{"id":4248,"date":"2023-09-21T04:49:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T09:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/?p=4248"},"modified":"2023-09-22T12:09:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T17:09:02","slug":"dealers-meet-with-lawmakers-during-day-at-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/dealers-meet-with-lawmakers-during-day-at-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealers meet with lawmakers during Day at the Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dealers spent the final day of the NIADA Policy Conference meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, discussing the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s Vehicle Shopping Rule, Right to Repair and legislation to prevent catalytic converter thefts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dealers held more than 100 meetings with members of the Senate and House of Representatives around lunch at the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt was a great day. Everyone was very receptive, especially the representatives we talked to,\u201d said Scott Shook of Shook Auto in New Philadelphia, Ohio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Threadgill of Triple T Motors in Florence, S.C. added: \u201cMost were open to our suggestions, took the information we provided and offered to help and any way they could.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NIADA and dealers asked Congress to stop the proposed Vehicle Shopping Rule, which would add costs, more paperwork and extend the sales process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sale of a vehicle is already heavily regulated, with the many required documents as part of the process. The FTC \u201cVehicle Shopping Rule\u201d adds unnecessary costs, paperwork and time to the car-buying process. The Center for Automotive Research (CAR) found that the 10-year cost of the rule to consumers would exceed $38 billion and would add 2 hours per transaction. It also contradicts current laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A House Appropriations Committee has proposed legislation to stop the rule. Dealers are asking lawmakers to support the appropriations bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric Johnson, a partner at Hudson Cook, pointed out during the Day on the Hill training for dealers the rule was issued with 49 questions by the FTC.
\u201cIt\u2019s overkill and over disclosure,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThere\u2019s so many questions, and it needs to be shelved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NIADA and dealers pushed for lawmakers to support the \u201cPreventing Auto Recycling Theft Act,\u201d which would assist law enforcement in their efforts to combat catalytic converter theft by marking catalytic converters and creating a more transparent market that deters its theft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rise in catalytic converters thefts are costing businesses and individuals millions of dollars each year. The National Insurance Crime Bureau estimates that these thefts increased by 1,215 percent between 2019 and 2022. The association also urged Congress to move forward with the REPAIR Act, which would give vehicle owners and their designee access to diagnostics, repair, calibration and service for their vehicles to allow work to be completed by more repair providers, thereby reducing consumers\u2019 costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cost for consumers to repair their vehicles has grown by more than 66 percent since 2000, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. More competition is required to reduce consumers\u2019 costs as provided by the REPAIR Act and SMART Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Day on the Hill closed the two-day Policy Conference, which also included sessions with the FTC, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was great to see the process. It\u2019s extremely important for our regulators and policymakers to hear from us. They need information to make decisions,\u201d said Matt Nibarger of Prime Auto USA in Jackson, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dealers spent the final day of the NIADA Policy Conference meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, discussing the…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-independent","8":"category-industry","9":"cs-entry","10":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}