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Car Rental News - 28/05/2012
US car hire giant Enterprise has said that it will cease renting out unrepaired recall vehicle models.
US car hire giant Enterprise has said that it will cease renting out unrepaired recall vehicle models.
The move comes months after New Jersey-based Hertz said last year that it would stop the practice amid growing pressure from campaign groups. And this month saw California Democratic senator Barbara Boxer send a letter to the other top three US car rental firms – Avis, Dollar Thrifty and Enterprise – urging them to join Hertz.
Boxer reportedly gave the car hire conglomerates a 30-day deadline and said those who do not commit to the pact are “putting lives at risk”.
And Enterprise responded this week via a letter from chief executive and chairman Andy Taylor, who said that his firm would be “happy to comply” and would work with lawmakers to instate legislation requiring car hire firms to withhold rental vehicles until repair work has been done.
Such legislation was first proposed several years ago following the 2004 death of two California women in an Enterprise rental vehicle that had not undergone recall repairs. Investigators later ruled that the car hire provider was negligent in the ordeal because the recalled issue had caused the rental car to catch fire, causing the fatal accident.
Mr Taylor said in his statement that Enterprise would work to ensure that nothing of the sort “ever happens again”.
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