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Another ARA Member Hosts U.S. Congressman for a Facility Tour


igsby’s Auto Salvage, Inc., in Zephyr- hills, Florida hosted their U.S. Con- gressman, Representative Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) at their facility and provided him with an in-depth tour of their full service yard. During the tour, Everett Rigsby, founder of the business and long-time leader of the FADRA Board of Directors, and his daughter Rachel, also on the FADRA Board and past presi- dent, talked at length with the Congressman about the indus- try, its history and its challenges. Rep. Bilirakis sits on the U.S. House Committee with jurisdic- tion over commerce, manufac- turing and most importantly, automotive safety issues. He was extremely interested in learning about the industry and plans to follow up on issues that will have an impact on the vitality of a small business such as Rigsby’s.


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Rigsby’s provided a face to professional automotive recyclers for their elected lawmaker.


ARA Reaches Out to All 50 State Attorneys General


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RA proactively reached out to every state Attorney General in the coun-


try in late February to educate them and their offices about the important role of genuine, recycled original equipment manufacturer (OEM) parts in today’s automotive parts market.


Ginny Whelan, ARA’s Education Foundation Executive Director, De- lanne Bernier, ARA Director of Policy and Political Affairs, Repre- sentative Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Everett Rigsby and Rachel Rigsby-Lare, of Rigsby’s Auto Salvage, Inc.


Also present for the visit were Ginny Whelan, ARA’s Education Foundation Executive Director and ARA Past Presi- dent, as well as Delanne Bernier, ARA Director of Policy and Political Affairs. The Congressman was very appreciative of everyone’s time and effort and was especially interested to learn about the ARA University and other educational opportunities available to ARA member companies.


Everett and Rachel provided a face to professional automotive recyclers for their elected lawmaker. Their willingness to open their business to demonstrate how important recyclers are to the envi- ronment, consumers, and the commu- nity is invaluable.


Please email Delanne, delanne@a-r-a. org, if you can join the Rigsby’s and other ARA members who have hosted Congress- ional visits. ARA will take care of arrang- ing the meeting and you will tell the story.


8 Automotive Recycling | March-April 2015


The letters were partly in response to recent comments made by attorney generals from Louisiana and Mississippi during a CNN segment investigating alleged insurance steering practices and misrepresentations about recycled parts. ARA’s letters to the attorney generals stated that “the professional automotive recycling industry has long been an advocate for consumer choice, and as such ARA supports a robust automotive parts supply chain. Genuine recycled, OEM parts sold by ARA member facili- ties play a critical economic and envi- ronmental role in the market, providing consumers with an important alterna- tive to expensive ‘new’ OEM parts,” and listed several important facts about recy- cled OEM parts that are critical for pol- icymakers to know, including: • The reutilization of quality, OEM automotive parts is a $32 billion indus- try in the United States;


• Each day over 500,000 recycled OEM parts that were designed and built to meet the automakers original require- ments for fit, finish, durability and safety are sold directly to consumers as well as to repair shops and automobile dealers who are very well aware that recycled OEM parts are being used in the repair of their vehicle;


• Recycled parts play an important eco- nomic role in the marketplace. Without their existence, many times there would be no alternative part options to an expensive “new” part available for hard working Americans – leaving them at the


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