Just after the second quarter of 2014, Auto Remarketing reported that a couple of the nation’s largest auto groups were having some challenges acquiring the skilled labor they needed to help fuel the automotive market’s current renaissance.

Half a year later, it appears as though this will continue to be an ongoing hurdle for the car business, including companies like Asbury Automotive Group, which shared its latest quarterly and full-year earnings results this week.

Craig Monaghan, the company’s president and chief executive officer, touched on the subject of skilled labor during Asbury’s quarterly conference call on Wednesday.

“We as an industry could use more technicians and (at) Asbury we feel that pressure, as well,” Monaghan said. “The constraints in our stores are not bays or stalls or lifts; the constraints are technicians.”

While many dealer groups do their best to attract and retain highly skilled laborers to fill their recall-fueled service departments, there is still an incredible shortage. The next best step is to source talent from local institutions and to invest in training for current employees.

“We’ve got a number of programs in place to help us meet the demands in our stores,” Monaghan said. “We work with a lot of local community colleges. A lot of students will go to school and also work part time in our stores. We’ve recently initiated our own technical institute, if you would, where we’re training employees in a standalone training center that we’ve put together. So I would say it’s an ongoing challenge, but it’s something that we’ve been able to manage our way through, and I think we’ll continue to manage through it in the future.”

In other Asbury news, similar to AutoNation’s response earlier this week, the company’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, David Hult, says pricing in the used market appears stable for the time being.

“We don’t see any issue with our pricing right now, we see it maintaining.” Hult said. “I can’t speak for how the year’s going to go but current market conditions and what we saw in the fourth quarter, prices remain strong in all markets. There was a little bit of movement in ’14 in the compact segment but the rest of the segments remain strong.”