Save Your Customers Time and Provide a Much-Needed Revenue Stream For years in the automotive industry, the response to car battery troubles was largely reactionary. When vehicles broke down, customers would call a tow truck, tow their vehicle to a service shop, and the service shop would then test the... Read More +
With 4th Quarter Looming, Person-to-Person Contact Down, Positivity Up for Some As 2020 moves along, budgets tighten and operations change, SCL is seeing a major shift in the way our customers operate and the trends they’re experiencing in business. From automotive to construction, here are eight patterns in industries across... Read More +
Effective Through July 2021, Increase Marks 3rd Consecutive Year Hike Despite an economy hamstrung by coronavirus-related closures and 6 million unemployed Californians, new tax rates for gas announced by the State of California effective July 1 increased again another $0.032 per gallon, bringing the total per gallon tax to $0.505.... Read More +
4 Areas of Focus That Can Make All the Difference in a Season of Rebound More than just instituting social distancing practices and measures like solo test drives to abide by state coronavirus (COVID-19) guidelines, there’s still marked uncertainty for SCL partners in the automotive industry. Auto sales of all... Read More +
City, County Officials’ Push Includes In-Store Retail, a Win for Automotive In light of a recent announcement by Gov. Gavin Newsom that counties will be allowed to re-open businesses faster in Stage 2 under new criteria, San Diego County leaders presented their case to move at an accelerated rate and... Read More +
Sector-by-Sector Rundown Shows Employers Required to Provide Face Coverings, Disinfectants and Other Specifics by Industry As Gov. Gavin Newsom and state officials continue to roll out California’s Resilience Roadmap, businesses identified in stage 2 are now opening their doors – county by county – with adapted operations to account for... Read More +
Enhancing Communications, Connecting with Routine Services Will Be Key While uncertainty lingers about when and how restrictions surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will begin to ease, car dealerships and automotive shops should already be brainstorming ways to bring in customers. In California, as Gov. Gavin Newsom and local governments begin... Read More +
Decreased Restaurant Demand Leads to Reliance on Reefers as Outside Storage Amid national efforts to stop the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), restaurants nationwide have closed their doors to customers following state mandates urging residents to stay at home. Those restrictions have resulted in quite a conundrum for grocery distribution centers,... Read More +
In Response to State-Wide Coronavirus Shutdowns, SCL Customers Experience Mixed Results After Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a statewide shutdown of non-essential business in California in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, many SCL customers in industrial manufacturing found themselves unaffected due to longstanding military, aerospace and medical industry contracts.... Read More +
SCL Partners Report Little Disruption to Projects Currently Under Way In the days following a state mandate by California Gov. Gavin Newsom that non-essential businesses close in an effort to minimize impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19), SCL customers reported little disruption to construction projects. The Association of General Contractors of... Read More +
With Sales Down, Dealerships and Shops Reduce Staff, Expenses to Remain Open Although some SCL partners reported a spike in new car sales immediately following a move by the Federal Reserve slashing interest rates to nearly 0%, most in the industry are relying heavily on their service departments to carry... Read More +
SCL Shares Insight on What Partners in Trucking, Logistics are Saying, Experiencing In the face of new state-sponsored shelter-in-place mandates, increasing measures to keep people at home worldwide, and economic disruptions in nearly all industry sectors globally, businesses are grappling with how to stay open and afloat. The coronavirus (COVID-19)... Read More +
SCL Offers Perspective as Coronavirus Continues to Disrupt Business Operations The federal government has lowered interest rates, national sport leagues have suspended games, travel from Europe to the United States has halted, and businesses nationwide are trying to calm customers as fears surrounding the global spread of coronavirus (covid-19) build.... Read More +
Shipping Delays, Disruptions in Manufacturing and Logistics Already Being Felt As China and now several other countries continue to experience devastating health effects of the coronavirus, impact is also being felt among American businesses, including automotive, manufacturing and oil. As industries across the board experience shipment delays and disruptions in... Read More +
