{"id":20263,"date":"2026-03-27T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/?p=20263"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:29:24","slug":"listen-back-vra-member-meeting-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/listen-back-vra-member-meeting-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen back \u2013 VRA member meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 26 March 2026 at Bruntingthorpe Leicestershire \u2013 Vehicle grading, car and van market update<\/p>\r\n<p><br \/>1. Sarah Marley, general manager, Manheim Vehicle Services and Michael Stewart, Director, business development &amp; growth, Cox Automotive Europe<br \/>2. Jonathan Butler, VRA counsel and partner, Dispute Resolution Midlands, Geldards: FCA redress scheme update (00:15:03).<br \/>3. Gavin Shone, head of operations, Openlane: The future for grading (00:27:02).<br \/>4. Connor O&#8217;Boyle, co-founder, TradeBid: The US vehicle grading experience (00:39:40).<br \/>5. Grading panel discussion: Gavin Shone, head of operations, Openlane; Connor O&#8217;Boyle, co-founder, TradeBid; Stuart Coppard, head of inspections excellence, Manheim and Fran Bleasdale, UK sales director, BCA (00:54:08).<br \/>6. Jon Taylor, national business development manager and Abi McCabe, national client strategy manager, Autorola UK: New and used car market update (01:31:02).<br \/>7. Emily Morgan, commercial vehicle forecast manager, cap hpi: New and used van market update &#8211; (01:45:08).<br \/>8. Paul Kirby, eLCV expert, EV Essentials: The latest developments in the LCV sector (01:54:42).<br \/>9. Abi McCabe, national client strategy manager, Autorola UK; Emily Morgan, commercial vehicle forecast manager, cap hpi; and Paul Kirby, eLCV expert, EV Essentials (02:17:12).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The full recording of this meeting can be accessed anytime here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/VRA260326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/VRA260326<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 26 March 2026 at Bruntingthorpe Leicestershire \u2013 Vehicle grading, <a class=\"moretag btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/listen-back-vra-member-meeting-4\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":20264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20265,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20263\/revisions\/20265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}