Utah Facebook meeting nets return of rental car
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities in Salt Lake City say a rental car company employee used Facebook to trick a woman into returning a vehicle she stole.
The Deseret News reports (http://bit.ly/qhpmTO ) Jennifer Marshall Hansen rented an SUV from Affordable Rent-A-Car but failed to return it as scheduled on Sept. 1.
The 42-year-old woman from Sandy now faces a second-degree felony count of theft of a rental vehicle. The charge was filed Wednesday in Salt Lake City’s 3rd District Court.
Hansen could get up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
Court papers say a company employee “friended” Hansen on Facebook and arranged to meet with her. The papers say Hansen drove the stolen vehicle to the meeting and the employee called police.
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Information from: Deseret News, http://www.deseretnews.com
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Cheap car hire in Iceland this winter with Reykjavik Rent a Car
Reykjavik Rent a Car, Iceland’s leading car rental company, offers discount prices from September to May for winter travel in Iceland.
Press release 29.09.2011 16:13 GMT+1
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Reykjavik Rent a Car, Iceland’s leading car rental company, offers discount prices from September to May for winter travel in Iceland.
The car rental company offers vehicles including Jeep, Suzuki and Ford; all available with automatic transmission and considerable engine power. The company also equips all of its vehicles with satellite navigation and mobile phones in order to provide extra safety and peace of mind for its customers.
Reykjavik Rent a Car’s top priority is road safety, especially throughout the winter months when conditions worsen. The company advises visitors on correct procedures for various driving situations, including river crossing and gravel road driving.
“With the winter months fast approaching and road conditions worsening, it is vital that car rental companies in Iceland ensure they make customers aware of the hazards that can arise when driving across country. This awareness can help prevent accidents and make the roads safer for everyone,” explained Halldor Baldvinsson, Floor Manager at Reykjavik Rent a Car.
Moreover, Reykjavik Rent a Car offers a pickup service from Keflavik International Airport, as well as a delivery service from any Reykjavik hotel, any address in the Greater Reykjavik area or BSI, the main bus terminal in downtown Reykjavik.
To select a vehicle and make a booking with Reykjavik Rent a Car, visit www.reykjavikrentacar.is.
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Hitting the road, in search of the real America
So many things crash through your senses while racing down the road:
billboards, church signs, memorials to car wreck victims, sinister factories blowing fire into the night. All of it is important, all of it seems full of secret meaning. Clues to something personal or national, it’s hard to say, but the bus depots, shabby motels, title pawn shops, penitentiaries, and blinking neon feel like pieces to a grand puzzle that will shatter as soon as you cut the ignition.
— James A. Reeves, The Road to Somewhere: An American Memoir
In 2005, James A. Reeves embarked on an unusual odyssey. He crisscrossed America alone in rental cars on weekends and during work breaks for the next five years. He logged over 55,000 miles, traveled to every state in the lower 48 but Maine, collected a dozen speeding tickets, and recorded with pen and camera the reality of America on back roads and superhighways.
When he set out, Reeves was 28 and had already earned acclaim as a designer and artist. He had worked at an array of jobs from, retail sales clerk and pizza deliverer to elementary school teacher and college lecturer. But he was concerned about his seemingly aimless path, and was searching for answers about his country and about himself. So he launched a series of forays into the unknown, into the vastness of the continent. He records an America of stark contrasts: of desolation and decay as well as richness and marvels, of anger and kindness, of disenchantment and celebration, and of dread and hope.
In his new book, The Road to Somewhere: An American Memoir (Norton), Reeves recounts the course of his travels with graceful and humble written observations and moving photographs of this large and complex nation. He takes the reader along great empty stretches of asphalt, as he listens to the drone of talk radio, eats at all-night diners, beds down at cheap motels, and fills up at lonely gas stations. As he drives the lonely roads and finds comfort in the desolate spaces, Reeves reflects on the terrible beauty and welcome quirkiness and wonder of America.
Reeves is a writer, educator, and designer. He attended the University of Michigan, Pratt Institute, and Tulane Law School. He has taught courses in design, research, history, and visual culture at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design. He is a partner Civic Center, a creative studio devoted to improving cities and civic conversation. He lives in New Orleans.
