But more seriously, this could come in handy if time is short, and you want both an airport airline flights tickets cheap pickup and the freedom to drive your own butt around town. Your chauffeur can pick up your car and be there ready to pick you up at the airport, curbside. They can also do drop-offs. Thereafter, you can drive the car yourself, as normal.
Avis has featured airline flights tickets cheap chauffeur service in certain cities outside the US, such as Mexico City , for some time, but the joint venture with WeDriveU will be available in Boston, Chicago, airline flights tickets cheap Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
I can see some creative use of the product by consumers Renting your car at a off-airport (city) location of Avis (to save airport charges, which can be considerable), airline flights tickets cheap having your driver pick you up curbside at the airport, drive your jet-lagged self to your hotel, take care of parking the thing in the hotel s lot, then hand off the keys to the concierge. You ve saved time taking shuttle airline flights tickets cheap busses to the airport s rental car center. airline flights tickets cheap The car is there when you need it, and you ve paid only $90 (less the savings from getting the car off-airport) for a hassle-free beginning to a trip.
Avis is operating illegally. In New Jersey every vehicle used for hire (to transport passnegers), must be registered as such. Without the specific vehicle being resgistered as a limousine, taxi, bus or omnibus is in violation of NJ Statute 39:3.19.1 The driver will be fined if stopeed.
More importantly, if that car is not registered with one of the above plates, both the driver and passenger(s) airline flights tickets cheap will not have any insurance coverage as it becomes a for hire use and all traditional, commercial and other insurances becone null and void
Avis is operationg illegally. In New Jersey every vehicle used for hire (to transport passengers), must be registered as such. Without the specific vehicle being registered as a limousin, taxi,bus or omnibus the are in violation of NJ statute 39:3.19.1. The driver will be fined if stopped. More importantly, botyh the driver passenger(s) airline flights tickets cheap will have no insurance. It doesn t matter if you have commerc ial or personal coverage. Once that vehicle is used fvor hire , that individual vehicle must be registered as such
Don t you think that maybe the people running this two rather big companies might have some clue what they are doing? WeDriveU has been around for almost 20 years and Avis has a pretty decent reputation in the rental car industry.
If you happened to notice they don t offer the service in New Jersey so any info you might have on that states laws really don t mean a whole lot in this situation. Rental cars companies can prohibit their car from leaving the state in their contract. Therefore if the service is in anyway illegal in Jersey then I m sure they would just not allow cars from N.Y. to cross into Jersey.
And I m not really sure if you have a reading problem of just a comprehension problem, but the DRIVER is For Hire the CAR is For Rent . If someone opts to use this service they are billed by Avis for the Car and then WeDriveU for the Driver.
It s a little arrogant to think you know so much more than these people that clearly put some money into R D on this Idea. Companies like these don t open a program in 10 huge markets across the U.S. without airline flights tickets cheap putting at least a little thought into the idea.
I have used this service and it was amazing. I had a day full of meetings and the first one was only 45 minutes after my flight landed. My Driver was waiting at the curb standing next to my Car with the trunk open. He asked if he could take my bags and then opened the door for me. I told him he could relax a bit and he said he was totally relaxed airline flights tickets cheap he was just making sure that everything was perfect for my trip.
On the way out of the airport he knew about construction on the main highway and asked if I minded taking service streets into downtown. After about twenty minutes asked if I minded being early. I responded no and he put the car in park, got out, and opened my door. He got me from the airport to the meeting in less than twenty minutes I had time to get a coffee, go to the bathroom, and I was still the first one in the boardroom.
He drove me for the rest of the day and was perfect. We chatted baseball and he told me some great stories about the city but he only spoke when spoken to. It was great. Way better than a cab. Faster, easier, better smelling, nicer, classier, more fun, and not a whole lot more expensive when you think about the fact that I took 13 trips around the city in 6 hours and paid about $180 buck. the airport ride alone would have cost me $35 and I never would have made it to the meeting in time. If the other 12 rides would have had fares of even ten bucks apiece the cost would be very similar. As is a never had to look for ride. I called my driver as I walked out of each meeting and he was sitting in front of the door by the time I got off the elevators. I was in busy downtown and parking is nowhere, I never could have driven myself. He did a great job providing this service.
