Apprenticeship standards for the National Automobile Dealers Association.

Mode of access: Internet.

Projecte d'instal·lacions d'un taller concessionari

El present projecte té com a objectiu principal dissenyar i calcular les diferents instal·lacions necessàries per desenvolupar les activitats relacionades amb un taller concessionari, segons la normativa vigent que li és d’aplicació. El taller concessionari OLOTAUTO S.L., que es trobava situat a la ctra. de les Tries d’Olot, necessitava unes instal·lacions més modernes i espaioses; com a conseqüència, fa cosa de 2 anys, es va traslladar a una nau industrial de nova construcció situada al polígon industrial Pla de Baix d’Olot. Així doncs, per a l’elaboració del projecte, s’ha agafat aquesta nau com un edifici de nova construcció. El què pretén el projecte és realitzar un treball tècnic on aplicar els coneixements adquirits durant la titulació per tal d’acostarme al món laboral, és a dir, afrontar-me en la resolució de problemes propis de l’exercici professional, tot i que es tracti d’una nau industrial

Orientação para o mercado e desempenho financeiro: o panorama das concessionárias general motors no ramo automobilístico brasileiro

Este relatório trata de uma pesquisa sobre o Impacto da Orientação para o Mercado sobre o Desempenho Financeiro. Foi realizada uma revisão teórica e seguiu-se o delineamento de um modelo conceitual. Tal modelo foi testado empiricamente com os dados de uma amostra de 192 concessionárias de veículos General Motors operando no Brasil, utilizando-se do método de modelagem de equações estruturais. Apesar das limitações incidentes, o ajustamento global do Modelo revelou-se bem pequeno. Em especial, os vínculos causais entre os três componentes da Orientação para o Mercado (Orientação para o Consumidor, Orientação para a Concorrência e Coordenação Interdepartamental) mostraram-se como não significantes. Os resultados são discutidos à luz da literatura e suas implicações avaliadas. Mais pesquisas são necessárias para compreender esses complexos fenômenos.

Restrições verticais no setor automotivo: barreiras à entrada de novos concessionários

Os objetivos deste trabalho são (i) revisar a literatura econômica sobre restrições verticais, destacando efeitos pró-eficiência e anticompetitivos de sua adoção; (ii) apresentar aspectos institucionais da adoção de restrições verticais na distribuição de automóveis novos nos Estados Unidos e no Brasil, analisando a evolução recente da relação entre montadoras e concessionárias de automóveis no país; e (iii) investigar, a partir de dados sobre a localização de concessionárias no Brasil e sobre os condicionantes da demanda e da oferta de automóveis no país, os efeitos da entrada de concessionárias em mercados previamente monopolizados. Com relação a este último objetivo, um modelo de escolha binária foi adaptado de Bresnahan e Reiss (1990), a partir do qual concluiu-se que os custos fixos de entrada de uma segunda concessionária parecem ser, em média, menores do que os custos fixos da entrada da primeira concessionária, e que os lucros de duopólio parecem ser significativamente menores do que os de monopólio, indicando, ao contrário do observado em Bresnahan e Reiss (1990) com relação ao mercado norte-americano, concorrência entre concessionárias. Finalmente, possíveis implicações destas conclusões são discutidas.

The model T Ford car, its construction, operation and repair; a complete practical treatise explaining the operating principles of all parts of the Ford automobile, with complete instructions for driving and maintenance; includes the most thorough and easily understood illustrated instructions on Ford repairing ever published; based on five years' experience of a Ford operator--invaluable to all Ford owners, dealers, salesmen, drivers and repair men--every phase of the subject treated in a non-technical yet comprehensive manner,

Mode of access: Internet.

Study to determine availability of parts at dealers during a recall campaign. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Defects Investigation, Washington, D.C.

16th census of the United States: 1940. Census of business: 1939. Retail trade. Commodity sales: motor-vehicle dealers (new); accessory, tire, battery dealers; used-car dealers.

At head of title: U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Jesse H. Jones, Secretary. Bureau of the Census. J.C. Capt, Director ..

Validation of the MEASURE automobile emissions model : a statistical analysis

The Mobile Emissions Assessment System for Urban and Regional Evaluation (MEASURE) model provides an external validation capability for hot stabilized option; the model is one of several new modal emissions models designed to predict hot stabilized emission rates for various motor vehicle groups as a function of the conditions under which the vehicles are operating. The validation of aggregate measurements, such as speed and acceleration profile, is performed on an independent data set using three statistical criteria. The MEASURE algorithms have proved to provide significant improvements in both average emission estimates and explanatory power over some earlier models for pollutants across almost every operating cycle tested.

Property Agents and Motor Dealers Act : strike three

The Tourism, Racing and Fair Trading (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2002 (“the Act”) which was passed on 18 April 2002 contains a number of significant amendments relevant to the operation of the Property Agents and Motor Dealers Act 2000. The main changes relevant to property transactions are: (i) Changes to the process for appointment of a real estate agent and consolidation of the appointment forms; (ii) Additions to the disclosure obligation of agents and property developers; (iii) Simplification of the process for commencing the cooling off period; (iv) Alteration of the common law position concerning when the parties are bound by a contract; (v) Removal of the requirement for a seller’s signature on the warning statement to be witnessed; (vi) Retrospective amendment of s 170 of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997; (vii) Inclusion of a new power to allow inspectors to enter the place of business of a licensee or a marketeer without consent and without a warrant; and (viii) Inclusion of a new power for inspectors to require documents to be produced by marketeers. The majority of the amendments are effective from the date of assent, 24 April 2002, however, some of the amendments do not commence until a date fixed by proclamation. No proclamation has been made at the time of writing (2 May 2002). Where the amendments have not commenced this will be noted in the article. Before providing clients with advice, practitioners should carefully check proclamation details.

