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Senator Boxer demands car rental companies stop renting recalled vehicles
89.3 KPCC
A car pulls out of the Enterprise car rental lot at the Fort
Lauderdale/Hollywood International airport July 10, 2007 in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida. The next time you rent a car, you'll want to check the
manufacturer's safety recall records because some ...
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Daimler Battling BMW Floods Berlin With Smarts for Rent
Bloomberg
Daimler AG (DAI) is flooding Berlin with Smart cars to claim a greater
share of Europe's burgeoning rent- by-the-minute urban auto market. The
maker of Mercedes-Benz cars installed the largest fleet of its Car2go
short-term rental service in the German ...
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Novel defence flops in car-rental suit
Montreal Gazette
A woman sued by a car-rental company for $24139 in damages to one of its
vehicles had a novel defence: the company shouldn't have rented to her in
the first place because her driver's licence was suspended. The defence did
not impress Quebec Court ...
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The strangest things found in rental cars
News24
We all tend to forget things in other peoples cars at some point. Whether
it be a phone, a pack of cigarettes, wallet or a picture of your cat it's
bound to happen and there's nothing wrong with that. Imagine what the
people who work at car rental ...
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Car rental companies putting drivers in unsafe cars?
FoxReno.com
Some rental car companies are being called criminal today for putting
consumers in potentially unsafe vehicles. US Senator Barbara Boxer is
demanding rental cars under a safety recall be fixed, or pulled from lots
before they're rented or sold.
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Why Do We Tax Car-Sharing Like It's Liquor or Cigarettes?
The Atlantic Cities
Rental-car taxes are a boon for big cities. They extract hefty
contributions to local coffers from the constituents least likely to
complain about it: out-of-towners. And they come in a variety of ingenious
forms, as regular taxes, but also airport ...
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Daimler Battling BMW Floods Berlin With Smarts
BusinessWeek
The maker of Mercedes-Benz cars installed the largest fleet of its Car2go
short-term rental service in the German capital last month, overwhelming
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW)'s DriveNow offerings two-to-one. The
pursuit of Berlin drivers is part ...
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Enterprise Rent-A-Car drives up turnover
Insider Media
By Kaleigh Watterson Hire car business Enterprise Rent-A-Car has posted a
boost in turnover to more than £400m in its latest results. But the
Egham-based company has reported a 75 per cent fall in pre-tax profits as
its profit margins fell.
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Darlington's backstretch looms for Danica Patrick
ESPN
Business commitments aside, she would rather have been 102 miles southeast
in rural South Carolina, coaxing a rental car toward the backstretch wall
at Darlington Raceway in preparation for Saturday night's Southern 500. Or
peering out the passenger ...
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Avis Budget Group Marks Milestone of Honoring 500 Customer Experience Owners
MarketWatch (press release)
Introduced in North America last year, the CEO program celebrates team
members, including agency operators, dealers and licensees as well as
employees, who have been praised by Avis Car Rental, Budget Car Rental and
Budget Truck Rental customers for ...
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=== Blogs - 1 new result for [rental car] ===
Did renting a car make traveling easier in St. Martin? | Caribbean ...
By Alice_Chen
Hi everyone, My best friend and I are traveling to St. Martin for 3 days in
June and we are wondering if renting a car would really make traveling
easier on the island. Since it's such a small place, I thought maybe taking
the taxi or walking/biking ...
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=== Web - 1 new result for [rental car] ===
Rental Car Firms Struggle To Increase Corporate Rates - Business ...
Try as they might, rental car firms this year have struggled to increase
rates on corporate clients, with commercial pricing down by as much as 5
percent year ...
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