Sign up for the Automotive State of the Union Daily Email: asotu.be/daily-subscribe After watching the same bad vehicles circulate through auctions, one independent dealer decided to build the solution himself. Dealer Defender is tackling one of the biggest challenges facing independent auto dealers: wholesale arbitration and the lack of transparency in vehicle auctions. In this episode of Auto Collabs, Travis Baldwin, President of the Indiana Independent Auto Dealer Association and co-owner of Best Deal Auto Sales, shares how a real dealership problem led to building a technology platform designed to make wholesale transactions more transparent and accountable. After years of watching vehicles with unresolved issues move through multiple auctions under green-light conditions, Travis and a team of fellow dealers developed Dealer Defender to crowdsource arbitration data and give dealers greater visibility into a vehicle's wholesale history. The conversation explores how impro...