A potentially business-closing $3.5 million tax assessment led to the creation of the Tennessee chapter of International Carwash Association and, ultimately, the passing of a new bill to clarify Tennessee Code 67-6-205(c).

If you're headed to Nashville in two weeks for The Car Wash Show, it's time to set some reminders for your trip. Don’t forget to check in for your flight, make those reservations for dinner with your team, and for everything else, download The Car Wash Show mobile app. It’ll remember the rest.

Source: Popular Mechanics
We've been promised a future in which machines do the driving for us. When will they be ready? And when the time comes, will we be ready?

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A payment solution that lets drivers purchase gas from their car without taking out cash, a credit card or a mobile app just launched in Westborough, Mass. PayByCar™ allows drivers to simplify and speed up non-toll transactions such as gas purchases.

The new Tidal Wave Auto Spa opened for business in Raytown, Missouri on April 3, 2019. This express car wash, located at 10001 E State Route 350 is the 29th location for Tidal Wave, and the first in the Midwest.

Source: Black Hills Pioneer
A new state-of-the-art car wash will open in Sturgis, S.D. in the coming months. The new Scooptown Car Wash will have an app option for customers, so when they pull up to the automatic car wash with the app open on their phone, the wash will recognize the license plate and give a green light to proceed into the wash.

Source: Business Wire
WhiteWater Express Car Wash, a multi-location car wash operator headquartered in Houston and backed by SkyKnight Capital, announced its merger with Legends Express Car Wash. The strategic merger creates a car wash platform with 15 locations in Houston, Dallas, Austin and Tulsa.

Source: Naples Daily News
Ground was broken earlier this year on the Brickyard Car Wash, a fully automatic express car wash in the Naples area. Plus, EECON has a Luv-A-Wash car wash project in the works – a 100-foot express tunnel with free vacuums.

Source: Harvard Business Review
Becoming a better leader requires follow-through, which requires emotional courage. This is the willingness to feel the hard feelings that come when we take risks, break old patterns, and try new ways of acting. They become better leaders because they follow through on what they know.

Source: World Economic Forum
There are certain qualities that leaders should always embody, such as integrity, persistence and objectivity. But there are also other strengths required at different times. The following characteristics are critical for leading through disruption.

Source: Small Business Trends
Nearly 3 of every 4 small businesses plans to invest in social media marketing this year. That finding stands out in a new survey from The Manifest. It’s called How Small Businesses Use Digital Marketing Channels in 2019.

Source: Fox Business
As a small-business owner or manager, you have to be more clever than your counterparts at bigger firms. The good news is that you won't have to deal with the roadblocks and red tape that are often in the way at big firms.