The next day was my free day and I had planned to spend it at the hotel doing some work. Two college buddies called and asked if I wanted to go out to watch a football game and then hit a couple bars. As I agreed the Idea hit me. Rather than taking a cab out to the game and then to the bars I could have my driver airline flights tickets cheap drive me. I have one DUI and another could easily ruin my career.
I called WeDriveU and even though they only guarantee a driver on 24 hours notice they said they would see what they could do and I had a call back within ten minutes saying a driver would be waiting in the lobby by 1PM. Pretty quick considering is was 10:45 and I wasn t scheduled to have a driver that day. My driver called me at 12:50 saying that he was in the lobby and I should take my time but just know he was there and ready.
I drank about a barrel of beer with my buddies that night. We traveled a total of 230 miles and we were hammered for the majority of the rides. I think the 45 mile ride out to the game was the only time I could have driven.
By opening your mouth on a subject you don t know about you risk keeping others from something they might be able to use. Don t hurt others by opening you mouth without thinking first, it s bad for the whole world.
As a former employee of wedriveu there were no background checks I am aware of besides the standard dmv read out, the company runs ads for drivers on an as needed basis and doesnt seem to be able to provide full time 40 hour weeks so far as I could tell. Local offices are not full time staffed and operations are run from their northern California telephone.
In one recent development the Wedriveu-Avis alliance has been banned airline flights tickets cheap at the San Francisco airport and their operations will certainly be curtailed else where as the concept does not conform to P.U.C. regs (* ref: Limo Digest Aug-07).
I dont know Bill nor do I know you, Bill refers to new Jersey law, I refer you to California airline flights tickets cheap PUC regs and special orders, have you read them? Perhaps you should make yourself conversant in them before you issue your ill advised personal remarks not based on the true facts and settled law governing the industry?
When one hires a car and driver regardless of this schemes attempt to circumvent the law, that activity falls under the purview of the state and local government for good reason, and wedriveu-avis are no more exempt from complying with those laws as any other livery service.
Take for instance insurance? Whose insurance applies here? The consumers who often claim personal insurance coverage at the rental counter? or Avis when insurance is declined/accepted by the consumer, or is it the wedriveu insurance that applies here, is it the $8.00 per hr, driver s personal insurance that affords coverage here? I think you might be surprised to find that out for yourself by calling your insurance agent and telling them you want to drive an Avis car for a third party and seek to extend coverage and see how fast your personal policy morphs into a commercial one and at what cost?
is a loophole in the laws and is renting luxury sedans and then Renting on the same contract a driver through airline flights tickets cheap a shill company whose only client is Avis. Avis is doing this with criminal intent airline flights tickets cheap to knowingly and willfully evade and violate Federal, State and Local laws and ordinances that govern airline flights tickets cheap for-hire vehicle airline flights tickets cheap activity. In most jurisdictions, transporting the public for hire requires a taxicab or limousine permit for the company, the vehicle and the driver. Avis has met none of those requirements. Avis is a large and wealthy multinational corporation. They could easily form licensed limousine airline flights tickets cheap services anywhere they wanted to and get the necessary permits, CDL drivers and commercial livery insurance. Avis, however, is not interested in playing by the rules. In fact they own 45% of Carey International Limos and had an option to increase that stake to 85%, but they declined it when they saw how it easy it was to operate limo services illegally. They are more interested in coming in like a thief in the night, seeing what all they can get away with before they get caught. They are reprobates and lawbreakers in the same category as drug dealers, identity thieves and child pornographers. They are the largest gypsy limo operation in America today. I wonder if someone airline flights tickets cheap has bothered to enlighten Avis stockholders airline flights tickets cheap as to the extent of Avis willful violation of laws and ordinances across the nation? Contrary to what they claim, the vast majority of Avis WeDriveU drivers do not have CDL s, are not fingerprinted, FBI checked or drug tested. When WeDriveU needs extra drivers on short notice, they simply post it on Craigslist and hire whoever walks in. If you go to Avis own website and enter WeDriveU, you will see that they have targeted 28 cities for takeover from legitimate limousine and black car services. They are so brazen as to even put pictures of black
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