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Health benefits are among the biggest expenses for new car dealers. NJ CAR has worked with its partners (Corporate Synergies Group, HUB International, and WithumSmith+Brown) to conduct an annual health benefits survey to provide dealers with useful data to gauge how their benefits measure up against the rest of...

Recognized For Community Service & Industry Accomplishments Rob Sickel, a third-generation Dealer Principal and owner of four Pine Belt stores in Lakewood, NJ, was named one of only four national finalists for the 2022 TIME Dealer of the Year award, one of the industry’s most prestigious honors, recognizing...

Wayne Hileman, President and Chief Operating Officer of Burlington Automotive was recently named Honorary Commander of Army Support Activity Dix at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. According to Col. Wes Adams, Commander of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, the Honorary Commander must be an individual...

On March 17, 2022, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 963, also called the “Fair Arbitration In-justice Repeal Act of 2022” or the “Fair Act of 2022”.  A similar bill (S.505) was introduced in the U.S. Senate and currently sits in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill prohibits pre-dispute...

NJ CAR has received questions from dealerships regarding when salespersons can accompany customers on test drives and what precautions the dealership should take when they accompany the customer in the vehicle.  At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the State required that test drives only be conducted by the...

Recently, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) investigated an incident in Camden, New Jersey where a worker’s hand was crushed by a vehicle lift.  The investigation found that the operator of an automobile dismantling company failed to have proper safeguards in place to protect employees from an accidental...