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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.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Diagnose and repair furnace or air conditioning systems.Mostly human for now
- 02Connect electrical systems to outside power sources, and activate switches to test the operation of appliances or light fixtures.Mostly human for now
- 03Examine or test operation of parts or systems to ensure completeness of repairs.Mostly human for now
- 04Repair plumbing or propane gas lines, using caulking compounds and plastic or copper pipe.Mostly human for now
- 05Inspect recreational vehicles to diagnose problems and perform necessary adjustment, repair, or overhaul.Mostly human for now
- 06Locate and repair frayed wiring, broken connections, or incorrect wiring, using ohmmeters, soldering irons, tape, or hand tools.Mostly human for now
- 07Confer with customers, read work orders, or examine vehicles needing repair to determine the nature and extent of damage.Mostly human for now
- 08Repair leaks with caulking compound or replace pipes, using pipe wrenches.Mostly human for now
- 09Inspect, repair, or replace brake systems.Mostly human for now
- 10Connect water hoses to inlet pipes of plumbing systems, and test operation of toilets or sinks.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
6%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 54% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 45% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Diagnose and repair furnace or air conditioning systems.
- Connect electrical systems to outside power sources, and activate switches to test the operation of appliances or light fixtures.
- Examine or test operation of parts or systems to ensure completeness of repairs.