AI exposure: Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians
Diagnose, inspect, adjust, repair, or overhaul recreational vehicles including travel trailers. May specialize in maintaining gas, electrical, hydraulic, plumbing, or chassis/towing systems as well as repairing generators, appliances, and interior components. Includes workers who perform customized van conversions.
Reading this score
computedAt 12.3% of weighted task load, Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians sits at the 19th percentile, below the point where a job's centre of gravity has moved. 80.0% of what this role does is untouched, meaning current systems cannot produce that work at all, whatever the commercial incentive.
What holds the line here is embodiment. Across this occupation's 17 tasks it averages 2.59 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work has to happen in physical space. A language model cannot move matter. Until the robotics to do this work is both good enough and cheap enough to deploy widely, capability in software does not reach it.
The most exposed thing this job does is Explain proper operation of vehicle systems to customers, at 73.3%. The least is Seal open sides of modular units to prepare them for shipment, at 0.0%. A gap of 73.3% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.
Within installation, maintenance and repair occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 13.8% across the group's 50 roles, with 27 scoring higher. Being in an exposed family does not make a particular job exposed, and the reverse holds too.
What would move this score. Of 17 tasks, 3 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 14 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take robotics cheap and reliable enough to deploy at scale, not a better language model. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.
Where the score comes from
judgedEvery task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.
| Dimension | Mean | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | 0.77 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 2.59 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.49 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.82 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.23 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.60 | 0-3 |
Task by task
17 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Explain proper operation of vehicle systems to customers. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.87 | exposed |
| List parts needed, estimate costs, and plan work procedures, using parts lists, technical manuals, or diagrams. | 57.4% | 25.9% | 16.7% | 4.10 | exposed |
| Confer with customers, read work orders, or examine vehicles needing repair to determine the nature and extent of damage. | 32.4% | 25.9% | 41.7% | 4.21 | exposed |
| Inspect, repair, or replace brake systems. | 11.7% | 13.3% | 75.0% | 4.14 | untouched |
| Examine or test operation of parts or systems to ensure completeness of repairs. | 10.0% | 15.0% | 75.0% | 4.33 | untouched |
| Open and close doors, windows, or drawers to test their operation, trimming edges to fit, as necessary. | 7.9% | 4.6% | 87.5% | 3.88 | untouched |
| Diagnose and repair furnace or air conditioning systems. | 5.8% | 6.7% | 87.5% | 4.42 | untouched |
| Inspect recreational vehicles to diagnose problems and perform necessary adjustment, repair, or overhaul. | 5.8% | 6.7% | 87.5% | 4.24 | untouched |
| Connect electrical systems to outside power sources, and activate switches to test the operation of appliances or light fixtures. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.34 | untouched |
| Repair plumbing or propane gas lines, using caulking compounds and plastic or copper pipe. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.31 | untouched |
| Locate and repair frayed wiring, broken connections, or incorrect wiring, using ohmmeters, soldering irons, tape, or hand tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.22 | untouched |
| Repair leaks with caulking compound or replace pipes, using pipe wrenches. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.14 | untouched |
| Connect water hoses to inlet pipes of plumbing systems, and test operation of toilets or sinks. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.12 | untouched |
| Remove damaged exterior panels, and repair and replace structural frame members. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.01 | untouched |
| Reset hardware, using chisels, mallets, and screwdrivers. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.94 | untouched |
| Refinish wood surfaces on cabinets, doors, moldings, or floors, using power sanders, putty, spray equipment, brushes, paints, or varnishes. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.67 | untouched |
| Seal open sides of modular units to prepare them for shipment, using polyethylene sheets, nails, and hammers. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.17 | untouched |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.
Occupations either side of this one
The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.
Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.
What this means in practice
Most of this work is not reachable by current systems, so the immediate pressure is on the administrative edges of the role rather than its core: the scheduling, the reporting, the written records. That is where time is recovered.