Now that is strange. ERI is probably a franchise, because they do not accept the FL driveout, and also because Hertz there is identified as a franchise.

Cities that receive a lot of one-way demand to and from Erie, BUF and CLE, are corporate, because they do accept the FL driveout.

So if the counter clerk didn't insist on fishing out a corporate car, they perhaps gave you a licensee car to take to Cleveland. Was there some marking, such as "licensee," near the barcode and/or on the keychain?