Originally Posted by
bocastephen
Just go to Sixt.com and look at their rates - but these discounts are for long term rentals, short term/weekly are much higher because they want their fleet out earning at least something, vs being parked. It appears only National/Enterprise is really dumb enough to incur costs to store cars vs just letting them out 30 days at a time, even if it's only at $10-15 per day.
Not necessarily. I'm by no means an expert in fleet economics, but on the whole their strategy could be to preserve mileage/wear and tear on the cars rather than send them out for pennies a day. At least in the past, EHI bought their cars from manufacturers outright. Many other fleets (I don't know about Sixt) lease the cars from manufacturers and return them once the mileage reaches a certain threshold. Another thing to consider is that more traffic at the rental lot also means more staff that have to be available to service the cars, attend to customers, etc, which also increases the human-human interaction points.