I'm sure not a lot of traveling is going on right now, but Hertz rental great deals
Renting a car for one day at Hertz, 500+ miles roundtrip, full-size car, $22. Even with taxes and add-ons, it's $26.
Man, they are hurting. I know they filed for bankruptcy reorganization, and suspect others will follow with the lack of traveling.
Anyway...I often use them if it costs me $0.10 per mile or less to rent. That's generally my standard...Here, I'm about a nickel a mile.
My car uses premium gas, and gets about 17-18mpg on the highway. The full-sized cars I rent from them generally get about 30mpg and use regular.
So rental car will use about 17 gallons, roughly, and my car about 28-29 gallons, roughly. Call it 28.
Average price for my 28 gallons is $2.30 in Alabama, or about $64.40 for the trip.
Average price of the 17 gallons is $1.63 in Alabama, or about $27.71 for the trip.
Forget wear and tear on the car, the engine, the tires, the oil, etc. The gas alone makes this a good financial decision.
(Now, I'd rather drive my big SUV...it's more comfortable...but in a situation like this? I'll take it.)
FWIW, I'm very cautious about COVID-19. I will disinfect the car before I drive it, even after Hertz does. I will drive with windows cracked open, and A/C with fresh air from outside. I think that will be fine.
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Just in case anyone else is interested...I used their "50 and up" discount on their front page this time. I have a whole host of discounts (AAA, my own account, FWAA, and several others), and this one was best this time.
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Hertz just called and asked if it was ok for a GMC pickup truck instead.
(I love pickup trucks. Trying to find the right moment to buy one, but with 6 cars already parked at my house, it's kinda hard to justify...)
KentuckyWildcat, my clients who own gas stations wish you were correct, but I think it's wishful thinking so far. It's better, but travel is still way down. Saw a feature on TV a couple of nights ago with video of the Atlanta airport, busiest in the world--vacant. I mean, vacant.
Here's a story about their traffic on Memorial Day weekend.
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The deal still going on, will vacation in Hilton head on June 20th and was thinking of checking into renting a SUV for 4 people to travel from Louisville.
I'm sure not a lot of traveling is going on right now, but Hertz rental great deals
I would check daily or every other day. Right now, the deal is okay for next week but what cost $22 yesterday will cost $33 next Thursday. I'm disappointed, because I do need a rental car next Thursday. Can drive my own car, of course, but when I'm driving out of town and returning the same day, putting a lot of miles on my car with terrible gas mileage and expensive gas, I like to rent a car if they have good deals.
Re: I'm sure not a lot of traveling is going on right now, but Hertz rental great dea
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
KentuckyWildcat, my clients who own gas stations wish you were correct, but I think it's wishful thinking so far. It's better, but travel is still way down. Saw a feature on TV a couple of nights ago with video of the Atlanta airport, busiest in the world--vacant. I mean, vacant.
Darrell, I don't know. I'm sure travel isn't what it should be yet. But I can probably name a dozen families that have been on vacation in the last two weeks. And some before the Kentucky travel ban was lifted. 2 of those families (PCB and Gulf shores) said the beach was crowded over memorial day weekend. I can name 5 families going next week.
Maybe it is the just us Muhlenberg County and Christian County folks traveling
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More conflicting info. We are interviewing a CAO. One candidate flew in, said the plane was probably 80% full. Another candidate said her plane didn't have 5 people on it. I assume it had more than 5, but the point being there was not many.
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I'm pretty comfortable in the knowledge travel is still down, KentuckyWildcat--anecdotes aside, the travel numbers just aren't there yet. One plane doesn't mean anything, if 15 other planes are in the hangar.
For example, TSA checkpoint numbers:
May 31, 2019: 2,555,578
May 31, 2020: 352,947
Anecdotally, but pretty good source, I've got a client with 23 gas stations that is telling me what their numbers are, too.
Here are the numbers from March, April and May from TSA. You can see that we were strong in March before the pandemic was known, then it fell off, and it's improving, but WAY under where we were.
TSA checkpoint travel numbers for 2020 and 2019
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Re: I'm sure not a lot of traveling is going on right now, but Hertz rental great dea
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
Anecdotally, but pretty good source, I've got a client with 23 gas stations that is telling me what their numbers are, too.
I'd be curious if that is lack of local traffic or lack of vacationing? Do they know? Do they have a read on that? That is a serious question (sorry if that sounds sarcastic).
As I've said, I don't know. And certainly not arguing your point, and I know you know that. And I realize travel is far from it's peak. But I do know lots of people around here are vacationing. But overall here, Wal-Mart, Kroger, etc are still not that crowded.
PS - I'd expect flights to still be low overall. No way would I fly right now.
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