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November/December 2010 Member Profi le Bionic Auto Parts Bionic aftermarket parts and have good trading partners thru Auto Parts our PRP network. is a fam- John Catalano Jr., Soon to be Vice President of ily owned ATRI , explained that by being an ATRI member it has business enabled them to meet so many people, make so many that has more connections and has kept them updated and in- been op- formed as to the ongoing issues that our industry faces erated and located in Chicago for 33 years. They spe- on a daily basis. John Catalano Sr. is a past President of cializes in late model vehicles that are 2003 or newer ATRI and continues to sit on the ATRI board today. Bi- in a facility that is located on 15 acres. One of their onic Auto Parts hosted the 2007 Convention & Trade other specialties is offering extended warranties, and Show. having a friendly dedicated staff to making our cus- John Catalano Jr, said they would like to fi nd a way tomers happy. By being an IL Green Car, Gold Seal to buy cars without going to the auctions because of member they can boast that they provide a large in- ventory of good clean parts, fast service, a full line of Bionic continued on page 17 What’s Inside... President’s Perspective . 4 Waste Oil as a Source of Heat . 13 Executive’s Viewpoint . 6 ATRI Member Benifi ts/Application . 15/16 ATRI Holiday Party . 8 Cracking The Leadership Code in the Recycling Update on Illinois Mercury Switch Industry: What Type Of Leader Are You? . 19 Removal Program . 9 Sales Tips 1:04 . 21 Field Trips . 10 NMVTIS Advisory Board’s Second Meeting . 22 Whats New With You . 10 Blue Jeans, Green Homes—a Perfect Fit . 22 Should Service and Quality Standards be Added to the Illinois Green CAR Program? . 11 Auto & Truck Recyclers of Illinois ATRIATRI 2010 Board of Directors Joe Watson John Catalano President Bionic Auto Parts The ATRI NEWS ABC Auto Parts & Sales, Inc. Ph: 773/489-6020 Ph: 708/389-1456 Fax: 773/489-4722 The ATRI News is published six times Fax: 708/389-5126 per year for the Auto & Truck Recyclers John Catalano, Jr. of Illinois. None of the material in this Larry Brosten Bionic Auto Parts publication necessarily refl ects the Vice President Ph: 773/489-6020 opinion of ATRI, its offi cers, directors, Auto Parts City, Inc Fax: 773/489-4722 staff, members or it’s Publisher. State- Ph: 847244-7171 Jim Rhodes ments of fact and opinion are the re- Fax: 847/244-7279 sponsibility of the author alone. Rhodes Auto S/S/S Scott & Travis Mefford Ph: 815/673-3737 Articles and letters suitable for pub- Secretary/Treasurer Fax: 815/672-5430 lication will be published in the next scheduled newsletter as space per- Scotty’s Auto Parts Andy Zalon mits. Material should be sent to: Ph: 217/452-3081 C & J Auto Pars Inc Michelle Lechner Fax: 217/452-3299 Ph: 800/783-8121 Executive Director, ATRI David Anderson Fax: 773/523-1158 2817 White Plains Ct. Immediate Past President Jack Reichel Springfi eld, IL 62704 I-55 Auto Salvage, Inc [email protected] Chicago Industrial Catalytic Ph: 815/467-2938 Ph: 321-914-6666 Articles may be edited for length and Fax: 815/467-7152 Fax: 847-236-9725 format. Jim Watson Throughout this issue, trademarked Rob McCartney Legislative Liaison Macks Recycling names are used. Rather than place a ABC Auto Parts & Sales, Inc. trademark symbol in every occurrence Ph: 217/367-6219 Ph: 708/389-1456 of a trademarked name, we state we are Fax: 217/367-9001 using the names only in an editorial Fax: 708/389-5126 fashion, and to the benefi t of the trade- Sean Krause mark owner, with no intention of in- Speedway Auto, LTD fringement of the trademark. Mention Ph: 800/437-8733 of trade names, commercial products, Fax: 815/726-9427 or techniques does not constitute en- dorsement or recommendation for use. This publication is mailed free of charge to Automotive Recyclers in Illinois. This newsletter is supported by the Advertisers. ATRI Contact Please thank them through your patronage. Information Advertising Contact Executive Director Michelle Lechner ATRI retains the publishing services of 2817 White Plains Ct. R. J. McClellan Inc. for the publishing of this newsletter. Springfi eld, IL 62704 Monday - Friday, 8AM – 4PM Ph: 877/880-2874 Phone 651-458-0089 • Toll Free 877-525-4589 Fax: 217/793-2277 Fax 651-458-0125 • Email [email protected] Email: [email protected] Ron McClellan Sheila Cain www.IllinoisAutoRecyclers.com Advertising Sales Layout and Design Auto & Truck Recyclers of Illinois ATRIATRI Association News 4 November/December 2010 President’s Perspective Joseph Watson, ATRI President Just last month our company needed to replace a tions that were unexpired. Employees had taken upon couple computers. Apparently