Rental Pass Card That Bypasses Paperwork?
 

Is there any kind of membership or club card you can buy for any rental car
company that lets you just show up, present the card, and drive away with
minimal hassle? The most objectionable thing to me about rental cars is
the amount of paperwork they make you fill out and the associated time.
How can you get some arrangement with the rental car company to cut down on
that?

--
W

Rental Pass Card That Bypasses Paperwork?
 

"W" wrote in message
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Is there any kind of membership or club card you can buy for any rental
car company that lets you just show up, present the card, and drive away
with minimal hassle? The most objectionable thing to me about rental
cars is the amount of paperwork they make you fill out and the associated
time. How can you get some arrangement with the rental car company to cut
down on that?


Check with the car rental company in which you are interested.

Rental Pass Card That Bypasses Paperwork?
 

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:07:13 -0700, "W"
wrote:

Is there any kind of membership or club card you can buy for any rental car
company that lets you just show up, present the card, and drive away with
minimal hassle? The most objectionable thing to me about rental cars is
the amount of paperwork they make you fill out and the associated time.
How can you get some arrangement with the rental car company to cut down on
that?

An American Express Platinum card gives higher level membership with
several car rental companies including Avis and Hertz.

Rental Pass Card That Bypasses Paperwork?
 

Brian wrote:
An American Express Platinum card gives higher level membership with
several car rental companies including Avis and Hertz.

No matter what any membership will offer, the rental desk will still
need to inspect your driver's license, have you sign for or sign off on
the insurance, sign off on any pre-existing damage on the car, etc. Not
much can be done in advance on any of those things. Renting a car is
not like renting a pressure washer.

--
K.

Lang may your lum reek.

Rental Pass Card That Bypasses Paperwork?
 

In message Brian
was claimed to have wrote:

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:07:13 -0700, "W"
wrote:

Is there any kind of membership or club card you can buy for any rental car
company that lets you just show up, present the card, and drive away with
minimal hassle? The most objectionable thing to me about rental cars is
the amount of paperwork they make you fill out and the associated time.
How can you get some arrangement with the rental car company to cut down on
that?

An American Express Platinum card gives higher level membership with
several car rental companies including Avis and Hertz.

You still have to fill out your name, address, blah blah blah, right?

I'm guessing the goal here is to skip all of that, do it once in advance
and have a card/account/whatever that allows the rental car company to
pull all of your information, print a pre-completed form that you sign
and leave the rental car place in under 5 minutes.

An added bonus would be if the rental car company handed you a damage
inspection form with the known damage to that car already printed on the
form based on the last time the card was returned instead of going out
to the car every time to see what the current droid happens to notice
might be wrong. If you notice anything that was missed you'd add it to
the form and take it back in to update the record, but for reputable
places that properly document damage on cars, this would be unnecessary
in 99% of cases.

Unfortunately until one rental car company discovers that speeding
things up for frequent renters will save them time (and that time is
money) or will encourage renters to choose them, the whole industry will
be content redoing the same paperwork over and over and over and over.

Or maybe things have changed in the last couple months, we don't rent
much in the summer.

Rental Pass Card That Bypasses Paperwork?
 

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:07:13 -0700 "W" wrote:

:Is there any kind of membership or club card you can buy for any rental car
:company that lets you just show up, present the card, and drive away with
:minimal hassle? The most objectionable thing to me about rental cars is
:the amount of paperwork they make you fill out and the associated time.
:How can you get some arrangement with the rental car company to cut down on
:that?

I would guess most do. They have your information and choices on file (you can
change them when you make the reservation), you show up at the car
(Hertz/Avis) with the paperwork all filled out, sign it and present it (and
your license) to the guard on the way out.

--
Binyamin Dissen
http://www.dissensoftware.com

Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me,
you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain.

I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems,
especially those from irresponsible companies.

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Shawn Hirn was claimed to have wrote:

This isn't rocket science. A customer's driver's license can be kept on
file and conceivably the rental agency made aware if a license is
suspended.

Inspecting the card doesn't really tell you whether a license is
suspended either, so we can probably skip that step entirely.

Same with auto insurance.

True.

Rental Pass Card That Bypasses Paperwork?
 

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:34:23 GMT, (Király) wrote:

Brian wrote:
An American Express Platinum card gives higher level membership with
several car rental companies including Avis and Hertz.

No matter what any membership will offer, the rental desk will still
need to inspect your driver's license, have you sign for or sign off on
the insurance, sign off on any pre-existing damage on the car, etc. Not
much can be done in advance on any of those things. Renting a car is
not like renting a pressure washer.

Not at all. No desk. Just get in the car, go to the car, drive to exit
where the person there quickly looks at license and checks the
paperwork. If there is a shuttle, the driver drops us by the car. If
there isn't a shuttle, there's a board with names on it.
We do check the car for damage ourselves and report and problems. At
least I do. I keep telling my wife to but I doubt if she does.

Rental Pass Card That Bypasses Paperwork?
 

"We do check the car for damage ourselves "

ME too . I have never had an attendant make note of 'the scratch on the
trunk' or 'the scrape on the rear passenger tire', etc. Well worth a few
minutes. I always pull into the light and check the entire surface - just to
make sure that I'm not spending money for "damage", before I even leave the
garage.


"Brian" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:34:23 GMT, (Király) wrote:

Brian wrote:
An American Express Platinum card gives higher level membership with
several car rental companies including Avis and Hertz.

No matter what any membership will offer, the rental desk will still
need to inspect your driver's license, have you sign for or sign off on
the insurance, sign off on any pre-existing damage on the car, etc. Not
much can be done in advance on any of those things. Renting a car is
not like renting a pressure washer.

Not at all. No desk. Just get in the car, go to the car, drive to exit
where the person there quickly looks at license and checks the
paperwork. If there is a shuttle, the driver drops us by the car. If
there isn't a shuttle, there's a board with names on it.
We do check the car for damage ourselves and report and problems. At
least I do. I keep telling my wife to but I doubt if she does.

Rental Pass Card That Bypasses Paperwork?
 

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:01:12 -0400, "- Bobb -"
wrote:

"We do check the car for damage ourselves "

ME too . I have never had an attendant make note of 'the scratch on the
trunk' or 'the scrape on the rear passenger tire', etc. Well worth a few
minutes. I always pull into the light and check the entire surface - just to
make sure that I'm not spending money for "damage", before I even leave the
garage.

We always click off some shots with a digital camera before driving
off. The permanent record could be valuable.

-- Larry