CCAR announces release of mobile resource and training website

Jan. 1, 2020
Charlie Ayers, President of the Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair (CCAR) has announced the release of a fully mobile version of their green resources and training website.

Charlie Ayers, President of the Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair (CCAR) today announced the release of a fully mobile version of their popular safe, clean, and green resources and training website. “Google recently claimed that the mobile computing growth rate is 9 times that of the Internet during the late 90’s,” said Ayers in a statement. “More and more, people are accessing websites via their smartphones and tablets and it just makes sense to have a site that works visually on those smaller screens,” he added.

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CCAR is not the first to offer a truly mobile web to their customers, nor will they be the last. Businesses are flocking to provide a better user experience for the small screen and turning to web companies to build them. Unlike the websites of the 90’s, they are surprisingly affordable.

While smartphones improve with each version, the screens are still small and a full sized website on that smaller screen makes for a less than perfect experience. The answer to better customer satisfaction is presenting them with a fully mobile version of your website.

A mobile website is not just a miniature version of a full sized site, but rather a customized mobile experience that presents the best and most important features of your website anytime somebody accesses your full site URL from a mobile device. Mobile websites offer quick ways to call, email or find a business. Unlike an app, which can be expensive to design and must be downloaded and saved to the phone memory, a mobile site is delivered automatically when a visitor types in your web address on a cell phone.

“We are fortunate in that our advertising agency is also a web developer and built ours for less than $300 and had it up in one day,” said Ayers. “And while it has all our colors and branding intact, it is a far better user experience for site visitors that access the site using cell phones or tablets.” The radical difference can be seen by simply typing CCAR’s URL (www.cccar-greenlink.org) into both a desktop and smartphone browser at the same time and comparing the two.

Established in 1994, the Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that works – internationally in scope – with the automotive industry, the insurance industry, OEM’s, career and technical schools, collision and automotive repair shops, governments, municipalities and other organizations to provide best practice information and training, and to measure improvements related to:

  • Pollution Prevention (P2).
  • Safety for all who repair or maintain vehicles as a profession, as well as those who work in related businesses.
  • Reduction of lost workdays due to accidents or job- related health issues.
  • Decreases in costs and liability exposure.
  • Reduction in costs of training in these areas.

CCAR has earned an exclusive alliance with the following United States Government entities:

  • EPA: Since 1995, CCAR has operated “CCAR-GreenLink®,” the National Environmental Compliance Assistance Center for Automotive Repair, in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This free, web-based service provides a wide range of compliance and best practices information specifically for the auto repair industry.
  • OSHA: CCAR’s “Alliance” agreement with the US Department of Labor (DOL), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), works to develop best practices for those who work on or around vehicles to help protect employees’ health and safety. The agreement was first sign in 2004 and has been renewed every two years since.
  • DOT: At the request of the North American Automotive Hazmat Action Committee, a group of regulatory compliance specialists representing the major automotive manufacturers in North America, CCAR helped develop “HazmatU” an e-learning program for automotive dealers to address U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) training requirements for the shipment of hazardous materials. In addition, CCAR provides the “S/P2” e- learning program in Safety and Pollution Prevention (www.sp2.org) for the auto repair industry.

     

    HazmatU information is available www.hazmatU.org.

    To learn more about CCAR, visit www.ccar=greenlink.org.

     

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