Why CTDA Membership Matters More Than Ever

The California Tire Dealers Association has been the foremost advocate for the California tire industry since its inception. As a member of CTDA, you are on the front lines of regulatory and legislative issues that directly affect your business. CTDA members have long served as an active and effective voice for California’s tire industry.

Informing Policymakers: CTDA lobbyists provide data, research and expert testimony to lawmakers, helping them make informed decisions on complex and industry-specific issues.

Expertise and Education: CTDA offers technical expertise and industry insight to policymakers, ensuring regulations and legislation are grounded in real-world operational knowledge.

Raising Awareness: CTDA actively participates in legislative hearings and briefings to highlight the challenges facing tire dealers and the broader automotive service industry.

Influencing Legislation: CTDA helps shape, amend, and promote legislation that aligns with industry goals, including reasonable standards and fair regulatory practices.

Protecting the Industry: By advocating against unfavorable policies and regulations, CTDA works to protect tire dealers from unnecessary costs, burdens and competitive disadvantages.

Strengthened Voice & Advocacy: By working together and in coalition with other organizations, CTDA provides a stronger, more unified, and more influential voice than individual efforts alone.

• Opposing and defeating legislation that would have increased the tire fee from $1.75 to $3.25 per tire.
• Supporting and helping pass BAR regulations allowing auto repair dealers to provide electronic estimates and authorizations (e.g., text messages).
• Opposing legislation that would have created a state-mandated “grading system” similar to restaurant scorecards.
• Supporting legislation to reform California’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), addressing abuses while protecting workers and limiting costly shakedown lawsuits.
• Opposing legislation that would have extended unemployment benefits to striking workers, which would have increased unemployment insurance taxes for all employers.
• Supporting the BAR Auto Shop Locator Program, allowing shops to submit nationally recognized and industry-accepted certifications (e.g., ASE, OEM certifications) for posting on the BAR website.
• Supporting legislation that increased penalties for catalytic converter theft.
• Opposing legislation that would have extended sales tax to vehicle repair labor, unnecessarily increasing repair costs for consumers.
• Supporting legislation prohibiting tire dealers from installing used unsafe tires that could harm consumers.
• Opposing Department of Toxic Substances Control regulatory proposals that could have increased facility, generator, and hazardous waste disposal fees for tire dealers and automotive repair shops.
• Supporting increased funding for K-12 Career Technical Education programs.
• Opposing legislation that would have established a 32-hour workweek pilot program.
• Supporting remedial training legislation requiring BAR to establish a process allowing successful completion of training to prevent public disclosure of citations and fines.
• Supporting legislation requiring BAR to create an independent three-member panel—representing BAR, the public, and the automotive repair industry—to hear appeals of citations and fines.

Your membership in CTDA has helped to fund these many successes and accomplishments, and we are very grateful for your support. If you or a colleague ever questions why you should renew your CTDA membership, please refer to this article and remember that CTDA cannot continue these efforts without the support of members like you.