Reeves spoke by telephone from the road in Florida at the outset of his book tour in August.
Robin Lindley: What stimulated your book?
James A. Reeves: I started driving across America in 2004 for political reasons. When Bush was elected there was a lot of talk about the “real America” and Main Street, U.S.A., and I wanted to see what that looked like. I planned to interview people, take some pictures, and get a better sense of what was dividing the country (although by today’s standards, 2004’s polarization seems almost quaint). Once I got on the road, however, the political angle was less interesting to me than all the land and the people that I met along the way. I saw the endless loop of empty towns with dignified buildings book-ended by sprawl, I got into small adventures, and I started thinking about what it all means. It’s wonderful how a nation so big and chaotic holds together, even if it’s awkward at times.
Whenever I saved up enough money, I’d rent a car and drive. Slowly, these drives became more personal. I started wondering, “What should I be doing in this country? How do I become a man in America? And what does that mean?” The answer was clear for my grandfather and a little less clear for my father, but they both had faith in companies, pride in their country, and they started families at a young age. None of these metrics seemed to apply to me.
In 2009, I was living in Helsinki when my mom got sick. I came back to Michigan and rented a car for six weeks. She passed away suddenly and I didn’t know where to go next. So I drove for six weeks, out into the Mojave and down along the Mexican border to New Orleans. Then I decided I should do something with the notes and photographs that I collected.
Lindley: You repeat through the book this question: “What does it mean to be a man?” Can you talk about your search for meaning?
Reeves: In 1941 my grandfather drove across the country to deliver a car, and he hitchhiked home with a bathing suit salesman. He served in World War II when he was 19 and when he returned, he worked for the same company for 38 years. He seemed like such an adult, even when he was 19. When I was 19, I was writing bad poetry and changing my major every month.
The benchmarks for masculinity were: Go to war, start a family, work for a company. Some men followed them, others rejected them, but they were there. For my generation, faith in a paternal company or pride in a nation has dissolved into something else.
I was living in Finland while the health care debate was going on. Photos of angry protestors with confused Marxist/Fascist/Medicare signs. Finns would ask me, “Why don’t Americans want health care?” I couldn’t answer that question. If there was ever a great populist issue, health care should have been it.
The moment I landed back in America to visit my mom, I flipped on the radio and there’s Sean Hannity screeching, ”When has the American government ever done anything we can be proud of?” And I’d nearly forgotten: We hate our government. It’s an adversarial relationship because there’s so much distance between people and Washington DC. People in other nations seem to know what it means to be a citizen of that country, to be Finnish or German or Japanese. But in America, we’ve been arguing about what it means to be American since day one.
Sometimes this argument gets destructive. Our health scare system is antagonistic to most Americans. It certainly scared the hell out of my mom and she refused to go to the doctor for a simple check up because she was afraid of premiums, red tape, of losing her coverage. We never knew how sick she was. And the fact that this situation, one which requires basic empathy, somehow got wrapped up in a discussion of “freedom”? It’s like the best American traditions of individualism and self-reliance have been thrown into a funhouse mirror.
Lindley: Did you have any rules for the road to stay safe?
Reeves: I felt unsafe crossing the Continental Divide on chewed up loopy dirt roads and seeing signs like “This road is no longer federally maintained.” One time, there was a freak snowstorm in Arizona while I was crossing the Continental Divide. I reached the peak in this little matchbox rental car, and the interior of the valley was covered in ice and the car started sliding down. Even now I get a queasy feeling thinking about it, the car going over the edge, sliding into the treetops below. Another truck came flying around the corner and smashed the back of my car and I was going over the edge. But four high school students appeared in an enormous pick-up with snow chains, and they hopped out and started pushing the car away from the edge, forming a wall between my car and the edge, and I’m imagining the headline: “Unprepared motorist sends four local students to their death.” But then we rounded the corner, where all these other people had wiped out. Someone said, “Who’s got the beer?” and a little party happened.
