Originally Posted by
hillrider
This still doesn't justify the fact that the fee is disproportional to the efforts of Hertz, which is to respond with a name and address to a query consisting of license plate date and time.
$40 is about 2 hours of a fully-loaded $32,000 annual salary employee, which would make such an employee one earning an income higher than that of the overall median personal income for all individuals over the age of 18 in the US, which is $25,149 (
source)
The fee is disproportional the efforts of Hertz? How do you know what their efforts are? Sometimes the local government goes directly after Hertz, they pay the ticket up front, and then have to try to recover the money from the renter. Regardless, they do not have to justify their charges. They are not a not-for-profit organization. If you don't like the charges then rent elsewhere. Better yet, stop breaking the law.