ALL SPORTS HAVE LEGENDS. In baseball, we have players like Babe Ruth, Reggie Jackson, and Mickey Mantle. Football has Joe Montana, Payton Manning, Kurt Warner, and that one guy that played for the NE Patriots and then went to play for[...]

THE VISION HI-TECH TRAINING & EXPO first opened its doors in 1992 with around 250 attendees and around 35 exhibitors, who set up their spaces in the parking garage of the Hilton Inn. Dragsters were used to fill unused exhibit space. Now look to[...]

“He’s unrelenting and what he’ll give—it’s unending. He will drop everything he is doing to help a peer, a competitor,” Chris Chesney, vice president of training and organizational development for Reparify, says of the owner[...]

Why is the concept of work-life balance so important to owners looking to grow their success? Well, I believe that there really is no work-life balance. Some days you’re overly balanced on one side, and then other days you’re tilting more to the[...]

CRAIG O’NEILL AND I RECENTLY HELD A CLASS at the 2022 VISION Conference on managing change in your auto repair shop. Change is a topic that few people want to dig into but an important one, as we need to be considering change at all[...]

My class had over 200 students, and the positive feedback was amazing, and I was so grateful for the opportunity to share with so many incredible professionals. My name is Greg Bunch, I own six shops in[...]

New shop owners as well as those looking to grow their businesses face having to decide where to focus their advertising dollars. And yet, diving deeper into what’s exactly meant by “word of mouth” will get you a whole mess of different responses. Some[...]

WE CAN ALL AGREE THE WORLD WE LIVE IN POST-2020 is a little different to navigate than before. Several things have changed, some for the better, some questionable. One thing that did not recover was the workforce. No, this is not[...]

MWACA and the Auto Care Alliance are pleased to announce a new benefit program, ShopCare, an EAP Program designed to support automotive service industry professionals and their families. ShopCare is open to ACA Shop Members and Allied Members[...]

ANDREW SEXTON, OWNER OF ATS AUTOMOTIVE IN CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, discovered his passion for working on cars through his dad. When Sexton was a kid, his dad was always down in their garage[...]

WITH THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE INDUSTRY CONTINUING TO GROW, many shops are trying to decide when the best time to invest in
EV training. The time and money needed for proper training and equipment without the guarantee of a quick[...]

VISION Hi-Tech Training Expo is returning in March. MWACA Magazine sat down with Sheri Hamilton, Executive Director of MWACA, to discover how VISION 2023 will stand apart from past conferences and from other[...]