Rental Car Recall Repair Practices
A Force to Fix Rental Car Policy
By Janie Lorber
Roll Call Staff
Feb. 27, 2012, Midnight
For months, Enterprise Rent-A-Car has been fighting legislation that would make it illegal to rent vehicles that have been recalled by their manufacturers.
But it only took 48 hours for a Change.org petition to force Enterprise, the industry’s most powerful lobbying force and biggest political donor, to the bargaining table.
Hertz agrees to government oversight of recalled cars
In the face of an industrywide safety investigation, the nation’s second-biggest rental car company has taken the rare step of asking for government regulation to ensure that autos under recall are fixed before they’re rented.
Hertz has struck an agreement with safety advocates to ask Congress to put recall oversight of the industry under the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., say they plan to introduce legislation to do that after Congress reconvenes later this month.
Mother launches petition against Enterprise
Joplin Independent
2/22/2012
Campaign Aimed at Hazardous Rental Cars Shifts into High Gear
By Ben Kelley
August 9, 2011
A long-standing threat to rental car customers from unrepaired defective cars – an issue that received virtually no attention until early this year – has now become the focus of a sweeping federal legislative proposal to end that threat. Thus, in a brief six months, what started as an obscure court case in California has grown into a national initiative, supported by a cross-section of consumer advocacy groups, to insure the safety of millions of people who rent cars for business or pleasure.
Schumer Introduces Bill That Would Ban Rental Car Companies From Renting Recalled Vehicles To Consumersf
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 28, 2011 SCHUMER INTRODUCES BILL THAT WOULD BAN RENTAL CAR COMPANIES FROM RENTING RECALLED VEHICLES TO CONSUMERS Consumers Union Letter on California Rental Car Bill June 21, 2011June 21, 2011 Senator Noreen Evans, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dear Senator Evans, Are Rental Car Companies Renting Recalled Cars?By WKBW News Rental Car Firms Taking a Wrong Turn on Recall BillBy Ben Kelley 4/21/11 What began as a simple bill to assure that car rental companies in California provide defect-free cars to their customers has become ensnarled in a full-out campaign by those companies to kill the bill as it moves through the state’s legislature. Ironically, the bill does nothing more than require the rental companies to do what they claim they already do in “the vast majority” of cases. Faced With Recalls, Rental Companies Sometimes Decide to WaitBy Christopher Jensen 4/19/11 Several major rental car companies have told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that in some cases they continue to rent vehicles that have been recalled if they believe the problem is not serious. The companies said they were faced with so many recalls it was difficult for them to determine what a Hertz executive called “a true safety recall.”
But as N.H.T.S.A. sees it, there is no such thing as an unimportant recall.
Safety Agency Widens Inquiry into Repairs of Rental CarsBy Christopher Jensen In an expansion of its investigation into whether millions of rental cars are repaired quickly enough, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is demanding that major rental car companies quickly provide detailed information about their safety operations. The investigation began late last year with the agency saying it was troubled by reports of injuries and deaths in unrepaired rental cars. |