Rental car companies using AI scanners to charge people for "damage" to vehicles.
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Wow!!
Waived the $350 fee.. if the consumer caused damage why was the fee waived? Sounds like ai was committing fraud and hertz didn’t want to get put on blast especially that you can’t see the previous condition of the vechile b4 getting it
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Marine veteran says he was arrested, charged after Hertz falsely accused him of stealing rental car: "It was hell"
Marine veteran says he was arrested, charged after Hertz falsely accused him of stealing rental car: "It was hell"
Blake Gober spent a week in a Louisville jail shortly before his wedding.
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Blake Gober, a 33-year-old political consultant and a Marine veteran, is among a group of Hertz customers who have faced criminal charges following accusations of theft from the rental car company.
"Charging an innocent person and trying to go after an innocent person, that's not justice. That's the opposite of justice," Gober told CBS News.
Gober said that in November 2019 he rented a car from Hertz in Morgantown, West Virginia, to travel to his new job. After completing his journey, he says he returned the vehicle to Hertz at Washington, D.C.'s Reagan National Airport. There was no agent when he arrived late at night, so he left the keys in the car at the drop-off location, he said.
Nearly three years later, Gober's life took a turn when he was pulled over for speeding in Louisville, Kentucky, his current place of residence.
"They pulled me behind the vehicle and placed me in handcuffs and said that I had a warrant out for my arrest out of West Virginia," said Gober.
Gober spent a week in a Louisville jail, waiting for West Virginia officers to pick him up, just six weeks before his scheduled wedding.
How rental company Hertz falsely accused its own customers of auto theft
How rental company Hertz falsely accused its own customers of auto theft
After accusations resulted in numerous false arrests at gunpoint, the company recently announced it will pay $168m to settle 364 claims
On 13 January 2021, a swarm of police officers with guns drawn suddenly surrounded Saleema Lovelace in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, and asked the 45-year old local community activist to exit the Nissan Sentra she was driving.
Lovelace, a member of Philadelphia’s 39th police district advisory council, an organization that seeks to liaise between police officers and local residents, was asked by police to roll down her windows and exit her car before she was placed in handcuffs and put in a police patrol car.
Her elderly father who was also in the car was also detained by the police, as shown in body-cam footage obtained by Atlanta Black Star.
As Lovelace began hyperventilating in the patrol car, a police officer proceeded to tell her that they were responding to an auto theft call. The Nissan Sentra that Lovelace had been driving for half a year after getting into a car accident had been reported stolen by Hertz, the car rental company.
But that was not true.
They 're looking to find every microscopic damage that they can find to bill you for.... just wait until car dealerships start doing the same thing when you trade your car in..... wait until carfax etc. starts usig this shit
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Hertz and Enterprise are the
As was stated, those cars have gps......
Whats to say a disgruntled employee or a customer of another company didn't take the car out and take it for a 3 month spin?....
Dude rented a one-way from VA to DC. 3 months later it's "recovered" in West Virginia.....?
How did it get back out of the lot? Whenever I rent from the airport they look at my ID and verify the rental is in the system and under my name.....
Only an employee can get it out of the lot and bypass that system.
Marine veteran says he was arrested, charged after Hertz falsely accused him of stealing rental car: "It was hell"
Marine veteran says he was arrested, charged after Hertz falsely accused him of stealing rental car: "It was hell"
Blake Gober spent a week in a Louisville jail shortly before his wedding.
Blake Gober, a 33-year-old political consultant and a Marine veteran, is among a group of Hertz customers who have faced criminal charges following accusations of theft from the rental car company.
"Charging an innocent person and trying to go after an innocent person, that's not justice. That's the opposite of justice," Gober told CBS News.
Gober said that in November 2019 he rented a car from Hertz in Morgantown, West Virginia, to travel to his new job. After completing his journey, he says he returned the vehicle to Hertz at Washington, D.C.'s Reagan National Airport. There was no agent when he arrived late at night, so he left the keys in the car at the drop-off location, he said.
Nearly three years later, Gober's life took a turn when he was pulled over for speeding in Louisville, Kentucky, his current place of residence.
"They pulled me behind the vehicle and placed me in handcuffs and said that I had a warrant out for my arrest out of West Virginia," said Gober.
Gober spent a week in a Louisville jail, waiting for West Virginia officers to pick him up, just six weeks before his scheduled wedding.
As was stated, those cars have gps......
Whats to say a disgruntled employee or a customer of another company didn't take the car out and take it for a 3 month spin?....
Dude rented a one-way from VA to DC. 3 months later it's "recovered" in West Virginia.....?
How did it get back out of the lot? Whenever I rent from the airport they look at my ID and verify the rental is in the system and under my name.....
Only an employee can get it out of the lot and bypass that system.
Why would you rent a car without a damage waiver or collision coverage?
If someone hits your car while it's parked or breaks a window to get inside you're going to be out a lot more than that little $15 a day fee.
Better yet, use Turo or a car share service. Those things are so banged up you could kick the shit out of the grill and no one would know the difference.
If someone hits your car while it's parked or breaks a window to get inside you're going to be out a lot more than that little $15 a day fee.
Better yet, use Turo or a car share service. Those things are so banged up you could kick the shit out of the grill and no one would know the difference.
Collision coverage is $26.99+, I tend to rent SUVS and for those its anywhere from $38 - $48 per day......
If I'm just need something to run around town while my main car is in the shop or want to make a quick 250 mile run and then back without adding miles to my car?..... now when I go out of state, I get it.
Supplemental Liability coverage is usually in the $15-$20 / day range
*Also, I tend to rent Toros that are in pretty good shape. The basic Toro insurance only covers $3-$5k IIRC.
I use Zipcar. Collision coverage is a $140 a year subscription fee no matter what size vehicle. It covers everything including wreckage.
Zipcar is my go to unless I need a long-term rental or I'm playing a gig more than 200 miles from home.
Damn cac locked ip for a week, I can just imagine if........
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