After hitting record levels in December and January, production declined in both February but recovered slightly in March.
An analysis of the latest data released from the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), shows that total production for the collision repair industry was up in March versus the previous month and up from March 2016.
The industry’s total production, which we define as the total average weekly hours per month multiplied by the total number of production and non-supervisory workers employed each month, was 7.48 million man hours per week in March, up from 7.47 million man
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