […] [Read More]

With their values down 10.5 percent, entry-level cars have shown the most depreciation of any segment since the beginning of May, according to Black Book. And last week, that downhill movement only continued. So, given how the supply of off-lease and rental cars is ramping up at auctions — which could potentially drive these prices […] [Read More]

FLD Inc. announced that it has named a new sales director. The company has appointed Mike Agnew as its national heavy-duty sales director. Bringing over two decades of experience to the position, Agnew will work as a wholesale heavy duty truck buyer, leveraging his experience from past experience working with OEMs, Kenworth, Peterbilt, Freightliner and Heavy […] [Read More]

The National Auto Auction Association Convention is just weeks away, and Auto Remarketing is celebrating the annual event and the auction industry with our yearly NAAA Convention issue. One of the special sections in that magazine (our Sept. 15 edition) is the annual “Auction Life” photo spread, where we invite NAAA-member auctions to submit photos […] [Read More]