#1 Club Gold (Pres) lot exit ID check
May 10, 2007, 2:26 pm
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#1 Club Gold (Pres) lot exit ID check
Very odd question for you here. Due to some "issues" that involved a washing machine and other methods of destruction, my driver's license is almost dead. While doing another rental earlier this week, I got some static and almost refused as they guard felt the ID was "no longer valid".
If I put the ID in one of those little plastic cases that one carries in one's wallet, it looks fine (the major issue is a crack and some seperation of the laminate). Can anyone who keeps their ID in one of these protectors advise if the Hertz security personnel typically remove the ID from it? My concern is if I tape it in place, it will not be removeable.
And yes, I'm getting a replacement, but that process takes time. My job, on the other hand, will not wait.
Thanks for any advice.
If I put the ID in one of those little plastic cases that one carries in one's wallet, it looks fine (the major issue is a crack and some seperation of the laminate). Can anyone who keeps their ID in one of these protectors advise if the Hertz security personnel typically remove the ID from it? My concern is if I tape it in place, it will not be removeable.
And yes, I'm getting a replacement, but that process takes time. My job, on the other hand, will not wait.
Thanks for any advice.
May 10, 2007, 3:09 pm
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Very odd question for you here. Due to some "issues" that involved a washing machine and other methods of destruction, my driver's license is almost dead. While doing another rental earlier this week, I got some static and almost refused as they guard felt the ID was "no longer valid".
If I put the ID in one of those little plastic cases that one carries in one's wallet, it looks fine (the major issue is a crack and some seperation of the laminate). Can anyone who keeps their ID in one of these protectors advise if the Hertz security personnel typically remove the ID from it? My concern is if I tape it in place, it will not be removeable.
And yes, I'm getting a replacement, but that process takes time. My job, on the other hand, will not wait.
Thanks for any advice.
If I put the ID in one of those little plastic cases that one carries in one's wallet, it looks fine (the major issue is a crack and some seperation of the laminate). Can anyone who keeps their ID in one of these protectors advise if the Hertz security personnel typically remove the ID from it? My concern is if I tape it in place, it will not be removeable.
And yes, I'm getting a replacement, but that process takes time. My job, on the other hand, will not wait.
Thanks for any advice.
May 10, 2007, 4:59 pm
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Yea here in VA a couple of clicks on the DMV site and your DUP license is in the mail and to you in 7 days...NO waiting hours at DMV or any paperwork, eye exams, etc.
May 10, 2007, 5:46 pm
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At most of the Hertz locations I frequent, I never have to take my DL out of its pocket on the back side of my money clip. Maybe once in the past 25 rentals has someone told me they couldn't read it through the plastic covering and requested I take it out.
May 11, 2007, 9:07 am
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DillMan did say that he was getting a replacement, mind you, but that it "takes time"; even the 7 days in VA is too much time to wait when one is on the road already or needs to be so in the next couple of days.
IME, the security staff do not care if your license is in an ID holder of any sort.
Mine is, and the only people who have EVER asked me to take it out are the wine shop clerks at Wegman's supermarket. I nearly told them I was going to just put my purchases back and buy them elsewhere when they absolutely insisted (despite having let a far younger-looking person in front of me keep her ID in its holder).
IME, the security staff do not care if your license is in an ID holder of any sort.
Mine is, and the only people who have EVER asked me to take it out are the wine shop clerks at Wegman's supermarket. I nearly told them I was going to just put my purchases back and buy them elsewhere when they absolutely insisted (despite having let a far younger-looking person in front of me keep her ID in its holder).