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FRONT LINE MAGAZINE
The official digital magazine of the
COLORADO INDEPENDENT
AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION
950 Wadsworth Blvd., Suite 101
Lakewood, CO 80214
303-239-8000 • ciada.org
OFFICERS
President
Jim Bode, J. Bode Used Cars, Inc.
Vice-President NOW IS THE TIME
Mark Weida, Street Smart Auto Brokers
Secretary
Tim Gaylord, Gaylord Leasing By David Cardella, CEO in Succession, CIADA
Treasurer
Teshome Tesfaye, Norfolk Motors
Chariman of Board Time for what you ask. Time to return to the business of helping people purchase needed
John Lindberg, Auto Warehouse transportation. The COVID-19 shutdown allowed everyone to look closer at their process
of selling vehicles, reconditioning, advertising, amount of inventory they carried and the
Directors number of employees you need to be successful. I am not advocating for you to make
Mike Whistance, Country Truck & Auto changes, but I think everyone has been surprised to find out each one of those depart-
Mike Widhalm, Reds Auto and Truck ments could be adjusted to help control costs.
Ajet Zalli, Zalli Motors
Anson Damosso, Cross Country Motors During the shutdown CIADA operated on a limited basis continuing to keep our members
Brian Neeley, Drive N-Motion updated on the rule changes as they were released. We pushed back on mandates like no
test drives and the closing of showrooms never giving up on trying to get our industry
CIADA STAFF designated as essential just as service and parts departments were deemed. Unfortunately,
Todd O’Connell, CEO our reasoning fell on deaf ears, but we have not given up and will continue to fight for such
David Cardella, CEO in Succession (x302) a designation in case we are confronted with this issue again.
Jami McCoy, Office Manager
Chris Choka, Dealer Services Prior to the shutdown CIADA was working on correcting laws governing our industry by
Flor Briones, Dealer Services
sponsoring three bills concerning emissions, demo plates and opening of the dealer bond.
PRODUCTION EDITOR All three bills received strong support from the legislators as they passed through the ini-
Professional Mojo tial committees. Upon returning from the shutdown, many bills were deemed non-essen-
info@professionalmojo.com tial and were eliminated. The emissions and demo plate bills met this fate, but thankfully
Copyright 2020 SB20-140 did not and was voted through the House, passing with 64 aye votes and one
excused. It is now headed to the Governor’s desk to be signed. We believe this was our
Front Line magazine is published most significant bill as it dealt with a loophole in the statue that would allow frivolous
quarterly by the Colorado Independent lawsuits involving the bond against dealers. A special thanks goes to our team at Aponte/
Automobile Dealers Association, Busam who worked hard behind the scenes on our behalf, resulting in no one opposing
representing quality independent our bill - including the trial lawyers.
automobile dealers since 1941. CIADA
assists members in becoming more CIADA will always work hard on resolving issues affecting our members and having sub-
successful within the used motor stantial membership numbers lends strength when we argue issues in front of legislators.
vehicle industry by consistently If you know of a fellow dealer who is not a member of CIADA, now is the time to ask them
bringing you industry education, to join CIADA so we can have the strongest voice possible. We are always available to help
valuable information, services and you and answer your questions. Welcome back and let us all have a strong 2nd half of the
benefits designed to prepare members
for an ever-changing marketplace. year. n
DO NOT LET EMISSIONS TESTING
STATIONS RUN THE OBD TEST ON
12 YEAR OLD VEHICLES—IT WILL
WILL BE AN AUTOMATIC FAIL.
