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Rental Operationsby Bill PackardJune 8, 2020

Personal Interaction Still Matters

While app-based and contactless rentals have increased during this pandemic, your customers still want and need to engage at your location. How well you interact sets your business apart.

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Rental Operationsby Chris BrownJune 2, 2020

U-Save Operator Takes to the Skies for PPE Deliveries

During the pandemic slowdown, Tom Mellett has been trading the car rental desk for his single-engine plane: “It gives me time to reflect on what we should be grateful for.”

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Rental Operationsby StaffMay 29, 2020

Car Rental in Recovery: Don’t Chase Bad Business

Operators shouldn’t change normal procedures because they’re starting to feel the pressure to make tires roll.

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Rental Operationsby StaffMay 24, 2020

Renting to the Road Trip Customer

With the return of the Great American Road Trip, here are steps car rental operators can take to meet these travelers’ needs and protect their fleet.

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Telematicsby Hari SripathiMay 22, 2020

How Will Waymo Monetize Autonomy?

The largest windfalls from autonomous services won’t come from making driverless cars or advertising in them. Look instead to what Google does best when disrupting and democratizing technology.

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Rental Operationsby Ammar AkhtarMay 4, 2020

COVID-19 and Car Rental: Challenges from a Platform’s View

The founder of a car rental marketplace serving UAE shares the lessons he is learning from the COVID-19 pandemic, and what he believes the car rental industry in general can learn too.

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Fleet Insuranceby Bill TierneyApril 22, 2020

Insurance and Car Rental: Don’t Let a Crisis Go to Waste

Insurance companies are making a lot of accommodations that would previously have been unheard of and you’ll never know if you don’t ask.

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Green Fleetby Chris BrownApril 14, 2020

Eight Viewpoints on Mobility Post Coronavirus

We asked eight experts from the travel, transportation, and mobility spectrums: Will the pandemic accelerate certain mobility options, or will latent hesitancies exist from a health/safety standpoint that will dampen the market for a long time?

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by Chris BrownMarch 31, 2020

Predicting the Evolution of Mobility Options in the Pandemic Recovery

Right now, a card on the dash saying “this vehicle has been hygienically cleaned” means a lot more than a five-star user rating. Looking past the pandemic, this brief cessation of non-essential travel might produce even greater change.

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Rental Operationsby Chris BrownFebruary 12, 2020

What’s Happening to Carsharing?

With high-profile closures and pullbacks in 2019, the North American carsharing market looks to new market opportunities. But can it grow past its traditional base?

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