| If you own a mobile car washing or mobile auto | | | | offices in many large cities to handle all of their sales in |
| detailing business then may I suggest to you finding | | | | metro areas. Instead of Enterprises or Budget's |
| new clientele in the car rental agency business? Why | | | | strategy of smaller 60-100 car facilities spread around |
| do I recommend this? Well personally having been in | | | | the town. I have been to a Superette Facility in |
| the fleet car and truck washing business for almost 3 | | | | Houston. Hertz Car Sales offices boast of being able |
| decades it has served me well cleaning for rental car | | | | to offer hassle free car sales, complete online records |
| agencies. Many small auto detailers and mobile car | | | | of maintenance, huge inventories (the Superette we |
| wash operators have not tapped into this niche | | | | toured had over 350 cars), factory warranties from |
| because they do not really understand it.To get started | | | | manufacturers on most cars, limited 12,000 mile/1 year |
| I recommend looking thru the phone book and seeing | | | | warranty on all others, competitive financing through |
| which car rental agencies exist in your area of service | | | | FMC. They are serious about selling their cars for a |
| or city. You will also need to get a quick education in | | | | high price and delivering high levels of service, so a |
| how car rental agencies work and the history behind | | | | mobile car wash company makes a great fit on their |
| the industry. Lets take Hertz Rent-a-Car for instance | | | | organization.Hertz has an excellent fleet program for |
| and talk about doing business with Hertz Rent-A-Car. | | | | companies who wish to buy one year old Ford cars or |
| You see, Hertz is the oldest car rental company in the | | | | trucks for their business all backed with Ford Motor |
| world and each car rental corporation has a unique | | | | Credit Loans or Smart leases by Ford. This program |
| history which you should study before going in to | | | | also has a claims service to go with it and a small |
| make the sales call.Believe it or not it was started in | | | | business insurance package with low rates. You as a |
| 1918 by a guy named Walter Jacobs who had 12 | | | | mobile car wash company might be interested in this |
| Model Ts'. He was only 22 at the time. He sold his | | | | as a way to expand your fleet if you like using Ford |
| business to John Hertz also President of Yellow Cab | | | | products. This program may change in the future if |
| and Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing. In 1967 | | | | Ford divests itself from such non-core business |
| Hertz became a subsidiary of RCA Corp. Hertz later | | | | models. Their truck rental business is similar to Penske, |
| was sold to UAL and then was sold to Ford Motor | | | | Ryder, U-Haul and Budget's truck rental services with |
| Company's newly formed Park Ridge Corp. Volvo | | | | packaging materials available or just a truck to use for |
| joined in with funds later in 1988. Hertz was transferred | | | | a day for business purposes or deliveries. We have |
| to Ford Motor Company from its subsidiary Park | | | | seen Hertz, Enterprise, Penske and Ryder Trucks at |
| Ridge in 1993. Hertz has also made friends with AAA | | | | Fed Ex offices during Christmas Holidays to help |
| Club, is recommended by them and gives cardholders | | | | service demand. And we have even washed them, |
| up to 15% off. American Express Car Holders also get | | | | since Fed Ex refuses to show up in a dirty vehicle to |
| the same satisfaction. If you are a small business, your | | | | deliver packages. Fed Ex and other small package |
| Chamber of Commerce also has incentives. Hertz has | | | | delivery services are a target for such truck rental |
| come along way since 1918.Today Hertz is a | | | | companies, since they often rent the trucks for as long |
| powerhouse with 377 Hertz Equipment Rental Offices | | | | as a month at a time.For locations of Hertz Equipment |
| (largest in the world), represented in 140 countries with | | | | go to their web site at: |
| 7000 worldwide rental car offices, 4600 rental offices | | | | locations of Hertz Truck Rentals: |
| in the US and Canada, 300 used car sales locations | | | | Hertz Rental Offices and Car Sales Locations to |
| and 488 truck rental locations. Hertz has been able to | | | | market to go to: |
| put their locations in high-end car repair facilities | | | | wonderful thing about working with Hertz is you can |
| prototypes such as AAA Car Care Center in | | | | detail their used cars for sale, wash the sales lots, |
| Sacramento CA and JoeAuto's prototype facility in | | | | clean their rental cars, wash their heavy equipment, |
| West Houston TX. They have put locations in BART | | | | clean the concrete at their shops or wash the trucks |
| train stations in San Francisco and in many large car | | | | they rent to customers. So when expanding your |
| dealerships that sell Ford Products. They have pick up | | | | clientele and commercial accounts, I recommend rental |
| and delivery service in over 600 locations in answer to | | | | agencies and of course Hertz is as good a place to |
| Enterprise Rent-A-Car's market share advances.Hertz | | | | start as any. So perhaps you will consider all this in |
| has opened what they call 'Superette' car sales | | | | 2006. |