there were two comput- themselves to download freeware in order to speed up ers that had some very nasty viruses and after spending their systems (apparently this was a very bad practice) too much time trying to repair/restore the systems I and they were actually slowing down the systems and gave up. I called customer support for our yard man- infecting networked hard drives. New computers had agement system, found out that we could upgrade to historically been given to managers/supervisors while Windows 7, pulled out the credit card and placed an the older systems were transferred to others in their de- order for a couple new computers. The boxes arrived partments (bad for morale). We had purchased many and time came to; set up the systems, and decide who different workstations from different manufacturers. would get the newer, faster systems, I found that I did Our systems in general were older and had been shift- not have enough time in the day to do this and per- ed around so that our mapped network (a list of every form my work tasks. I did what anyone in this situa- computer with their IP addresses) had been moved so tion would and I called ‘one of my people’, a network that they were not where they were supposed to be guy who at one time managed a school district’s com- located. All employees had the same user name, same puter network. I passwords, and all had unlimited access to whatever explained my situ- web site they wished to access. ation and he came My ‘guy’ took me into my offi ce and explained by to survey our that we were very vulnerable. Not his exact words, network. Frankly they were a bit stronger. He told me that we needed a I was unprepared computer network plan; a strategy to upgrade systems, for his assessment to plan purchases and to limit the fl avors (models and of our company’s confi gurations) of the computers, deploy a server based network. corporate anti-virus/spyware/malware program, and Our anti-virus, give everyone their own user name and password so anti-spyware and that we could limit ‘unproductive web surfi ng’. Again anti-malware were I was shocked, maybe a little stunned. a hodgepodge of Within one week, we developed a computer net- several different work plan. I share this with you because if we were designers, and that vulnerable, I believe other yards are currently vulner- was on the com- able as well. Bi-annually we will purchase enough puters that actu- computers so that our oldest system will never be older ally had subscrip- than six years old. We set up the fi rst computer out of Auto & Truck Recyclers of Illinois ATRIATRI Association News November/December 2010 5 the box to contain all the programs that anyone in the given a unique user name and password. These are business will need to be productive; in addition any in addition to the unique user name and password re- unproductive software pre-loaded is removed. We cre- quired to access the yard management system. Net- ate a ‘ghost image’, a restore point, so that if any com- work user names determine the access level for access puter becomes corrupted we wipe the entire system, to your main server where your main system is locat- download any updates and create a new ‘ghost image’ ed. If someone leaves a work station, they log out of so that if any computer of that ‘fl avor’ (see above for the network and the yard management system, when the reference) also becomes corrupted we can quick- someone else access the work station, they log in. This ly put it back into service. New computers replace will track the server user’s access to the internet and older computers, no transferring of computers from unproductive web sites. one work station to another, and the new computers In summary; 1) determine the useful life of your use the IP address of the computer it replaces. My work stations (we chose 6 years) and cycle the replace- ‘guy’ recommends that we have no more than three ment (we chose 1/3 every 2 years) of them when the ‘fl avors’, so that we no longer have the hodgepodge, computer gets too old to be productive, 2) purchase this will make management of the network much eas- only three models over the useful life of your work ier and much cheaper (time is money)than having to stations, 3) create a ‘ghost image’ when you set up completely restore unique computer systems. Retired your systems for a clean restore point, 4) donate the computers are wiped and restored back to the origi- old (cleaned) computers to get a tax credit, 5) install nal ‘ghost image’ and we are able to donate them to a server based corporate anti-virus/spyware/malware charitable organizations and realize a tax credit for our program on a separate server, 6) back up information donation.