Avis South Africa boss, Wayne Duvenage, has said that he is sure that by the end of the decade the company’s expensive relocation to King Shaka International Airport will pay off. Although he admits that the company would have preferred to remain at the old airport, now that all the work had been completed, he [...]

In an effort to attract graduates Enterprise has teamed up with Youth Media, the UK’s leading media network aimed at younger people, to create an app which will feature on their YouthWire Desktop Platform. The app will explain to users throughout the country’s universities and colleges how Enterprise operates as a business, its culture and [...]

The current popularity of the car club has not been lost on French car makers Peugeot, who have announced that they will be opening branches of ‘Mu by Peugeot’ in London and Bristol. Peugeot already has car club operations through its dealerships in a number of cities in France including Paris, Nantes and Lyon. Mu [...]

Hertz has promised that if its $1.3 billion bid for Dollar Thrifty is accepted, then employees of the budget car hire firm in Tulsa would be secure in their jobs for at least three months following the take over. Hertz chief executive, Mark P Frissora, said in a letter to Dollar Thrifty chief executive, Scott [...]

The automatic payment system used by Transport for London to charge companies who send multiple vehicles into the congestion zone, has come under attack from a number of users who claim it is charging them too much money, and wrongly issuing them with fines. The system is being run by IBM, who took over the [...]

Car hire customers at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport could soon find themselves having to pay a fee of around $8 per day, if plans to impose the charge are given the go ahead by the City Council. Mayor Richard Daley has already had his proposal approved by the Aviation Committee. The $8 fee would be [...]

First Car Rental in South Africa has signed a code which it hopes will help to raise awareness and help protect children involved in the sex tourism industry. The Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism was introduced in 1998 by ECPAT, an organisation dedicated to combating [...]

A campaigner has lost his battle at the High Court to have 39 penalty charges, received for parking his car on single yellow lines in a controlled parking zone, overturned. 47-year-old Neil Herron claims that the parking zone in Sunderland in which he received the notices, was too large and too confusing for the charges [...]

The owner of an elite car hire firm, based in Kensington, has been sentenced to two years in jail for fraud. 33-year-old Koroush Pour, who owns Swift Hire, was found guilty of swindling the firm’s creditors out of nearly £500,000. Pour used the personal details of customers to obtain credit, and also sold vehicles which [...]

A spokesman for the debt burdened University of Cumbria has said that the £800,000 it spent on taxis and hire cars over an 18-month period is not exceptional. Figures released by the University show that in the period ending in December last year, hire cars had cost the institution around £300,000, with taxi fares making up an additional £470,000. [...]