After sharing top-line metrics from last week — wholesale values falling another 0.49%, auction conversion rates ticking up to 56%, and the estimated used retail days to turn staying at roughly 36 days — Black Book got into a discussion about 2023, 2024 and 2025 models. Black Book began this portion of Market Insights by […] [Read More]

Between rising customer expectations, tighter margins, and increased exposure to digital risk, today’s logistics leaders face growing pressure to deliver faster, smarter, and safer outcomes. The challenge isn’t just about keeping up; it’s staying ahead in a complex supply chain environment. While carriers and shippers are inundated with different software solutions, many of these platforms […] [Read More]

To the average consumer, CarMax is best known as a used-car retailer. But for the last three decades, the company also has had a thriving wholesale operation — and it’s one that has proven mutually beneficial for the retail side of the business, opened unique data sets and created avenues for business opportunities with traditional […] [Read More]

Black Book is working with a vehicle upfitter to put a number on the value of its modified products. The provider of automotive pricing and analytical services is integrating with Fox Factory Vehicles, an upfitter/modifier of performance trucks, cars, vans and SUVs for Ford, Chevrolet, GMC, RAM, Jeep and Mercedes Benz, to enable dealerships, lenders […] [Read More]

Carvana’s growing list of combined auction-reconditioning facilities will soon include one in the New York area. The online used-car retailer said it’s adding an inspection and reconditioning center to ADESA Long Island in Yaphank, N.Y. — the 10th such integration to be added in 2025 — which the company said will expand recon capacity and […] [Read More]

As Carolina Auto Auction was hosting its regular weekly sale on a Wednesday morning in late September, CEO Eric Autenrieth and general manager Vann Humphrey were some 900 miles away in Kansas City, Mo., attending the National Auto Auction Association’s World Remarketing Convention. No worries —the Williamston, S.C., auction is set up to run like […] [Read More]

OPENLANE has named longtime finance executive Bill Wright as vice president of investor relations to serve as the primary liaison communicating OPENLANE’s vision, strategy and growth to stockholders and the broader financial community. “Bill is a seasoned IR leader with a proven track record delivering results that drive stockholder value,” OPENLANE executive vice president and […] [Read More]