On June 23, 2025, Barrie Charapp Beaty published “Barrie: A 2025 Compliance Quiz” on the VADA blog—a thought-provoking exercise aimed squarely at dealership leadership and compliance teams. We at Charapp & Weiss believe that this quiz isn’t just a test—it’s a lens revealing where gaps in your dealership’s policies, training, and practices could leave you vulnerable. (A 2025 Compliance Quiz)
Quiz Topics That Hit the Hard Spots
The quiz covers a spectrum of critical areas, including:
- Sales Practices – It challenges assumptions about arbitration agreements, fair lending training, spot delivery retention practices, and whether abandoning attempts to locate a vehicle justifies classifying it as stolen—highlighting behavior that could trigger legal challenges. (A 2025 Compliance Quiz)
- Advertising Accuracy – The quiz goes beyond fair lending, touching upon truthful, compliant advertising—particularly around APR disclosures and trigger-term requirements (though the quiz itself spans other compliance areas too).
- Employment Practices – It questions misuse of employee handbooks, the limits on credit checks in hiring, harassment complaint retaliation, and pay plan clarity.
- Operational Controls & Privacy – Cases include issues like recording outbound calls without consent and misunderstanding the overlap—or lack thereof—between FTC privacy and safeguards requirements.
Why This Matters—Especially Now
If your dealership isn’t regularly testing its compliance awareness across departments—sales, F&I, HR, operations—you could be overlooking serious risks.
- Legal Exposure: Missteps in any of these areas can trigger enforcement actions, lawsuits, or regulatory fines.
- Reputation Risk: A single error—like mishandling a spot delivery or misrepresenting APR terms—can damage trust internally and externally.
- Missed Prevention Opportunities: Early identification of gaps allows you to fix your systems before they fail under pressure.
At Charapp & Weiss, we encourage our dealer clients to treat this quiz as more than an intellectual exercise. Use it as a springboard to assess your own policies, training programs, and internal communications.
Three Quick Steps You Can Take Now
- Take the quiz yourself, answer honestly, and then download and compare your answers with the provided answer key. (A 2025 Compliance Quiz)
- Host a dealership-wide compliance roundtable, pulling in your general counsel (if in-house), risk management lead, compliance officer, and managers, then review the quiz together.
- Use the quiz questions to trigger internal audits or gap analyses in:
- Arbitration and fair lending policies
- Spot delivery and manual retention practices
- Hiring protocols and employee handbook disclosures
- Recording practices and data privacy controls
Final Thoughts from Charapp & Weiss
Compliance isn’t static. It requires continuous reinforcement—especially when staff turnover, shifting legal standards, or sales goals threaten the integrity of your operations.
The “2025 Compliance Quiz” by Barrie Charapp Beaty is a timely, accessible tool, free for every dealership. We strongly recommend revisiting your answers, comparing them with best practices, and taking concrete corrective actions where needed.
Read the full article “Barrie: A 2025 Compliance Quiz” (June 23, 2025) directly on VADA’s blog. (A 2025 Compliance Quiz)
Need help translating any of these questions into training modules, internal audits, or your own dealership policies? Contact Charapp & Weiss—we’re here to help ensure your compliance is not only informative, but resilient.