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.