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Rideshare and Delivery Fleet Vehicles Enter Wholesale Channels
🎧 Listen to this article By Daniel ReedSomewhere north of 4 million vehicles were actively operating on rideshare and delivery platf...
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Insurance Buyback Vehicles Re-Enter Retail Through a Regulatory Seam That Most States Have Not Closed
🎧 Listen to this article By Daniel Reed Industry claims data aggregators put total loss frequency at 23.1 percent for 2025, up from ...
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Export Fraud Rings Exploit Temporary Export Permits
🎧 Listen to this article By Marcus Holt CBP pulled somewhere north of 1100 stolen vehicles out of shipping containers at Atlantic an...
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Hurricane Season 2025 Flood Vehicles Already Appearing in Northern Wholesale Auctions
🎧 Listen to this article Between June and August of this year, tropical storms working through the Gulf Coast and southeastern seabo...
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Auction Lot Descriptions Stay in the Wholesale Record and the Retail Listing Tells a Different Story
NAAA member auctions sold more than 8 million vehicles in 2025, up 3 percent year over year, with in-lane sales at 7.2 million units and tot...
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Odometer Fraud Has Migrated to the Private Party Channel, and the Enforcement Infrastructure Has Not Followed It
🎧 Listen to this article NHTSA estimates that more than 450,000 vehicles are sold annually in the United States with false odometer ...
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The Spread Between Salvage and Clean Title Value on the Same Vehicle Funds the Entire Title Washing Pipeline
🎧 Listen to this article A rebuilt or salvage branded vehicle typically trades at 20 to 40 percent below clean title comparable valu...
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Flood Vehicles From Recent Hurricane Seasons Are Still Entering Resale
The NICB tracked approximately 347,000 flood damaged vehicles from the 2024 hurricane season, a number that includes vehicles totaled by ins...