Collision Repair Industry Production up over 5% in March Compared to 2018

Production was up in March versus both 2018 and the previous month in the U.S.

An analysis of the latest data released from the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), shows that collision repair industry production in March 2019 was up compared to both March 2018 and February. However, production remains below the record levels it had achieved in June 2017.

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 7.65 million man hours per week in… read more on the CollisionWeek website