Property Agents and Motor Dealers Act : take two

The Property Agents and Motor Dealers Act 2000 commenced on 1 July 2001. Significant changes have now been made to the Act by the Property Agents and Motor Dealers Amendment Act 2001 (“the amending Act”). The amending Act contains two distinct parts. First, ss 11-19 of the amending Act provide for increased disclosure obligations on real estate agents, property developers and lawyers together with an extension of the 5 business day cooling-off period imposed by the original Act to all residential property (other than contracts formed on a sale by auction). These provisions commenced on 29 October 2001. The remaining provisions of the amending Act provide for increased jurisdiction and powers to the Property Agents and Motor Dealers Tribunal (“the Tribunal”) enabling the Tribunal to deal with claims against marketeers. These provisions commenced on the date of assent, 21 September 2001.

Waiver of statutory requirements : Property Agents and Motor Dealers Act 2000 (Qld)

One of the many difficulties associated with the drafting of the Property Agents and Motor Dealers Act 2000 (Qld) (‘the Act’) is the operation of s 365. If the requirements imposed by this section concerning the return of the executed contract are not complied with, the buyer and the seller will not be bound by the relevant contract and the cooling-off period will not commence. In these circumstances, it is clear that a buyer’s offer may be withdrawn. However, the drafting of the Act creates a difficulty in that the ability of the seller to withdraw from the transaction prior to the parties being bound by the contract is not expressly provided by s 365. On one view, if the buyer is able to withdraw an offer at any time before receiving the prescribed contract documentation the seller also should not be bound by the contract until this time, notwithstanding that the seller may have been bound at common law. However, an alternative analysis is that the legislative omission to provide the seller with a right of withdrawal may be deliberate given the statutory focus on buyer protection. If this analysis were correct the seller would be denied the right to withdraw from the transaction after the contract was formed at common law (that is, after the seller had signed and the fact of signing had been communicated to the buyer).

Property Agents and Motor Dealers Act (Qld) : disclosure, cooling-off and marketeers

The Property Agents and Motor Dealers Act 2000 commenced on 1 July 2001. Significant changes have now been made to the Act by the Property Agents and Motor Dealers Amendment Act 2001 (“the amending Act”). The amending Act contains two distinct parts. First, ss 11-19 of the amending Act provide for increased disclosure obligations on real estate agents, property developers and lawyers together with an extension of the 5 business day cooling-off period imposed by the original Act to all residential property (other than contracts formed on a sale by auction). These provisions are expected to commence on 29 October 2001. The remaining provisions of the amending Act provide for increased jurisdiction and powers to the Property Agents and Motor Dealers Tribunal (“the Tribunal”) enabling the Tribunal to deal with claims against marketeers. These provisions commenced on the date of assent (21 September 2001).

Performing Rural Masculinities : A Case Study of Diggers and Dealers

This chapter examines what Parpart and Zalewski (2008) label 'the man question' in terms of the rural. That is, 'how masculinity comes to be "made" as a continuing process within the social context' of rural places and spaces (Kerfoot and Knights 1993: 662). Our understanding of masculinities as discursively produced, relational, multiple and changing is given empirical force through a case study of the annual resource conference, Diggers and Dealers. The conference, held in the remote mining town of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia since 1992, is today the largest international meeting for the resource sector, attracting over 2000 attendees. Through an analysis of 120 texts related to the conference from 2006 to the present, including media repotis, blogs and conference programs and speeches, we demonstrate how, what is essentially a corporate event, is imported into the rural and constructed through the intersecting discourses of rurality, masculinity and heterosexuality. That is, though the first such meeting may have taken place spontaneously in Kalgoorlie, the delegates, and the 'skimpy' barmaids who serve patrons in their underwear or sometimes topless and are seen as central to the event, are flown into town for the conference. Kalgoorlie, as a working mining community on the edge of the deseti, provides both spectacle and conditions for the enactment of frontier masculinity not possible in the metropole.

Scenario planning and emerging global trends for the future of roads and automobile transport

Roads and road infrastructure will be faced with multiple challenges over the coming decades – challenges that in many ways bear little resemblance to those previously faced - and as such will require new approaches. The opportunity exists to transform the way road infrastructure is conceived and constructed, as a key part of the process of assisting society to respond to climate change and reduce other environmental pressures. Innovations in road construction, use and management in order to manage these changes can now be seen. Scenario planning is one tool that can take into account emerging challenges, develop or adopt new approaches, and thus help this transformation to occur. The paper explores scenario planning methodologies, global innovations and trends in road construction and maintenance and the findings from stakeholder workshops in Brisbane and Perth. It highlights key opportunities for road agencies to use scenarios to enable planning that, in the face of future uncertainties, facilitates appropriate responses.