I-Car Gold The I-CAR® Gold Class Professionals™ designation is among the highest recognitions for training available to businesses in the collision repair industry. Businesses (not employees) who have earned this designation not only achieve a high level of training for each employee, but also meet annual employee training requirements to provide their customers with efficient, safe, and high-quality repairs.
Coyote Vision Group The Coyote Vision Group is a 20-Group or Peer Management Group consisting of top-of-class collision repair owners across North America who meet on a quarterly basis. The members share ideas and helping each other to improve their businesses and gain personal development.
Sherwin Williams Certification Production-excellence courses are being provided through classroom, web and hands-on settings at numerous Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes training centers located in metropolitan areas across the United States and Canada. The classes consist of multiple courses designed to increase shop productivity and include classes that focus on painter certification, AWX® waterborne systems, color adjustment and blending, fleet refinishing, accurate estimating, workshop efficiency, and much more.
Washington Metropolitan Auto Body Provides guidelines for the type of training technicians have. Technicians should be National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) certified, and/or Inter-industry Conference on Auto Collision Repair (I-CAR) trained. This association encourages active membership in a local trade association, career advisory committee, or the local chamber of commerce.
Chamber of Commerce. Professional Collision Centers is a member of both Prince William Chamber of Commerce and the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce.
The Prince William Chamber of Commerce is the largest chamber in Northern Virginia, connecting more than 1,800 member businesses with resources for success in a dynamic marketplace. The Chamber provides members with business building programs, increased visibility, an advocate for their business needs and opportunities to affect positive change in the Prince William area and beyond. A champion for the community, the Prince William Chamber also promotes Prince William County and the Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park as a wonderful place to live, work, play AND do business.
The Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce facilitates healthy economic growth and is a leader for the business community. This assures the Fredericksburg Region is a major economic center in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is composed of the region's most influential and community-minded members. Ranks include a diverse mix of small and large businesses in the service sector, national and international firms, licensed professionals, manufacturers and retailers. Other members are in finance, technology, defense, healthcare, education, tourism and media. This Chamber offers a wide array of services and programs, helping to bolster the successes of its members.