Did You Know? 2013-06-28

In 1916 two brothers in Omaha, Nebraska, ran an ad offering a Ford for rent with or without a driver for $0.10 per mile with a 3 mile minimum In 1922 Walter Jacobs opened a car rental business in Chicago with a dozen Model Ts and sold the company in …

What are my rights if my car rental company is overbooked?

As with hotels, car rental companies must deal with last minute cancellations and no shows and also with renters who do not return vehicles at the agreed upon time. To cope with this the vendors deliberately overbook using a complex formula of historical information. Occasionally though, things don’t come out …