Electric cars.

Out of curiosity, how do you get to and from the car hire place? Do they normally have parking facility for you to leave your car?

 

They can do drop off and pick up

 

For a fee, of course!

 

We used to have one bus a week that came down our road, didn't stop but it came past us. That stopped years ago. The bus stop in the village is a mile away with an infrequent bus, if it bothers to turn up. Even when it does it doesn't go near a car hire place.

If we needed to hire a car to go on a long journey I think it would be difficult carrying our cases and the kitchen sink to the bus stop.

I just checked and the nearest car hire place is at the airport.

Ahh!!!

Ohh!!!

 

I think I'll stick to my Rolls Royce and keep my chauffeur in a job - to help the economy, of course.

 

I only had that problem once. It was when a job was being done on my car under warranty. The car hire company delivered the car to me and came to take it back a week later when my car had been returned from the main dealer. I got an unpleasant sounding phone call from the car hire company (Enterprise) asking me to pay the delivery charge and the mileage on the car. When I said 'No!' (quite emphatically ) they turned rather rude so I put the phone down on them.

Two days later I received a 'legal' letter threatening court action. I phoned them and said I would be happy to see them in court and would they be so kind as to send me a copy of any signed documents they may have from me. A few days later I got a call from their manager apologising to me as they couldn't find any such document. I was not surprised as the car was hired by the manufacturer of my car as it was covered under warranty

 

I picked my leased EV up from a Tesco car park. I never met anyone, just followed the map on the car app to locate it within the car park. The app also unlocked it. I could have done the same when I handed it back, just left it at a drop off point but my wife would have to have followed me or use public transport to get home. I opted to pay them to send a driver to my home to collect, it was cheaper than the train/bus and saved me time.