Service automobiles, buses, trucks, boats, and other automotive or marine vehicles with fuel, lubricants, and accessories. Collect payment for services and supplies. May lubricate vehicle, change motor oil, install antifreeze, or replace lights or other accessories, such as windshield wiper blades or fan belts. May repair or replace tires.
U.S. Workers
98,270
Median Salary
$34,850
10-Year Growth
-1.0%
Annual Openings
14,400
Typical entry: No formal educational credential
15 of 15 tasks have some AI capability
Exposure Trend
This score reflects estimated AI technical capability for tasks in this occupation. It does not predict employment changes, and it does not account for company-specific constraints, regulation, or adoption barriers.
Collect cash payments from customers and make change or charge purchases to customers' credit cards and provide customers with receipts.
AI: Fully automatable - Full: point-of-sale kiosks, payment terminals, and mobile payment systems can fully collect cash/card payments, provide change or process charges, and issue receipts.
Prepare daily reports of fuel, oil, and accessory sales.
AI: Fully automatable - Capturing sales data and generating daily reports is straightforward to fully automate with existing POS, inventory systems, and AI reporting tools.
Maintain customer records and follow up periodically with telephone, mail, or personal reminders of services due.
AI: Fully automatable - Maintaining records and performing periodic follow‑ups is fully automatable with CRM systems and AI‑driven messaging/voice tools.
Provide customers with information about local roads or highways.
AI: Fully automatable - AI and mapping/traffic services can fully provide up-to-date route, map, and traffic information to customers.
Check tire pressure and levels of fuel, motor oil, transmission, radiator, battery, or other fluids, adding air or fluids as required.
AI: Partial - Partial: tire-pressure sensors and automated air stations can handle inflation and some sensors detect fluid levels, but automated comprehensive checking and topping of multiple fluids remains limited.
Clean windshields.
AI: Partial - Automated car‑wash and window‑cleaning devices can handle many windshields, but detailed or atypical cleaning tasks still require human attention.
Perform minor repairs, such as adjusting brakes, replacing spark plugs, or changing engine oil or filters.
AI: Partial - Partial: controlled, repetitive minor repairs can be mechanized in specialized settings, but the dexterity, variability across vehicle models, and diagnostic judgment needed prevent full automation as of 2025.
Clean parking areas, offices, restrooms, or equipment and remove trash.
AI: Partial - Cleaning and trash removal are physical, variable tasks where robotic systems and scheduling software can handle portions but cannot fully replace human flexibility and judgment by 2025.
Order stock and price and shelve incoming goods.
AI: Partial - Ordering and pricing are readily automated by inventory/AI systems, but the physical task of shelving incoming goods still requires human or non‑ubiquitous robotic labor.
Activate fuel pumps and fill fuel tanks of vehicles with gasoline or diesel fuel to specified levels.
AI: Partial - Pump activation and monitoring can be automated, but the physical insertion/removal of the nozzle and safety/exception handling limit full automation by 2025.
Sell and install accessories, such as batteries, windshield wiper blades, fan belts, bulbs, or headlamps.
AI: Partial - AI can fully automate sales and recommendations, but physical installation of accessories remains a manual task in most settings and is not universally automated by 2025.
Grease and lubricate vehicles or specified units, such as springs, universal joints, or steering knuckles, using grease guns or spray lubricants.
AI: Partial - Greasing and lubricating are routine but physical and context‑sensitive tasks where some specialized equipment exists but full autonomous execution is not generally available.
Test and charge batteries.
AI: Partial - Battery testing and charging can be largely automated by diagnostic equipment and chargers, but connecting, handling, and abnormal cases typically need human involvement.
Rotate, test, and repair or replace tires.
AI: Partial - Tire testing and some automated machines exist, yet rotation and repair/replacement involve manual dexterity and variable conditions that prevent full automation in typical shops.
Operate car washes.
AI: Partial - Automated car wash systems exist and can be AI-controlled, but AI alone cannot yet handle all physical exceptions, maintenance, and on-site interventions without human support.