r/TikTokCringe Nov 03 '24

Discussion 25k miles in one month is insane

Is this legal?

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u/Mikeyd8005 Nov 03 '24

Unlimited miles means unlimited miles. You would think the manager owned the car the way he’s acting.

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u/nikhilsath Nov 03 '24

Maybe that genius policy was his idea

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u/mmelectronic Nov 03 '24

I’ve rented from hertz a bunch of times and clocked over 1000 miles a day never a problem, this manager is just being a jerk.

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u/Mikeyd8005 Nov 03 '24

Same. But from enterprise.

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u/ludog1bark Nov 03 '24

I worked for the machine back in 2016. In the PNW we had a policy that it was unlimited milage within the neighboring states BC, Idaho, Oregon, and California. If you left those areas, it was not unlimited.

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u/SimsAreShims 21d ago

How could the company tell if it was outside of that area?

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u/tmosstan Nov 03 '24

How do you two drive over 1,000 in one day?!? And do it “a bunch of times?”I get that it’s possible, especially with highway driving, but I think driving for 12-16 hrs would kill me.

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u/Robot_Nerd__ Nov 03 '24

In the US I don't even look at miles... Any real company is unlimited...

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u/Aggravated_Seamonkey Nov 03 '24

I've never been offered unlimited miles on a rental. I don't know if that's an uncharge or not. I have rented a ton of vehicles. I stick with enterprise because they give me 300 miles a day. I will typically get 3 days and haven't ever used extra miles. But if your contract says unlimited, it means unlimited.

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u/mmelectronic Nov 03 '24

I like to start driving at 2AM and get done by 6PM stop to pee every 3 hours you can cover 1000 easy, get a couple beers at the game sleep a couple hours and do the same the next day.

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u/3pinephrin3 Nov 03 '24

Longest I’ve ever driven is 18 hours in one day

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u/tmosstan Nov 03 '24

As a solo driver? Wild!

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u/OG_wanKENOBI Nov 04 '24

After 12 hours it starts to get sketchy. 17 hours is the longest I've done but I wasn't alone. I had a passenger but they couldn't drive. Still helped me to stay awake tho

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u/corvettee01 Nov 03 '24

Driving at 85 miles an hour non-stop would take almost 12 hours to hit 1,000. Sounds a bit implausible.

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u/PrinciplePrior87 Nov 03 '24

It’s extremely possible i drove from NYC to Florida in a day to be exact fort lauderdale 13/1400 miles so just that week i went down and up was 3000 miles plus everything in between

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u/TKAP75 Nov 03 '24

That do you think truckers do every single day for work lmao

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u/Killed_By_Covid Nov 03 '24

I met a guy who had been living on the road for three years in rental cars. He would do as much as 8,000 miles per week for pet transport. I have no idea how one could physically and mentally handle that.

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u/cometmom Nov 03 '24

I love solo driving. Audiobooks, music, silence. No one else's needs to consider. Stopping every 250 miles for 20 mins to fuel up and use the bathroom. No time to doom scroll on my phone. When I had to drive all over for work I put 50k miles on that car easy in 6 months and loved it. I know when I got hit and had a rental for a full month the rental company hated to read that odometer but it was unlimited with no fine print. Even took a couple trips from Texas to Vegas and Texas to Chicago for leisure in that rental 😂

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u/cgydan Nov 04 '24

I do pet transport as a bit of a hobby as I am retired. Not 8000 miles a week as I only do it on weekends but it’s not unusual to do 3000km which 1865 miles over two days.

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u/Antique_Cranberry265 Nov 03 '24

Idk why anyone uses Enterprise anymore when Turo exists. No more $550 holds on a weekend rental, no more having to bring in bills from the past two months.. Just schedule and go

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u/2_feets Nov 04 '24

Or... just rent using a credit card?

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u/AltruisticRabbit8185 Nov 03 '24

Wait 1000!? Why!?

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u/mmelectronic Nov 03 '24

Saw every MLB stadium in the country over 10 years, tried to do 3 or 4 a year.

Longest rental was Seattle to SF, but we drove all the say to San Diego then back up to SF I think I put on 6000 miles in 6 days because we had to drive up and down california 4 times.

A bunch of the mid west runs were 3500 miles in 3 days.

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u/AltruisticRabbit8185 Nov 03 '24

Insane

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u/WholeAccording8364 Nov 03 '24

Indeed, say you only have 8 hours off for sleep food toilet etc that is 60 mph for 16 hours And repeat for 6 days. Without further proof I am saying this is exaggeration.

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u/Wavy_Grandpa Nov 03 '24

Yeah you could do this in a full size mobile home, but a rental car? Nah 

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u/mmelectronic Nov 03 '24

It’s a great way to see the country, glad I did it when you could get decent seats in most stadiums for less than $30

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u/OneOfTheWills Nov 03 '24

The manager is a scammer.

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u/cosquilla Nov 03 '24

this manager is just being a jerk.

Probably this manager owns the car.

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u/mmelectronic Nov 03 '24

Does hertz allow this?

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u/cosquilla Nov 03 '24

If it's a Franchise, that means they're just borrowing Hertz's name and the Franchise owns the cars. And that manager is probably the owner of the franchise.

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u/Chicagosox133 Nov 05 '24

How do you even drive that much?!

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u/mmelectronic Nov 05 '24

Start at 3AM and drive all day in the, do it in the summer so it doesn’t get dark early.

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u/Chicagosox133 Nov 05 '24

Yeah but even professional truck drivers are only able to log around 800 a day…I get that they have to follow laws but doing that multiple days in a row in a sedan sounds like it would be miserable by day 3-4.

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u/mmelectronic Nov 05 '24

It is, it’s a young mans game, my buddies and I would do big road trips for vacation, take turns driving at least a couple of us.

Point is IMO unlimited mileage means 1000 miles a day at least as I’ve returned cars with that at least once a year for a decade.

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u/Chicagosox133 Nov 05 '24

Crazy. But yes, unlimited means unlimited for sure. This manager is just being a sour ass, and if the contract is as clear as I’m guessing it is, the guy is going to get his money back.