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Interview: Burl Richards, Auto Body Association of Texas

September 20, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

Richards discusses collision repair industry issues that led to founding of association. Highlights Texas Auto Body Trade Show that starts today.

The Texas Auto Body Trade show starts today at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas. The annual two-day event, sponsored by the Auto Body Association of Texas (ABAT) includes an education program designed to keep collision repairers at the forefront of technology and current industry issues.

In our interview embedded below, CollisionWeek publisher and Editor in Chief Russell Thrall discusses the founding of the association in 2014 and the trade show with Burl Richards, from Burl’s

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