The first is the consumer outreach. Our certified professionals are continuously asking us to do more to promote the ASE program to consumers and the involvement with NCTS gives ASE a national platform for brand exposure that we could never afford to do otherwise.

Vehicles are being built better and require less repair, so we've been getting by with a shrinking work force. But the number of cars in this country keeps increasing. There is definitely going to be more demand for automotive technicians when these large numbers start retiring.

Four-wheel drive, all-wheel drive ? what none of them do is transcend the laws of physics.