Auto Remarketing Podcast

Our "PAL" Jeremy Louisos of Preowned Auto Logistics is back on the show for a wide-ranging conversation about his work on remarketing industry committees and conferences, top issues and hot topics in auto transport and much more. The interview is among our first recorded through a podcast studio and includes video. Stay tuned to Auto Remarketing's YouTube page for more: https://www.youtube.com/@AutoRemarketingPodcast.

Used-car inventory on dealer lots nowadays can range from older, higher-mileage vehicles to EVs, lifted trucks, and modified vehicles. The result is dealers are also having to change the vehicle-protection conversations with customers.

In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, GWC Warranty senior vice president and managing director James Virgoe explained effective approaches to presenting protection plans based on vehicle age, mileage, technology, and expected ownership risks

Virgoe also highlighted what dealers should look for in a protection partner to make sure they can confidently support the vehicles they want to retail.

Shams Blanc, head of auto scores at FICO, made another appearance on the Auto Remarketing Podcast to elaborate more about the fall edition of the FICO Score Credit Insights report.

Along with recapping what’s going on in auto finance, Blanc also touched on how other parts of the credit market like student loans are impacting consumers.

On this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Bill Zadeits visits with Billy Willis and Kevin Stallings of Greenville Auto Auction.

The auction celebrates 16 years in early September, and the guys talk about the history of the sale, the anniversary and what's coming next. With a sincere focus on serving their customers and their community, you'll enjoy hearing more about GAA in this conversation.

Lotlinx chairman and CEO Len Short firmly believes car dealers are the most resilient operators in any business.

During this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Short explained why he is anticipating dealers showing that resilience again because it’s needed in today’s car business. Lotlinx is seeing used- and new-car inventory levels rising and pageviews on store websites softening.

Steve Levine has dozens of dealer clients with Spanish as their native language. Those dealers also have hundreds of Hispanic customers who cannot speak or understand English.

To fill compliance and training gaps created by language challenges, the owner of Ignite Dealer Compliance Group has been in an intentional process of creating programs in Spanish. Levine takes us through why this project is important during this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast.

John Elias, sales specialist in auto finance business development for Allied Solutions, is back as the guest for another sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast.

Elias explains why current market conditions, affordability pressures and changing vehicle values are combining to put lenders into a position where their potential biggest opportunities might be after the auto loan is booked.

The Federal Trade Commission recently announced it will not pursue claims based on disparate-impact or “unfair discrimination” theories.

In this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Hudson Cook partners Erica Kramer and Rob Tilley offered some historical perspectives and a big-picture views about what the regulator’s decision means for dealerships and finance companies.

One of the notable findings from TransUnion's Q2 2026 Credit Industry Insights Report (CIIR) was how much loan-to-value ratios have changed in the past five years.

Satyan Merchant, one of this year’s Automotive Intelligence Award recipients and senior vice president and automotive and mortgage business leader for TransUnion, recapped what exactly LTVs are, why they’re so important to auto financing and what else is happening in the credit market during another conversation on the Auto Remarketing Podcast.

PayNearMe recently shared new search, explaining that hidden costs sustained by auto lenders can show up as failed payments, borrower support calls, late payments, collections follow-up, reconciliation work and manual recovery effort.

PayNearMe chief product officer John Minor elaborated about that research in this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, detailing how technology — especially artificial intelligence — can help finance companies reduce those costs and more.