Posted by Rex oakman on Tuesday, August 29, 2023,
In an era of heightened environmental consciousness, the recycling industry plays a pivotal role in shaping sustainable practices and minimizing waste. Australia, like many other countries, has been actively engaged in recycling efforts, aiming to reduce its ecological footprint and contribute to a greener future. However, the journey has not been without its challenges. This blog delves into the recycling landscape in Australia, highlighting both the obstacles faced by the industry and the s...
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Posted by Rex oakman on Wednesday, August 16, 2023,
1. Environmental Impact and Sustainability:
The salvage industry contributes to environmental sustainability by recycling and reusing valuable materials from damaged vehicles. Salvage yards are equipped to dismantle and recycle parts such as engines, transmissions, and various metals, reducing the need for new manufacturing and conserving resources. Additionally, hazardous materials are safely disposed of, preventing environmental contamination.
2. Salvage Yards and Dismantlers:
Salvage yards,...
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Posted by Damaged-vehicles.com on Monday, December 5, 2011,
So we have noticed a new
used car sales platform just been launched in Australia for motor dealers only to buy, sell, request cars and also to request wholesale pricing in a fully automated style, linking dealers and wholesalers together across the web! Now this sound logical, but amazingly no other system appears to exist in this market place let alone operate in a fully automated, real time sequence - is this a new phase to replace the auction model possibly?
What intrigues us about this mod...
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Posted by Damaged-vehicles.com on Monday, July 18, 2011,
We are selling a domain name we own
www.damagedvehicles.com. As we have been running
www.damaged-vehicles.com now for almost a year, we have succeeded in all our goals with our current domain and have decided to sell this domain.
Please contact us at
sales@damaged-vehicles.com if your interested?
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Posted by Damaged-vehicles.com on Monday, July 18, 2011,
The
damaged-vehicle industry in the UK is, like others, faced with a number of enforced qualifications, which, like it or not and despite in some cases very serious objections and challenges are apparently unlikely to simply “go away”. It is therefore in the interest of every company affected by these enforced qualifications to “fall in line”. The CoTC Technically Competent Manager (TCM) qualification comes into force next February 2012, although it is being challenged as this is bein...
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Sunday, May 29, 2011,
Well we have now operationally experienced a few months of this new legislation and it appears that the Gov't has opened up a new loop hole, as we all new it would do! So what appears to be happening now is that NSW buyers are purchasing vehicles from all other states, repairing them using the cheap purchased vehicles from NSW (better quality vehicles at cheaper prices than outside of NSW or dare we say the continuation of stolen vehicles in NSW used on non NSW purchased and sold vehicles), t...
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Sunday, May 29, 2011,
THE EUROPEAN Commission is investigating why the number of certificates of destruction for end-of-life vehicles in Ireland falls far short of the number of vehicles coming off the road.
According to the commission, statistics from Ireland and several other member states indicate that there are a “significant number” of vehicles the whereabouts of which are unknown as they have not been issued with a certificate of destruction. Such a certificate must be issued by authorised treatment fac...
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Thursday, April 28, 2011,
Damaged-Vehicles.com new ground breaking salvage management system for insurance, fleets & all other salvage
providers will be available Q2, 3 of 2011, together with the latest online only auction technology, never seen before in Australia.
Using our team’s knowledge of the insurance motor supply chain and claims environments, we have designed a management
system that is task orientated and manages the complete claims life cycle of a salvage vehicle via our web portal. Being a task
orienta...
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Tuesday, April 19, 2011,
Small automotive component providers are beginning to take advantage of ulta-lean supply chain management
principles, it has been claimed.
Recent years have seen a rising pressure on automotive suppliers to decrease their inventory expenses, which
has played a key role in pushing some of the world's manufacturers into lean working practices, Evolution Time
Critical believes.
The organisation specialises in providing stocking advice to manufacturers and has recorded consistent
double-digit...
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Friday, March 11, 2011,
Prodrive has exchanged contracts with three manufacturers of sports and luxury cars in order to provide a selection of carbon composite vehicle components.
The deal will see parts developed for an estimated total of 5,000 vehicles over a space of six years, with the agreements worth more than £10 million.
This increase in carbon car parts could also be reflected in the damaged-vehicle sector if more consumers adopt environmentally-friendly measures and recycle their vehicles' materials.
C...
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Friday, March 11, 2011,
Australia backs recharging network for Electric Cars - Australia is set to become the latest country
to test the market for the viability of electric vehicles, with an A$1bn ($676m) project to build a large-scale
recharging infrastructure. Macquarie Capital Group is planning to raise the money for Better Place, a US
venture capital-backed company that builds charging points and battery-swap stations for plug-in vehicles
in Israel and Denmark.
AGL Energy will pledge to add enough energy cap...
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Saturday, February 26, 2011,
So in case you haven't seen the button on our home page to click through and see the official
NSW written off vehicle reforms from 2011 you can click here:
http://www.damaged-vehicles.com/nsw-written-off-vehicle-reform-2011.php then download the official file.
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Saturday, February 19, 2011,
So if we were to speculate that the recession hasn't quite hit Australia as yet, would you take notice?
Does the spirilling house prices and interest rate rises not curbed by rising inflation not make sense?
