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A car rental, rent-a-car or car hire agency is a company that rents automobiles for short periods of time (ranging from a few hours to a few weeks) for a fee. It is an elaborate form of a rental shop, organized in numerous local branches, primarily located near airports or busy city areas and often complemented by a website allowing online reservations. There are also third party websites (such as online travel agencies) which compare quotes from the major car rental agencies. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 1. ... Europcar is a Paris based car rental company owned by the French investment company Eurazeo, after its sale by the Volkswagen group in June 2006. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 561 pixel Image in higher resolution (1280 × 897 pixel, file size: 170 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Sixt Car rental... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 561 pixel Image in higher resolution (1280 × 897 pixel, file size: 170 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Sixt Car rental... Sixt counter Founded in 1912 by Martin Sixt, Sixt serves its customers at more than 3,500 service stations in more than 80 countries. ... Karl Benzs Velo model (1894) - entered into the first automobile race An automobile (or motorcar; often simply car; also auto, motor) is a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own motor. ... One pays a fee as renumeration for services, especially the honorarium paid to a doctor, lawyer or member of a learned profession. ... A rental shop is a store where a consumer can borrow reusable products for a fee for a certain period of time before returning them. ... A computer reservations system, or CRS, is a computerized system used to store and retrieve information and conduct transactions related to travel. ... A travel agency is a business that sells travel related products and services, particularly package tours, to end-user customers on behalf of third party travel suppliers, such as airlines, hotels, tour companies, and cruise lines. ...

Car rental agencies primarily serve people who have a car that is temporarily out of reach or out of service, for example travellers who are out of town or owners of damaged or destroyed vehicles who are awaiting repair or insurance compensation. Because of the variety of sizes of their vehicles, car rental agencies may also serve the self-moving industry needs, by renting vans or trucks. Statue dedicated to the traveller. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The moving industry is a term that normally refers to the accumulation of local and long distance professional moving companies providing household goods packing, moving and storage services within any given state or country. ... A van is a kind of vehicle used for transporting goods or groups of people. ... The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer truck prepares to offload Å koda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For other articles with similar names, see Lorry (disambiguation) and truck (disambiguation). ...

Car rentals are subject to many conditions which vary from one brand to another. The vehicle must be returned in a good condition and must not exceed a maximum driven distance, otherwise extra fees may be incurred. Additionally, some companies set up a minimum age for the vehicle driver, which in some cases is as high as 25, even in countries where the minimum legal age to hold a driver's license is much lower. Recent conditions have utilised GPS technology to limit maximum speeds or driving to specific regions.^{[citation needed]} Renewable fuel vehicles are available in certain areas.^[1] A brand is a name, logo, slogan, and/or design scheme associated with a product or service. ... German version reverse 9. ... Over fifty GPS satellites such as this NAVSTAR have been launched since 1978. ... World renewable energy in 2005 (except 2004 data for items marked* or **). Enlarge image to read exclusions. ...

The vast majority of car rental companies require the use of a Credit card to make it easier for them to trace a person after they have stolen a car, or to charge additional fees at will if a defect is later found with the car. Credit cards A credit card is a system of payment named after the small plastic card issued to users of the system. ...

There are two major types of car hire companies. The first group of companies own their own cars (known as a fleet) and may have agreements with car manufacturers to provide all the cars for that fleet. An example of this type of company would be Alamo or Europcar.

The other type of car hire company operate on a broker model and have commercial agreements with car hire companies to provide access to their fleets of cars.

Reference

1. ^ http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2006/2006-05-01-09.asp#anchor7

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