With the approaching Fraud Forum at the Used Car Industry Summit focused on the subject, an insurance operation has now developed a tool to help dealers protect themselves during vehicle transportation. Risk Theory, a platform of insurance distribution businesses, announced the launch of Dealer Transit, a new logistics solution designed to help dealerships mitigate the […] [Read More]

Next up on our Auto Remarketing Podcast series with the inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honorees is America’s Group CEO Chuck Tapp. In this episode, we revisit Tapp’s fireside chat with Cherokee Media Group president Bill Zadeits at Used Car Week 2025. They talk about Tapp’s career in the wholesale market and what might be […] [Read More]

Kicking off our Auto Remarketing Podcast episodes with the inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honorees is a conversation with Grace Huang, president of Cox Automotive Inventory Solutions. Huang talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about her journey from business consultant to wholesale auto industry leader, how being a “harmonizer” impacts her approach […] [Read More]

Fraud in auto transport hides in the daily commotion of logistics, often masked as a delayed delivery, a last-minute reroute, or a carrier who suddenly goes quiet. By the time suspicions surface, the damage may already be done. Because brokers mediate every shipment, they’re often the first to sense when something’s gone wrong, and the […] [Read More]

Independent Auction Group executive director Dave Blake was named the winner of the Award for Industry Excellence as Cox Automotive presented its 17th annual Independent Auction Awards at an awards dinner in conjunction with the Automotive Remarketing Alliance’s and National Auto Auction Association’s 2026 Spring Remarketing Exchange in Dallas. Blake was honored as “a respected […] [Read More]

No doubt, plenty of fraudulent activity is happening in automotive nowadays. Exposure is likely to surpass $10 billion this year, according to estimates from Point Predictive. For example, fraudsters are generating invalid employment and income documents, or they’re creating synthetic IDs to be granted credit. But fraudsters are now increasingly targeting the vehicles themselves and […] [Read More]

The growth that spurred the best year for auction sales since 2019 hasn’t taken a break. Thanks to another lift in commercial sales, overall wholesale vehicle sales at auction improved again last month. And that includes a big bump in off-rental vehicles hitting the market. According to the latest AuctionNet data from the National Auto […] [Read More]