Christopher Otts

So lots of people are trying to bring a more modern digital e-commerce type experience to buying a new car.

Yeah.

I think in a lot of ways, change is here.

Basically, the forces of digital and e-commerce keep trying to breach these gates.

But yeah, I do think it's way too early to ring the bell on

traditional car dealerships and they will tell you that they think that a lot of people still do want to touch and feel the car in person right and that they're working on ways to make it like a less intimidating experience some have different sales models you know some don't have commissioned salespeople like there there are experiments out there but the degree to which this system can be breached is really the question

Farley's comment gave the impression, or at least some people interpreted it this way, that, wow, $120,000 jobs, and we just don't have enough people who went to trade school and know how to turn wrenches?

What is wrong with our country?

You know, it was almost like this moralistic reaction.

But our colleague Chris says that when you actually look at what the job entails... It is not hard to understand why there is a shortage of automotive technicians when you drill into it and understand what it takes to be able to do this job.

So I really wanted to help people understand why this profession can be so lucrative, but how hard and tenuous it is to get there.

Showed up about 7 a.m.

It was still kind of dark outside, kind of cold, and come in the shop, and, you know, it is an automotive repair shop.

You know, it's kind of dingy.

You know, it is well lit.

And there's like maybe seven bays on one side, seven bays on the other.

So I ordered a transmission for this.

It needs a whole new transmission.

Yeah.

Okay.