We know the commodities markets are booming thanks to China, and the knock on effect to our industry
is scrap metal prices. This indecy is rising thanks to China, and making some people very wealthy, but
would you have ever thought that such fales economies are to blame for our cost of li...
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Saturday, February 12, 2011,
As we get one step closer to launching in Australia, we are happy to announce the launch of our new forums!
If you are interested in discussing, commenting or replying on any subject matter of the motor industry, you
have come to the right place! Just click on the forums page and proceed to click on the link.
Not only would we like to host forums for the Australian motor salvage &
auction industries, but also the wider motor industry from around the world.
So feel free to login and start your dis...
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Thursday, January 27, 2011,
Our technology is still under development but will be due to go live August 2011.
This technology will be ground breaking for the Australian salvage industry as a service provider
to all insurance companies.
So to give you an idea of what we aretalking about, this technology will assist insurance
companies in managing "the process" for salvage management from end to end including task
assignment and management for claims handlers.
This will be coupled with the full online auction management of ...
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Sunday, January 23, 2011,
With some of the worst floods the country has seen in years our deepest sympithies go out to those who are effected. Please contact us here at damaged-vehicles.com if your motor vehicle has been damaged and your insurance company isn't going to cover the damage to your vehicle and you are looking for a way to sell your vehicle while returning maximum value.
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Monday, January 3, 2011,
As most of us know the new NSW legislation hasn't officially gone live as yet, this is meant
to happen January 31, but it was also meant to be live Q4 last year in 2010! It is also believed that
motorcycles will not be included in this until later in 2011, but no date has been set.
Let's all consider that the legislation continues to be pushed back, at least until the state elections
upon which time the liberal state government has declared that they will not back the NSW written off vehicle ...
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Posted by Damaged-vehicles.com on Thursday, November 18, 2010,
Written-off vehicle reforms
Official extract from the NSW RTA
Changes to written-off vehicle laws management
On 10 January 2011, the New South Wales Government will introduce laws which aim to improve
road safety and consumer protection, and clamp down on vehicle theft, re-birthing and related crime.
Vehicles assessed as a total loss after the legislation is introduced, will be classified as statutory
(non-repairable) write-offs. This means they cannot be registered and can only be used for par...
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Friday, October 29, 2010,
Posted by Salvage Expert on Thursday, October 28, 2010,
Having done some buying and selling with local salvage auction businesses nationally to see what
is on offer and how both sellers and buyers are treated, i have to say overall, the service is pretty
ordinary as judged by personal experience only!
We are interested to hear any wider views or feedback from those who are in the salvage/wrecking
businesses, good or bad regarding their current suppliers in Australia service delivery and possible
solutions for any bad feedback so things are kept in...
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Monday, October 25, 2010,
Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Friday, October 22, 2010,
Well it is official, last night Oct 21 2010 the new NSW repairable write off bill was passed as legislation
in parliament with the view of it going live from Nov 2 2010.
What this means is that you will no longer be able to purchase a written off vehicle in NSW to re-register
it, only if the vehicle is outside of certian restrictions will you be able to do this..you can read a past blog
about what these restrictions look like. So does this mean that we will get cheaper used parts due to the
ad...
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Posted by Partsman on Tuesday, October 19, 2010,
Well we know the new legislation in NSW is coming Oct 29, so what does this mean for the future of the salvage industry in australia and at least NSW for now?
Export? increase in used parts on repairs? Insurance company control of salvage going forward - meaning the end of salvage Auctions?? Be interested to hear some comments out there....
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Monday, October 18, 2010,
Vehicle write-off plan wins approval
18 October 2010
A national theft reduction body says a NSW ban on re-registering written-off vehicles is “a step forward” in efforts to stop car re-birthing across the state.
However, preventing written-off vehicles from being re-registered in other states is a hurdle still to be faced.
The NSW Government introduced legislation last week prohibiting the re-registration of all written-off vehicles in NSW from next month.
National Motor Vehicle Thef...
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Posted by anonymous on Thursday, October 14, 2010,
Well it now looks as though the new legislation is due to be tabled on October 16 for sign off, with the expectation to become LAW Oct 29 2010 to cease having repairable written off vehicles.
The new law applies to the following:
- all vehicles under 15 years old
Exclusions to the new law are:
- non structural hail damaged vehicle
- personal value vehicles (i.e. you the policy holder chooses to keep your vehicle as salvage the insurer pays you vehicle value, less the salvage value back to y...
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Posted by Damaged-Vehicles.com on Monday, September 27, 2010,
Now we know that both labour government and the NMVTRC are trying to stop all salvage vehicles from being re-registrable by both:
- introducing the new NSW legislation to ban all repairable write off's (Vic and QLD are also looking at how this goes before bringing it into the respective states after NSW
- forcing assessors to make more repairable write off's, statutory write off's by way of assessing the damage points and areas of damage against severity of damage (i.e. 3 impact points on par...
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Posted by anonymous on Thursday, September 2, 2010,
As some of you may have heard, the theft reduction council is looking at re-categorising the total loss methods, which will result in more stat write off's, what's everyones thoughts on this?
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Posted by anonymous on Thursday, September 2, 2010,
As we don't seem to be able to make a government, labour is still looking to bring in the new legislation to stop any repairable salvage. It has been hinted that if labour gets back in they will be looking to chair this new bill Jan 2011 - lets hope that Labour doesn't get in to power...
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