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Gary Ledoux
Gary Ledoux is a freelance writer with 48 years in the automotive industry.
He can be reached at mayorclum@yahoo.com
Gary Ledoux
After a car collision occurs, one must figure out how to get their car repaired, arrange alternative transportation and so on.
Truck Topics: Truck ADAS Systems – the Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Written by Gary Ledoux
Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), a computer-aided means of keeping a vehicle in its lane and preventing or mitigating collisions, is a relatively new concept in the automotive world and even newer for the trucking world.
As I-CAR celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, we thought it only fitting to provide some insight into the organization’s natal beginnings.
People have been repairing collision-damaged trucks since August Fruehauf stuck a trailer behind a Ford Model T in 1914 to create the first semi-trailer rig.
Truck Topics: Truck Vs. Auto Collision Repair – An Overview
Written by Gary Ledoux
Truck Topics is a new series of articles seen periodically in Autobody News that is dedicated to the collision side of the heavy duty truck market.
We see them all the time---semi trucks, trailers, buses, RVs, dump trucks and other pieces of heavy equipment wrecked in what had to be a horrendous crash.
In Reverse: The 1970s - Part 1 - The Collision Industry Starts to Mature
Written by Gary Ledoux
If the 1940s and 1950s marked the industry’s earliest “modern” beginnings and the 1960s signified the industry’s “grammar school” years, the 1970s could be seen as its teenage years.
In Reverse: Vehicle Safety Equipment Through the Years
Written by Gary Ledoux
By the mid-1950s, more than a million Americans had been in car accidents and died on the nation’s roads and highways.
In Reverse: The 1960s – The Collision Repair Industry Gets a Voice
Written by Gary Ledoux
Each month, collision industry trade magazines provide readers with a glimpse of the industry at that point in time.
In the 1960s, the concept of a direct repair program took several twists and turns before it got to the model we recognize today. Here are a few variations of that theme.
In Reverse: The 1960s – Associations, Leaders and Poor Management
Written by Gary Ledoux
Anyone who lived through the 1960s knows what a turbulent time it was politically, socially and culturally. There were some profound changes in the collision repair trade as well.
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How Safe Is a Collision-Repaired Police Vehicle?
Written by Gary Ledoux
We’ve all seen them on television shows, movies and of course in real life---police cruisers all smashed-up, usually as a result of an accident, sometimes sustaining collateral damage when forcing a “bad-guy” off the road, sometimes damaged at the end of a high-speed chase.
It was the mid-1940s. GIs were home from the war, the U.S. economy was booming and shiny new cars were filling America’s highways---cars that needed gasoline and service work.
Collision Safety Consultants Poised for a Great Future
Written by Gary Ledoux
Recently, Collision Safety Consultants (CSC), based in Belmont, NC, announced the opening of eight new locations.