According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), starting today rental car agencies must fix any and all open safety defects before renting out vehicles to customers.
This article in the March/April 2016 issue misstated a provision to ground a rental vehicle.
Before the enactment of the Safe Rental Car Act, our industry needs guidance on the ambiguous areas of the law, and NHTSA needs to enact common sense fixes to allow our industry to fully comply and protect the public.
As the recall bill becomes law, car rental operators are tasked with interpreting it, solving compliance issues, and managing recall identification and repair processes.
As the recall bill comes closer to law, learn more about how this law could impact your rental car operation.
The recall bill will become law on June 1, 2016. The law exempts companies with rental or loaner fleets of fewer than 35 vehicles.
The Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act was signed into law on Dec. 4 as part of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (H.R. 22).
The American Car Rental Association (ACRA) commended the House and Senate conferees for including The Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act in the federal highway bill conference report filed yesterday.
The American Car Rental Association (ACRA) opposes the amendment that exempts car dealers from grounding recalled vehicles in their rental fleets.
The Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee did not approve Section 4209, an amendment for rental recalls in the S. 1732 bill: Comprehensive Transportation and Consumer Protection Act of 2015.
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