McGinnis has a strict privacy policy and never rents or shares the list, period, so it is very low maintenance to sign up.

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When the license period expires, customers can sign up for maintenance and service contracts at a lower fee.

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Some are hard charging, known for pressing, even bullying customers to sign on for additional products or extended service and maintenance agreements.

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Employer-clients like Boeing, Citigroup, Pfizer and Microsoft sign contracts in which they agree to pay everything from construction costs to ongoing maintenance in return for on-site child care services for their employees' children. (Often, these employer "sponsors" will also subsidize the parents' tuition.) Under certain "cost-plus" contracts, the employer-sponsors will even shoulder some of the care center's risk in exchange for more control of the operations.

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But aside from that year, this industry has aggregately experienced healthy growth, a sign that consumers continue to invest money in their current vehicles, either as repairs or preventative maintenance.

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