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• Budget Rent A Car System, Inc. today announced an exclusive partnership to offer readers and renters a way to 'Travel Large for Less'
  Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine and Budget Rent A Car System, Inc. today announced an exclusive partnership to offer readers and renters a way to 'Travel Large for Less'.
  Author: James Potter - Date: June 23, 2004



• Budget Survey Shows Many People Opt For a Rental Car
  For leisure get-aways, consumers often look beyond their garages for vacation transportation, according to a new survey conducted by Budget Rent A Car. Survey results from over 500 respondents, qualified as leisure renters, showed that a surprising 39 percent said they rented their leisure get-away vehicles from a downtown or suburban rental location near their home.
  Author: James Potter - Date: June 23, 2004



• Budget Travel Teams Up With Budget Rent A Car To Offer Tips For 'Traveling Large For Less'
  Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel magazine and Budget Rent A Car System, Inc. today announced an exclusive partnership to offer readers and renters a way to 'Travel Large for Less'.
  Author: James Potter - Date: June 23, 2004



• Orbitz For Business Offers Car Rental Discounts Through Agreement With Avis, Budget And Hertz
  Orbitz for Business, a leading online travel management program, continues its pledge to help businesses cut travel costs by offering corporate customers discounted rates on car rentals through a new agreement with Avis, Budget and Hertz.
  Author: Carla Bloomberg - Date: June 22, 2004



• Book a United Airlines Flight and Get a Free Car Rental Day
  United Airlines today announced that customers who purchase a flight on united.com will earn a free rental day from Hertz with a three-day minimum car rental reservation. In addition, customers will earn 50 Mileage Plus miles for each car rental day.
  Author: Levi Cobour - Date: February 26, 2004



• First Car Rental Agency to Adopt Electronic Signature Capture in Rental Contracts
  Orion Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce that The Hertz Corporation has rolled out Orion Systems' complete electronic contracts and signature capture software solution, Orion OnlineContracts, at Hertz' major airport and downtown car rental locations throughout the United States. While customers still receive a signed, paper rental agreement, Hertz is the first car rental company to adopt electronic signature capture and eliminate its own paper rental agreements to increase efficiency and reduce costs. By maintaining rental contracts electronically in a forge resistant, tamperproof format, Hertz eliminates the costs associated with paper, including shipping, scanning, databasing, and archiving.
  Author: Sergei Bergen - Date: February 26, 2004



• Hertz, The World's Largest Car Rental Company will Provide Service Called Travel Mate
  Hertz, the world's largest car rental company, has signed an agreement with Yeoman Navigation to provide it's mobile navigation service to Hertz' customers across the UK.
  Author: Levi Cobour - Date: February 26, 2004



• I.W.A. Brings Rental Car Company Workers Into Union Fold
  Local 2171 of the Industrial, Wood and Allied Workers of Canada received certification from the Labour Relations Board for 18 workers employed by Alamo Car Rental.
  Author: Allan Heineman - Date: February 25, 2004



• Auto-Rental Fleet Program of USI Rental Specialties
  G.M.I. Insurance Services of Valley Forge, PA, a leading managing general agent for transportation insurance nationwide, announced today that they have acquired the assets of the auto-rental fleet program of USI Rental Specialties of Irvine, CA. The acquisition further solidifies GMI’s status as one of the nation’s leading providers of insurance in the rental fleet industry. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
  Author: William Armstrong - Date: February 25, 2004



• Dollar Offers Rental Discount For Customers
  Dollar Rent A Car is offering customers an easy way to save money the next time they rent a car.
  Author: Jordan Strauss - Date: February 25, 2004



• Dollar Rent a Car to Allow Persons With Disabilities to Rent Cars
  Persons with disabilities will be able to rent cars from Dollar Rent A Car under an agreement reached today with the Justice Department.
  Author: Jordan Strauss - Date: February 25, 2004



• National Car Commercial To Be Shot In Akron
  The City of Akron and Greater Cleveland’s Film Commission announced that filming of a national car commercial would begin tomorrow in Akron on Route 59. We realize a little governmental cooperation with film and television companies can go a long way in bringing dollars and jobs to our area which otherwise would have gone elsewhere, said Mayor Donald Plusquellic.
  Author: Jordan Strauss - Date: February 25, 2004



• Better Business Bureau and Enterprise Rent-A-Car Business of the Year Awards
  The Better Business Bureau and Enterprise Rent-A-Car honor outstanding businesses in Oregon and Southwest Washington with the Business of the Year Awards program. Consumers are encouraged to nominate businesses with excellence in Customer Service, Community Involvement, and Innovative Business Practices.
  Author: Richard Moroz - Date: February 24, 2004



• Budget Car And Truck Rental Helps The Missing Children Society
  Missing Children Society of Canada, announced that Budget Rent a Car of Canada, a Canadian owned and operated company, has made the Missing Children Society of Canada one of its preferred charities and is donating car rental days to the Society’s investigators so that they can continue their active search for missing and runaway children throughout Canada.
  Author: Arnold Einstein - Date: February 24, 2004



• Operator Of Khartoum Auto Sales Fined For Falsifying Drive Clean Inspection Report
  Issahar Khan Jr., an operator of Khartoum Auto Sales on Danforth Road in Scarborough, has been fined $4,000 – plus a 25-percent victim fine surcharge – after pleading guilty to two counts involving the falsification of Drive Clean inspection reports.
  Author: Leonard Fischer - Date: February 23, 2004



