Alliance Inspection Management (AiM), the nation’s largest commercial vehicle inspection company, is now making its commercial used vehicle inspection services available to individual used vehicle buyers and sellers with a comprehensive 150-point pre-purchase car inspection available nationwide.

Buyers know a useful test-drive is crucial in finding the best value in a used car. But few know how to perform an examination that will separate the good from the mediocre. Instead, most used-car shoppers just motor around a bit and listen to the sound system. However, if you employ the following test-driving techniques I've learned from years of being a professional driver, you'll have a better chance of separating clunkers from keepers, and find a safe, reliable used car.

No piece of car buying advice is more often ignored than this: Have a mechanic inspect a used car before you buy it. Why do buyers plunk down thousands of dollars on a car with little more than an around-the-block test-drive and a glance under the hood? Three reasons deter car buyers from taking this vital step:

Alliance Inspection Management, Inc. (AiM), today announced an agreement with Ford Motor Credit Company to assume nationwide responsibility for floorplan audits at dealerships with wholesale financing from Ford Credit and to conduct lease-end inspections of vehicles financed through Ford Credit. Ford Credit employees previously handled these functions.

SAM CASARELLA was in Queens, poking his nose under the hood and trunk floor of a white 2005 Infiniti G35x with a yellow deodorizer in the shape of a Christmas tree hanging from the rearview mirror.

LONG BEACH, Calif. – ( March 7, 2007) – Tokio Marine, part of the $32 billion Millea Holdings, Inc., has acquired a 15 percent interest in Alliance Inspection Management (AIM), a national, independent third-party inspection company.

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Of the 15 million to 17 million new cars sold every year in the United States, roughly 10 million are inspected by one Long Beach-based company.

AiM expects an increase of off lease inspection to increase by 20 percent compared to the prior year.

By CHERYL JENSEN
Published: July 13, 2008

Jim Yates, president and CEO of Alliance Inspection Management (AiM), has been named a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award in the Greater Los Angeles area. 

LONG BEACH Calif. - Alliance Inspection Management (AiM) is pleased to be named a 2007 Mobile Enterprise Magazine best field service award winner. 

LONG BEACH, Calif.-- Alliance Inspection Management (AIM) has joined the National Auto Auction Association (NAAA) .

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veteran automotive executive Jim Murphy joined Alliance Inspection Management – AIM today as vice-president and Chief Financial Officer. The announcement was made by AIM CEO Jim Yates.

Newly formed Alliance Inspections Management (AIM) is driving change in the vehicle inspection industry.  Its mission includes increasing quality, inspector training, and IT solutions.