QuickChat: Best Practices with the 2025 Best Repair Planner/Estimator, Will Barkley

Join us for a discussion about repair planning and estimating best practices with 2025 Best Repair Planner/Estimator Will Barkley, Collision Advice's Mike Anderson, and sponsors Andrew McInnes, of Ford Motor Co., and Tom Wolf, of PPG.

Oct. 27, 2025

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Join Collision Advice's Mike Anderson and award sponsors Ford Motor Co.'s Andrew McInnes and PPG's Tom Wolf in congratulating 2025 Best Repair Planner/Estimator Award winner Will Barkley. Andrew and Tom discuss how they're helping ensure safe and proper repairs, Mike talks about best practices, and Will describes his winning approach to repair planning!

Will is the production manager of K&M Collision in Hickory, North Carolina. Read more about how he approaches repair planning of some of the shop’s most sophisticated vehicles here.