ATRA is Breaking Ground on the new ATRA International Business Office, Research and Training Facility in China Grove, TX! Recently the ATRA Board of Directors...
June - 2023
The Mazda CX-5 KE and the Mazda6 GJ from 2012 are based on the same vehicle platform, and as a result, they share many of the same components, one of which is...
Ford’s 6F35N transmission is popular in Ford light to medium-duty front-wheel drive applications. They have logged several millions of miles and have proven...
The topic of engine crankshaft thrust bearing failure creeps up from time. I’ve written about it twice, once in 1998 and again in 2015. Unfortunately, these...
In this industry, it is very easy to overlook the simplest of things, and sometimes those things can come back to bite you. Such is the case with the hydraulic...
So, let’s talk about performance and what it means. First, what’s your objective? Are you racing the quarter mile? Or are you looking at something for the...
Every business runs by its numbers. The most common number shop owners track is, of course, profit. I once heard at a management program, “The most important...
This article is the last of a three-part series. We began by rethinking telephone procedures to match your shop’s unique needs. I explained how to convert...
Learning how to read charts and graphs is important. So much so that when I was preparing for the General Management Admissions Test (GMAT), the test makers...
As the great basketball coach Phil Jackson once said, “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” This...