• Taxpayers Association & ACTIF Launch Referendum Campaign To Repeal Car Rental Tax
  The Ohio Taxpayers Association and The Association For Car & Truck Rental Independents and Franchisees, Ohio’s statewide pro-taxpayer organization and the national vehicle rental association, have launched a petition drive to place a recently passed car rental tax on the Columbus ballot. If OTA and their allies are able to collect 3,900 valid signatures from Columbus voters, City Council must either repeal the tax or place it on the fall ballot for a public vote.
  Author: Leonard Fischer - Date: February 23, 2004



• Navy Federal Credit Union Names Enterprise Car Sales Preferred Provider
  Navy Federal Credit Union and Enterprise Car Sales, a division of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, have teamed up to provide Navy Federal members a new way to purchase quality used vehicles. Through this venture, which joins the world’s largest credit union with one of the leaders in the automotive industry, Navy Federal members will have direct access, by phone and the Internet, to Enterprise Car Sales locations nationwide.
  Author: Sam Hankook - Date: February 23, 2004



• Dream Car Exotic Rentals to begin offering Limousine Services throughout South Florida
  Dream Car Exotic Rentals and Larry's Private Car & Limo Service, South Florida's leading ground transportation company providing transportation, destination management services and interactive information to corporate and personal travel enthusiasts, today announced a multi-year affiliate partnership under which Larry's Private Car & Limo Service was named South Florida's exclusive provider of Dream Car Exotic Rental's daily rental of the worlds most exotic cars. In return, Dream Car Exotic Rentals shall offer Larry's Private Car & Limo Service's wide range of hourly and event limousine transportation services.
  Author: Adam Kravitz - Date: February 21, 2004



• EEOC Sues Alamo Car Rental For Religious Bias
  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission today announced the filing of a post-9/11 backlash discrimination lawsuit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against Alamo Car Rental, owned and operated by Ft. Lauderdale-based Alamo Rent-A-Car LLC and ANC Rental Corporation. The religious bias suit was filed by the federal agency's Phoenix District Office on behalf of a Muslim employee who was denied a workplace accommodation for her sincerely held Islamic religious beliefs and practices.
  Author: Phill Muller - Date: February 21, 2004



• Latest Expansion Project to Improve Rental Car Services
  To meet the growing needs of the region’s travel and tourism industry, Baltimore/Washington International Airport will open a new Consolidated Rental Car Facility. The facility centralizes the operations of eight different national rental car companies, creating a modern, efficient, and convenient system for getting travelers to and from their rental cars.
  Author: Phill Muller - Date: February 21, 2004



• Thrifty Car Rental Reopens In Richmond INT’L Airport
  Thrifty Car Rental, a subsidiary of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc., is reopening in-terminal at Richmond International Airport, after a year-and-a-half absence. Due to customer demand, the company will also reopen its downtown MCI Center location at 7th and G Streets in downtown Washington, D.C., it was announced today.
  Author: Adam Kravitz - Date: February 21, 2004



• AA-AUTO Publishes New Company Web Site
  AA-Auto Rental of Portsmouth published their new company web site this week, detailing a variety of car rental programs they offer to seacoast residents.
  Author: John Aschcroft - Date: March 12, 2006



• Auto Rental Industry Executive To Lead Abrams Consulting's European Expansion
  Neil Abrams, President of ABRAMS CONSULTING GROUP, INC., a leading specialized consulting and market research firm serving the global car rental, commercial fleet management/leasing, and allied travel and transportation industries, has announced that Geoff Corbett, an internationally recognized and respected industry veteran, has joined ACG as Managing Director of its Europe, Middle East, Africa Region. Corbett will be officed in Bookham, Surrey, a suburb of London. In explaining Corbett’s appointment, Abrams states, While our business presence in Europe was established several years ago, we have felt that it would take a well regarded and visible senior executive with significant global travel service experience to truly leverage the ABRAMS’ brand of highly professional, blue chip consulting and research services into the rapidly changing European marketplace. I am delighted and extremely enthused that a professional of Geoff’s caliber and expertise will be leading the ABRAMS CONSULTING INTERNATIONAL - EMEA business unit.
  Author: Jason Wong - Date: February 21, 2004



• Budget Rent A Car Of Beverly Hills Unveil Environmental Vehicle Fleet
  Budget Rent a Car of Beverly Hills and EV Rental Cars announce the opening of Beverly Hills first environmental vehicle fleet including hybrid and electric-powered vehicles.
  Author: John Aschcroft - Date: February 21, 2004



• Car Rental Companies Pay $185,000 in Settlements
  Hertz and National Car Rental have agreed to pay the Air Resources Board a total of $185,000 to settle claims made by ARB that each had rented autos within the State that did not meet California emission standards.
  Author: Jason Wong - Date: February 21, 2004



• Car-sharing company achieves geographic, socio-economic, environmental and technological milestones to become the largest provider in the region
  From Capitol Hill to Shady Grove to Columbia Heights, Flexcar members and Metro riders this week are celebrating the one-year anniversary of the car-sharing company’s regional service – an event that means solid success in the young industry. Having grown its D.C., Maryland and Virginia operations to more than 1,600 members and 32 vehicles, Flexcar is the largest and most geographically-diverse service provider in the area, as well as the nation.
  Author: David Murray - Date: February 21, 2004