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Auto Enthusiast
"One-ways involving corporate stores are no problem," the Dollar PR person said to the newspaper. "The sending location simply takes the car off its books and transfers it to the new return location."
Even though it is technically simple, it's still a logistical issue.
Without a drop fee, you would see things like dozens of thousands of cars rented in New York and returned in Florida in the fall/winter as the snowbirds make their ways south. Locations in New York would be sold out of cars while locations in Florida would have such a huge glut of cars they wouldn't be able to store them all. The reverse would happen in the spring/summer.
The drop fee is as much meant to discourage this as it is to "pay" for the logistical hassle of dealing with one-way drops, although the fee does sometimes actually pay for Dollar to pay employees to drive or to pay a trucking company to ship cars from locations with excess cars to locations in need of cars.
Originally Posted by
Auto Enthusiast
Jackal once gave this synopsis before, last year I believe.
I think I've done it a few times...
