The seven companies will be relocated to the Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility when it opens in 2023.
Starting with Airport Van Rental near LAX, and ending at Midway Car Rental in West LA, Auto Rental News' editors and publisher talked with car rental operators about their operations, unique problems, and future in the rental industry.
Turo maintains that its platform is a technology company, not a rental car agency, and therefore should not be subject to the airport taxes and fees that traditional car rental companies pay.
The eccentric event sees teams race from a starting point to an end location, with the winning team receiving "a golden gas pump and $500 in loose change."
UCLA's Institute for Transportation Studies analyzed 1,700 Lyft, Uber, and taxi rides to measure wait times and ride cancellations against racial, ethnic, and gender demographics.
Now celebrating its 10-year anniversary, Platinum Car Rental Founder and CEO Sam Telikyan reflects on starting his company in the 2008 Great Recession, and muses on what it has yet to achieve.
The Consolidated Rent-a-Car facility will house rental car agencies in one facility and will be the eastern terminus for the Automated People Mover train system.
The Automated People Mover is the centerpiece of the Landside Access Modernization Program (LAMP), which also includes a Consolidated Rent-a-Car ConRAC facility.
The pilot program is awaiting final approval and signature of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
A modified 1989 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am is available for daily rental in Los Angeles.