President Tommy Woodson presented an information packed meeting featuring sponsor Josette Furjanic of PassTime/Frazer.  She spoke about PassTime that allows dealers to locate vehicles when customers do not pay and Frazer software package that helps dealers keep the dealership accounting formatted for ease in retrieval of information that will help them track their current financial status.

Speaker Janet Garrett of the Motor Vehicle Dealer Board reported a few new interpretations of the dealer code that may impact dealers during future inspections.  A question/answer session followed the presentation giving dealers the opportunity to seek additional information in order to stay compliant.

Pete Iaricci of VIADA discussed the Red Flag Rule and the progress of dealer recertification.  He further reported of a recent district court case lost because the buyers order had two purchaser signatures at the bottom of the contract but only one signature on the AS IS statement.  DMV recently revised the permission to drive form without VIADA having input.  A meeting with the Commissioner and his staff resulted in an agreement to rework the form and reduce the size. 

Membership is still the life blood of the Association.  Your support is vital to us and for that we are grateful.  Members are asked to pass the word to nonmembers and encourage them to join hands to keep the voice of the independent dealers strong.