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Car Rental Q&A: How to Harness Social Media, Prevent Customer Profiling and Deal with Floods of New Applicants

Auto Rental News and industry professionals answer your questions about car rental trends, techniques and other current issues.

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Closing the Customer/Associate Perception Gap

Through an industry survey, more than 600 customers and car rental associates share their perceptions of the car rental experience. Do your frontline team members’ views match what your customers are thinking?

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Five Truths About Angry Customers

Understand why customers get angry and empower your frontline associates and managers with techniques to manage them.

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“Partner” Drives Off in Another Man’s Rental

Police seek man who drove off in a rental car after claiming he was the “partner” of the man whose name was on the contract.

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Former Rental Car Clerk a Key Witness in Double Murder Case

She was reported to have used her employee discount at the request of her boyfriend.

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Smarter Hiring: Reducing the Insider Threat

To ensure a thorough background screening process, consider these five points.

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Surviving the Car Rental Climate Change

The economic storm of 2008-2009 is causing shifts in the auto rental industry both in front of and behind the rental counter. Can you adjust to new market conditions and take advantage of this opportunity, or will you simply try to weather the storm?

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Car Rental Operations: Five Areas You Can Improve on Now

While dismal economic conditions may be out of our hands, there are things you can control to help your team post higher results and weather the current marketplace.

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Best Practices: Handling the Accident Claim

“I was just in an accident. What do I do?” Have you reinforced your procedures for handling a renter in a damaged vehicle lately?

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Immeasurable Intuition in Employee Performance

You have the tools to measure utilization, holding costs and RPU. But how do you manage an employee with the attitude, “it’s just a rental car?”

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Which Hybrids Pay Back the Quickest?

After five years and 15,000 miles of driving per year, are there any hybrids that actually have a lower cost of ownership than their gas-engine counterparts? One unexpected vehicle takes the prize.

How Far Will Cell Phone Bans Go?

The federal government means business with its new law banning cell phone use while driving commercial vehicles. Can the laws go even further, and how should fleets react?

Righting a Wrong in Arizona

Arizona is one of a super minority of states in which auto rental companies are required by statute to pay for the negligent acts of their renters. Look for new legislation in the coming weeks that proposes to change that.

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