Mobile Car Washing and Doing Business With Hertz Rent-A-Car

If you own a mobile car washing or mobile auto detailing business then may I suggest to you finding new clientele in the car rental agency business? Why do I recommend this? Well personally having been in the fleet car and truck washing business for almost 3 decades it has served me well cleaning for rental car agencies. Many small auto detailers and mobile car wash operators have not tapped into this niche because they do not really understand it.

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To get started I recommend looking thru the phone book and seeing which car rental agencies exist in your area of service or city. You will also need to get a quick education in how car rental agencies work and the history behind the industry. Lets take Hertz Rent-a-Car for instance and talk about doing business with Hertz Rent-A-Car. You see, Hertz is the oldest car rental company in the world and each car rental corporation has a unique history which you should study before going in to make the sales call.

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Believe it or not it was started in 1918 by a guy named Walter Jacobs who had 12 Model Ts'. He was only 22 at the time. He sold his business to John Hertz also President of Yellow Cab and Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing. In 1967 Hertz became a subsidiary of RCA Corp. Hertz later was sold to UAL and then was sold to Ford Motor Company's newly formed Park Ridge Corp. Volvo joined in with funds later in 1988. Hertz was transferred to Ford Motor Company from its subsidiary Park Ridge in 1993. Hertz has also made friends with AAA Club, is recommended by them and gives cardholders up to 15% off. American Express Car Holders also get the same satisfaction. If you are a small business, your Chamber of Commerce also has incentives. Hertz has come along way since 1918.

Today Hertz is a powerhouse with 377 Hertz Equipment Rental Offices (largest in the world), represented in 140 countries with 7000 worldwide rental car offices, 4600 rental offices in the US and Canada, 300 used car sales locations and 488 truck rental locations. Hertz has been able to put their locations in high-end car repair facilities prototypes such as AAA Car Care Center in Sacramento CA and JoeAuto's prototype facility in West Houston TX. They have put locations in BART train stations in San Francisco and in many large car dealerships that sell Ford Products. They have pick up and delivery service in over 600 locations in answer to Enterprise Rent-A-Car's market share advances.

Hertz has opened what they call 'Superette' car sales offices in many large cities to handle all of their sales in metro areas. Instead of Enterprises or Budget's strategy of smaller 60-100 car facilities spread around the town. I have been to a Superette Facility in Houston. Hertz Car Sales offices boast of being able to offer hassle free car sales, complete online records of maintenance, huge inventories (the Superette we toured had over 350 cars), factory warranties from manufacturers on most cars, limited 12,000 mile/1 year warranty on all others, competitive financing through FMC. They are serious about selling their cars for a high price and delivering high levels of service, so a mobile car wash company makes a great fit on their organization.

Hertz has an excellent fleet program for companies who wish to buy one year old Ford cars or trucks for their business all backed with Ford Motor Credit Loans or Smart leases by Ford. This program also has a claims service to go with it and a small business insurance package with low rates. You as a mobile car wash company might be interested in this as a way to expand your fleet if you like using Ford products. This program may change in the future if Ford divests itself from such non-core business models. Their truck rental business is similar to Penske, Ryder, U-Haul and Budget's truck rental services with packaging materials available or just a truck to use for a day for business purposes or deliveries. We have seen Hertz, Enterprise, Penske and Ryder Trucks at Fed Ex offices during Christmas Holidays to help service demand. And we have even washed them, since Fed Ex refuses to show up in a dirty vehicle to deliver packages. Fed Ex and other small package delivery services are a target for such truck rental companies, since they often rent the trucks for as long as a month at a time.

For locations of Hertz Equipment go to their web site at:

http://www.hertzequip.com

For locations of Hertz Truck Rentals:

https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/byr/index.jsp?
targetPage=browseLocationView.jsp&leftNavUserSelection=globNav_3_1

For Hertz Rental Offices and Car Sales Locations to market to go to:

https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/index.jsp?
targetPage=reservationOnHomepage.jsp

The wonderful thing about working with Hertz is you can detail their used cars for sale, wash the sales lots, clean their rental cars, wash their heavy equipment, clean the concrete at their shops or wash the trucks they rent to customers. So when expanding your clientele and commercial accounts, I recommend rental agencies and of course Hertz is as good a place to start as any. So perhaps you will consider all this in 2006.

Mobile Car Washing and Doing Business With Hertz Rent-A-Car

"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is an online writer in retirement.

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Mobile Auto Detailing and Mobile Car Washing for Used Car Dealers and Rental Sales Lots

If you own a Mobile Auto Detailing and Mobile Car Washing Company and are looking to increase your customer base and get some solid customers to help your business you may wish to consider washing for Used Car Dealers and Rental Sales Lots. But the mobile car-cleaning entrepreneur is also advised to pick and choose their customers quickly and thus learn a little bit about the industry of used cars and rental cars first.

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Used car dealers have had some tough times in the past, and many of these can go out of business or string you out for payment, but the Rent-A-Car Company used lots are backed by a big corporation which means your chances of not being paid for work completed are very low. Also many times these dealers will be a lead into detailing of cars to be sold and also for washing at airport lots and main Rent-A-Car lots.

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All you need is to get your foot in the door. Some of the Rent-A-Car companies with the most pre-owned car dealership lots are Thrifty, Budget, Hertz, National, Enterprise, and Rent-A-Wreck. Some have large one or two-day sales events to get rid of a lot of cars at one time while maintaining year round lots. Some of these dealership divisions cater to credit unions and others do self-financing. All these strategies are employed periodically to maximize sales.

A Mobile Auto Detailing and Mobile Car Washing Entrepreneur should be looking at these markets as long-term markets and as they expand their market penetration and their businesses get bigger they can introduce seal coats, reconditioning and other detailing add-ons. Consider this in 2006.

Mobile Auto Detailing and Mobile Car Washing for Used Car Dealers and Rental Sales Lots

"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is an online writer in retirement.

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Mobile Truck Washing Companies Should Consider Rental Truck Yards as Customers

The mobile truck washing companies typically wash fleets of vehicles, yet we have always found that most truck washing companies skip the niche of Rental Trucks for larger fleets and in doing so this leaves the niche fairly wide open for the mobile truck washing entrepreneur who is looking to boost accounts and increase sales.

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Budget, like Hertz and Enterprise, also has truck divisions that sell their used trucks and vans. Some of the Budget Rent-A-Truck Divisions are quite large and have many units to sell. Trucks do not sell as fast as cars and therefore you get to wash them more times on the lots before they sell. Especially until the used truck market gets back to normal. It was down 55% from 2000 to 2005. Currently business is still under performing on the used truck rental sector, but the rental yards are indeed good places to wash at.

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Then there is also the rental car sales too; Enterprise Car Sales seem to be quite abundant and tend to have as many as 6-8 Car Sales lots in large metro areas such as Houston, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, Atlanta, Orlando, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago, and St Louis type cities. Also large in sales for used cars are Ugly Duckling in TX, FL, CA, AZ. Hertz with 7000 car rental agency office also has over 600,000 cars a year to sell. All in all mobile car washers and mobile truck washers must consider this viable niche if they are serious in increasing their account base and sales volumes, so consider all this in 2006.

Mobile Truck Washing Companies Should Consider Rental Truck Yards as Customers

"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is an online writer in retirement.

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