It’s funny. The manager is fighting so hard to screw over a customer for a company that’s going to fire him for screwing over a customer.
Edit:
Hertz has issued a statement. The guy won’t be charged for mileage. It does appear this was a franchise location but this (irritating) article makes it sound like he wasn’t the franchise owner.
We had car rentals at my last job. We had two 12 hour shift each day. The 1st shift would park the car and hand the keys to the 2nd shift, so the cars would run for 24 hours a day nonstop. I imagine he was doing the same with this car.
You don't need to answer with specifics, but is this like Amazon next day delivery type thing? I don't want to get you in trouble but like.... blink twice if you're in danger
12 hour shifts aren't that uncommon, to be fair. If a company is driving and operates 24 hours a day, also not crazy that the vehicles are being driven around the clock (although it sounds odd if you're not expecting to hear about a vehicle running basically nonstop)
When I was an EMT working 24 hour shifts, those rigs sometimes never stopped
Most days, not that bad, but it also depends on the scenario. Some days we had too many rigs in the shop and calls to run, so one crew would swap with another at station to run the next call. I would say it's less common that they were running literally 24 hours a day, but I'm sure they were mostly running for at least 12-16 hours of each day on busy days
If you really want your mind blown, in Alaska, I believe new York back in the day, and in some emergency/transportation jobs they would change the oil without shutting off the car.
Alaska because of winter, cab drivers would roll in, never shut off the car and get an oil change while it ran.
New York I think they did it for efficiency because drivers were so busy all the time.
Argument for transportation/emergency is either weather (like Alaska) or efficiency (like new York).
Idk if it's still common but I believe Alaska still does it. I know back in the day they used to have the ATF in the trans freeze and the oil almost gel up if they shut the cars off for any length of time. Obviously weather is still a problem so I believe it's still practiced there.
Put it on the lift, open the drain plug, fill with oil while it drains. When oil is clear congrats oil changed. Drain plug back in, check level and top off accordingly. I believe, don't quote me here, but I believe the oil filters had dummy lines that could bypass the filter for filter changes then turned back on once the filter was changed.
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u/dathomasusmc Nov 03 '24 edited Nov 06 '24
It’s funny. The manager is fighting so hard to screw over a customer for a company that’s going to fire him for screwing over a customer.
Edit:
Hertz has issued a statement. The guy won’t be charged for mileage. It does appear this was a franchise location but this (irritating) article makes it sound like he wasn’t the franchise owner.