Re:Hertz sold a bunch of Teslas and it turns out they're all...
by JumpCrisscross on Thursday May 16, 2024 @07:51PM
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Rental car companies’ operations are in their own universe of fucked. (Friend in a senior role at one of them.) Two stories:
Cars keep getting stolen. Insurance asks for evidence they were stolen, not lost. Lot has no cameras. Solution? Cease and desist the insurance company. Insurer drops them, they get a new insurer. Still no camera!
Moving cars between lots is done one by one by employees. To move two cars between two lots, they’d send two employees in two cars, leave one car, and then drive back to pick up the next one. They do this if two cars need to be moved or five hundred. Apparently capital expenditures are highly scrutinised while operating costs are not.
Cars keep getting stolen. Insurance asks for evidence they were stolen, not lost. Lot has no cameras. Solution? Cease and desist the insurance company. Insurer drops them, they get a new insurer. Still no camera!
Moving cars between lots is done one by one by employees. To move two cars between two lots, they’d send two employees in two cars, leave one car, and then drive back to pick up the next one. They do this if two cars need to be moved or five hundred. Apparently capital expenditures are highly scrutinised while operating costs are not.