Preventative Maintenance

In the world of maintenance for vehicles especially in commercial fleets, there are two opposing ideologies for maintaining vehicles. There is preventative maintenance and breakdown maintenance. Preventative maintenance is when vehicles are routinely inspected, lubed, and worn parts replaced before they fail, and breakdown maintenance is when you simply run the vehicle until it literally breaks down and fix it then. Obviously, breakdown maintenance is the more costly, time-consuming, and dangerous of the two. Many tragic vehicle accidents have been attributed to a lack of maintenance.