Action Update Newsletter

By IADA President Bruce Anderson I am admittedly not very good at social media. Once in a while I use Facebook to send birthday greetings to people I only see at high school reunions and family gatherings, and …

By IADA President Bruce Anderson The Iowa legislature convenes in 68 days, and there is a lot of work to be done between now and then. In many ways the next 68 days are more important to realizing …

By IADA President Bruce Anderson One of my favorite new traditions at IADA is the annual Dealership Compliance Meetings tour that we do each year. We used to rely on regional Town Meetings to communicate important legal, legislative, and regulatory …

By IADA President Bruce Anderson It seems like IADA has used a lot of newsletter space over the years telling you about electronic registration and titling (ERT). Other than reporting that more than 200 Iowa dealers are using the …

By IADA President Bruce Anderson “That was great! How can we do it better?” That is how my mentor and former boss Gary Thomas started the first IADA staff meeting I ever attended. He was talking about the …

By IADA President Bruce Anderson I know it’s bad. I just don’t know how bad. Please help me figure it out. IADA is working on the labor shortage, especially the technician shortage, and I keep getting asked, “How …

By IADA President Bruce Anderson In one of the Anne of Green Gables novels, the title character says, “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” I probably think …

By IADA President Bruce Anderson I grew up across the street from the elementary school I attended. Those of you my age or older may remember that back in those days there was a program jointly administered by …

By IADA President Bruce Anderson I loved getting to see so many of you yesterday at IADA’s annual Dealer Day at the Capitol. Iowa’s 150 legislators are routinely interacting with the 627 registered lobbyists advocating on behalf of …

By IADA President Bruce Anderson I miss Jim Lykam. Jim is a former car dealer who served for 20 years in the Iowa legislature before retiring last year. Don’t get me wrong. His successor, Senator Kerry Gruenhagen, a …

By IADA President Bruce Anderson While I was at the NADA Show in Dallas last week, I ran into an Iowa dealer who asked if he could use the IADA conference room for a meeting that he is …

By IADA President Bruce Anderson The first session of the 90th Iowa General Assembly convenes next week, and of the 150 members not one of them is an automobile dealer. But every single one of them is an …