Advance Auto Service opened its doors in 1985 and provides repair work on foreign and domestic cars, trucks and trailers. While lacking a logo, sign or other formal business officiality, it claims to be the only truck and trailer repair shop in the Orange area doing every kind of service work on vehicles, trucks and trailers, except body work, which is subcontracted to other entities. Aside from repair and maintanance work, the company participates in Touch-a-Truck held yearly in West Haven, and is the sponsor of the construction of a handicap playground in the Orange area.