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Europcar simplifies the process for car hire customers with its new eReady service
Europcar simplifies the process for car hire customers ?with its new eReady service
Thursday, 29 September 2011 10:28
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Europcar simplifies the process for car hire customers ?with its new eReady service
Europcar is giving its customers a new online checkout service to improve the speed and efficiency of the car hire experience. With eReady, Europcar customers can save time at the counter because they will have already activated their Rental Agreement online. Initial response to the service, which has been trialed with a number of European customers has been very positive. The service is available in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK and illustrates Europcar’s commitment to customer satisfaction.
The eReady online checkout tool pops up on the reservation confirmation page. The customer simply adds contact information and agrees to two tick box terms. The Rental Agreement is then activated. This speeds up the check out at the counter, enhancing the efficiency of service for all customers.
“Saving time and making car hire easier are paramount to customer satisfaction which is at the heart of our philosophy. With the eReady service, our customers will get a different, more efficient checkout experience at the counter, speeding up the overall car hire process. Not only does the customer benefit first-hand, but with more customers using eReady, customer service as a whole will be improved at our car hire stations as a key part of the rental process is automated. This is just the first stage of this new service, and we plan to add even more advantages for our customers in the future.” said Ken McCall, Managing Director, Europcar Group UK.
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Sixt-rent-a-car supplies 13 Kia Mohave to Bahrain Petroleum
“We are proud to tie up with The Bahrain Petroleum Company B.S.C. (BAPCO). This partnership reaffirms group’s commitment to provide fleet customers with world-class Rental and Leasing solutions,” said Mr. A.Aziz Bin Hindi.
Established in 1912, Sixt ranks among the world’s top five car rental service companies and is considered as one of Europe’s leading mobility-service-providers for car rentals, leisure cars, holiday cars, chauffeur limousine service and car leasing. Sixt offers a wide range of services to business and leisure customers at more than 4000 locations in over 105 countries including all Europe, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Lebanon and Jordan. Etc.
BAPCO, wholly owned by the Government of Bahrain, is engaged in the oil industry including exploration and prospecting for oil, drilling, production, refining, distribution of petroleum products and natural gas, sales and exports of crude oil and refined products.
BAPCO’s prime customers for crude oil and refined products are based in the Middle East, India, the Far East, South East Asia and Africa, and 95% of refined products are exported.
In Bahrain, Sixt rent a car provides unique fleet for local International short term, long term rental, leasing and limousine services. It boasts an impressive fleet of luxury cars comprising leading and reputed brands and range of models. It presents customer-friendly rental packages and superior quality international standards services.
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Costa Rica Rental Car Launches Their Car Rental San Jose Services
The quality and affordable car rentals San Jose services of the company Costa Rica Rental Car with their fleet of cars.
Online PR News – 29-September-2011 –The quality and affordable car rentals San Jose services of the company Costa Rica Rental Car with their fleet of cars that meet all the travel needs and requirements of people who are on the lookout for a trouble free travel. The company offers plenty of flexibility regarding the total period of hire and be it a week or a single day or a month or an entire year, clients can hire these rental cars across any specific period of their choice. Instead of worrying about their transport, clients can opt for the company’s free and convenient pick up and drop off services are offered that are offered throughout San Jose or the San Jose Airport. In most countries and tourist spots across the globe, car rentals that offer transparent pricing with neither hidden charges nor fees work out a lot cheaper when compared with just hiring a car for a few hours to get from one place to another.
For people who do not want to spend too much on gas, Costa Rica Rental Car services offer many economy car models while there are mid-sized SUV car rentals for people who need the car for comfortable long distance travel and want plenty of room for luggage. A free ice cooler, unlimited mileage, a free road map, free San Jose drop off and pick up, etc. are some of the advantages of using this car rental service in San Jose.
Additional services that make travel convenient for travelers and tourists are also offered by them. People who would like to receive an instant quote for these rental cars can fill in their contact form at the website costarica-rentalcar.com that needs information like the best way to contact them, the travel dates, and the name of the person who would like to hire the rental car. Apart from helping people pick out a car, the service professionals help people with the various payments options and rates for quick can rental.
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