In my automotive department, we do monthly inspections on all the college vehicles except the big
busses. When I hand one of my students the job of inspecting a vehicle, it’s interesting to note how serious some
of them are about doing a really good job and how totally bored some of them are at having to run through the
inspection checklist on a car we just inspected the previous month. But vehicle inspections are like insurance, and
we should see them from that perspective. We do them to prevent dangerous or expensive failures.