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Old Feb 18, 2015 | 7:06 am
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Originally Posted by FF524
I am seeing a trend of high mileage cars being assigned. It "use to be" that cars were retired from their mainline fleet at 25,000 miles. Appears a decision was made to keep cars longer - I switched to Avis after a third or fourth dud car over the course of a couple of weeks - unfortunately, Avis appears to have adopted a simiar mindset...
The trend has been ongoing for a couple of years, it's not new. In fact, it's now starting to work the other way: it appears that Hertz management realized that the high mileage cars are having a negative brand impact, and they're actively trying to reduce fleet age.
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