At the CAWA June Leadership meeting, Dan Hanson, Jr. of the Hanson Distributing Company was elected the 2023 Secretary to the Board of Directors. Other officers for the 2023 year will be: Chair Young Suhr, Jr. of APW-Knox Seeman Warehouse; Vice-Chair Tom Ogaz of the Parts Authority; Treasurer Wayne Schaack of the Pronto Network and Immediate Past Chair Michael Rukov of IMR, Inc.

Mr. Hanson’s primary day-to-day responsibilities at Hanson Distributing Company are to oversee the sales and marketing, operations, and product and pricing for Hanson’s company-owned store division HMC Auto Parts. In addition, his portfolio includes company-wide new product additions, selection, and scouting to ensure that the Company is able to provide the right parts to meet the present and emerging needs of the professional technician, automotive enthusiast, and independent jobber in the 21st Century marketplace. He also has a keen interest in application specific automotive lubricants and chemicals. Dan also serves on the Hanson Distributing Company Board of Directors and is its corporate Secretary.

“It’s a high honor to be nominated to serve the aftermarket again on the CAWA, as Secretary to the Board of Directors, and I greatly appreciate that my peers and colleagues on the Board had confidence in me to do so for a second time. CAWA and its mission is very dear to me and I’m looking forward to the task ahead. I believe our future is a bright one,” said Mr. Hanson upon his election.

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TechForce is happy to share our 2021 Annual Report, highlighting how your generous support helped to champion students to and through their education and into careers as professional technicians. Together, we were able to:

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“With recent events, current environment, known and unknown future challenges to the Automotive Parts Industry, business is not getting easier. To successfully navigate today’s terrain, we need assistance and information, which are two words that define CAWA. Whether it’s acting in our industries behalf to stop harmful governmental regulations or advocating beneficial ones, funding industry scholarships for the next Automotive Parts generation, offering insight into supply chain and global conditions, guidance with legal issues, or educational assistance, CAWA covers it and more. Do yourself and your company a favor, spend 10 minutes reviewing www.cawa.org to see how a CAWA membership can help you”.

~ Tom Ogaz, Parts Authority

California’s supply chain stands at the precipice. On June 30, 2022, the Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari in California Trucking Association v. Bonta, which means the future of California’s nearly 70,000 independent truckers are now in doubt. Independent truckers service all parts of California’s economy, including but not limited to, providing seasonal capacity to support agricultural harvests, specialized construction equipment and aggregate hauling, transportation of refrigerated food commodities, port and intermodal rail delivery, home deliveries and all points in between. See complete letter to the Governor, here.

Contact CAWA’s legislative advocate in California, Gary Conover at 916.233.9655 or gary@garyconover.com with questions.

I belong to a workout group called Battle Ready. Basically, it’s everything you want to know about working out, weight management, etc. It’s run by Erin Alejandrino. We have a couple of group calls every week, and a recent one: ‘Why Your Results Suck’, tied into sales. The first five reasons for bad results in workouts, weight goals, and overall health, were also the same reasons that most salespeople’s sales results are bad. Here are the five reasons (click here). Source: John Chapin

Today, drones have entered everyday conversation, not just as popular gifts for the holidays but as an alternative mode of transport for last mile logistics. The key to a good delivery experience lies in the last mile, the costliest and most complex leg of the entire supply chain which, by some estimates, makes up 53% of the total cost of delivery. With traffic congestion costing billions in productivity and gumming up delivery routes, driver shortages across the globe and growing concern among consumers for eco-friendly deliveries, the last mile has become even more arduous. Enter the drone. Drones can zip over traffic, don’t require drivers and emit zero fossil fuels. Moreover, drones can deliver parcels 20 times faster than ground-based transportation, according to Vikram Singh, CEO of TechEagle. See the complete article here. Source: Supply & Demand Executive

Attendee registration is now open for AAPEX 2022, the premier event where the more than $1.6 trillion global automotive aftermarket industry gathers to conduct business, see new products and technology, build supplier relationships and participate in hands-on training. To register, click here.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law what is arguably the nation’s most sweeping and comprehensive plastic pollution bill. Ambitious in scope and years in the making, the legislation will reduce single-use plastics and packaging across the state by focusing on reducing source production. It calls for a 25% reduction in single-use plastics by 2032, as well as a 65% recycling rate for all plastic items sold, distributed or imported into the state by that year. See more here. Source: Los Angeles Times

Cal/OSHA is reminding all employers to protect outdoor workers from heat illness as excessive heat watches have been issued throughout California. The temperature is forecast to exceed 100 degrees in many parts of the state next week. The following locations can expect temperatures near or over 100 degrees on Monday: The Central Valley, including a forecast in Redding of 110 degrees, and Imperial County is expected to hit 115 degrees. Employers in California must take steps to protect outdoor workers from heat illness by providing water, rest, shade and training. Cal/OSHA’s heat illness prevention standard applies to all outdoor worksites. To prevent heat illness, the law requires employers to provide outdoor workers fresh water, access to shade at 80 degrees and whenever requested by a worker, cool-down rest breaks in addition to regular breaks and maintain a written prevention plan with training on the signs of heat illness and what to do in case of an emergency. See more details here. Source: California Department of Industrial Relations

Older Americans are selling their businesses, and younger ones interested in growing their own can buy them — but both sides should work to avoid major pitfalls in the transactions, experts say. While 2022 might not be the banner year for merger and acquisition activity that 2021 was, it is still an active market for buying and selling businesses, according to a report by PwC. And retiring baby boomer business owners will end up selling or bequeathing about $10 trillion in assets over the next 20 years across 12 million privately held businesses, according to the California Association of Business Brokers — and about 70% of those are expected to change hands. For Sly Buford, those factors create opportunities for buyers and sellers alike. Buford, the founder of the Tenth Street Group, which works with businesses to grow, scale and exit, said owners can take advantage of this generational transfer to start or grow their own business. For buying and selling tips, see complete article here. Source: Sacramento Business Journal

On July 1 of this year is a required increase in minimum wage rates for Nevada employees. Nevada has a two-tier wage system that was implemented in 2006 by the Minimum Wage Amendment to the Nevada Constitution which allows for a $1.00 difference in wages depending on qualified health benefits offered by employers. Currently, the minimum wage requirement is $8.75 per hour for employers offering health benefits, while the requirement is $9.75 for employers not offering these same benefits. This is set to increase to $9.50 and $10.50, respectively, on the first of the month and every July thereafter by an increment of $0.75 until 2024, as outlined in Assembly Bill 456 which was first implemented in 2019. For more information on Assembly Bill 456, please see here. Source: MOBO Law

What Do We Recommend? Our work indicates overall transportation cost inflation is likely near its peak and will likely begin to decline over the next 3-6 months primarily due to normalizing / slowing demand. The largest and most immediate opportunities for cost declines appear to be in trucking (ex-fuel) and airfreight in 2H22. Ocean costs appear to be stabilizing, with meaningful cost savings likely to be more of a 2023 opportunity. See key points and more detail here. Source: Cleveland Research Company

The automotive industry has rallied in 2021, growing year over year despite the COVID-challenged economy. Now automotive businesses can enhance their health plan benefits for their valued employees with the CAWA Arizona Health Trust (CAWA) Association Health Plan through Blue Cross® Blue Shield® of Arizona (BCBSAZ). For more details, click here. You could be saving your company many insurance premium dollars! Another member benefit.

See the enclosed informational piece (here) from our California based partner, Armstrong & Associates. Contact Glen Dailey at 800.632.2777 or gdailey@Armstrongprofessional.com.