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ADD is excited to announce that after nearly 15 years in the same location, we are moving! Since 1999, ADD has brought companies, big and small, innovative web-based tools to expedite and simplify their business processes. Customers like you have fueled continued growth, making a move to a new facility necessary.

ADD is hitting the road this year to provide towing and storage title training in conjunction with local Florida Tax Collector offices. The training will include a review of current state requirements along with a demonstration of how to get the most out of your ADD account. Topics will include notification letters through the auction process, including how easy it is to check title histories to safeguard your business.

There are many moving parts in the ADDTag system and since ADD is always making improvements there are always new features to explore. Here are a few handy tips: **See All of Your Work In One Tidy Screen** Did you know you can easily view all the work that has been issued by your dealership by clicking “Tools”, then “Issuance Transaction Logbook”? This will allow you to instantly get a detailed log of all the work that has been done under a given dealer license—these results can be quickly filtered by issuance time or time frame. This is a great resource to have in order to comply with FLHSMV audits or requests. The logbook can be exported to an Excel friendly document.

As a valued customer of ADD, your business benefits from access to real-time state title records through your DMV123 tab. Depending on your DPPA exemption, you may be able to query up to 34 states for vital data. It’s important to understand why ADD has taken the more difficult path of only providing real-time data rather than purchasing state records in bulk like many other data providers. ADD knows that the most current data protects your business and the consumer from possible errors based on stale information.

ADD would like to brag on both their staff and their customers for successfully completing several state audits this year! As a customer, you know the intense focus ADD places on security measures to protect DPPA data provided through its DMV123 inquiry services. Not only is it the right thing to do on behalf of the individuals whose records are being accessed, it is absolutely vital to ADD’s ability to maintain those real-time connections with each jurisdiction’s database.

Recent months have seen one extreme weather event after another, each seeming to trump the one before. When the next natural disaster occurs, the media moves on, and we hear little about the aftermath of the previous events. In late August hurricane Harvey lingered over south Texas, resulting in over 40” of rain in some areas, causing massive flooding. Two weeks later, hurricane Irma came right up the Florida peninsula causing a historic exodus of people fleeing the coming storm, with about 6 million people evacuating their homes. Puerto Rico was devastated, half of the Florida Keys were severely damaged, and parts of Florida experienced 15 hours of hurricane force winds and rain.

Shipping Schedule With the upcoming Christmas and New Year’s holidays right around the corner, Florida dealers should be sure to have plenty of temp tag stock on hand. __If you need temp tags for the Christmas holiday , they must be ordered by Thursday, December 21st before 3:00pm (ET). UPS will not be picking up or delivering tags on Monday, December 25th due to the Christmas holiday. Temp tags ordered Friday, December 22nd through Monday, December 25th should be received by Wednesday, December 27th.

Auto Data Direct, along with the Alabama Department of Revenue and Weil Wrecker, are offering a title training and Alabama Abandoned Portal class to Alabama towing and mechanic companies. The class will be held at Weil Wrecker in Birmingham on October 11, 2017 from 10:00am to 12:00pm with a lunch to follow.

As you may have noticed, ADDTag now has an updated look and feel. The process you’ve grown accustomed to over the last year is entirely the same, but ADD has made some improvements to how they use your screen space and how the toolbar is arranged. Below we’ll address some of the basic questions you may have about the updated interface:

_ &nbspNashville; Flood - Sunken Cars by Jay Bock_ As the Southeast begins to recover and rebuild after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the damage caused by the wind and floodwaters is becoming clear - and that damage includes a lot of vehicles. After a major disaster like Harvey or Irma, many of the damaged vehicles make their way into the used car and salvage market - often with no indication of their water-logged past. Flood vehicles can be and often are moved out of states where the flood happened and resold in another state far from where the damage occurred. No one wants to deal with the corroded electronics, contaminated lubricants and faulty computer systems that come with water- damaged vehicles - issues that may not appear until months after a vehicle has been cleaned up and sold.