Which is where I am today and for the next two days. It’s nice, but hot. Flew down on Jet Blue, which I’ve always had good luck with. The hotel is nice and like many these days has free WiFi. Wired Internet is so 2000.
One strange thing I noticed was the Hertz rental car. A nice, if generically bland GM, Saturn Aura. The odd thing was the mileage. 44668 miles. That’s an awful lot for a rental car as big outfits like Hertz usually rotate their cars out at between 18-20K miles so they still have a lot of residual value. Only with the car market so bad there isn’t that much demand so used cars, even well maintained ones, don’t seem to be moving very well. The nice lady at the exit to the rental lot said that all of the cars are being kept for many more miles and that Hertz hasn’t been buying very new ones.
Don’t get me wrong, the car was nice and clean, and in good condition. It had more than the normal number of minor dings on the outside, and at one time they all would have been fixed by now. Just a sign of the times I guess.
Blogging might be a bit light while I’m down here since we have a lot to do and not much time to do it in.
Rehearsal dinner tonight, wedding tomorrow night, some spare time in between to walk around downtown. Flying back Monday.
I have a post with Ambulance Driver says is good blog fodder. I might put it up this weekend or early next week depending. I just want to go over it and make sure it’s sufficiently anonymous. My EMS readers will sympathize, my non EMS readers will get good idea of what we sometimes have to put up with.
Enjoy your weekend, I’m going to enjoy mine.
Rental car mileage has been heading north for at least a couple years. They're squeezing a few more miles out of them to keep their costs lower.
No doubt, but rental cars used to be a prime source of used cars. The big companies like Hertz sold their cherry rentals directly or returned them to the manufacturers. The not so cherry cars went to either second tier rental or used car companies. Now, the top tier market doesn't exist, so they have to run their cars longer. Which of course also depresses new car sales. I expect that when the economy turns around, this will reverse itself once again.
JetBlue is majority-shareholder-owned by George Soros – the man who wants to take away our guns.
Enjoy your stay in our fine state. 🙂
Here's the info on Soros from the NRA.http://www.nraila.org/Issues/factsheets/read.aspx?ID=151But I think if you looked at the politics of most of the airline shareholders it would curl your hair. I'm just glad you got there safe, and hope you have a wonderful time.
As much as I try not to patronize anti 2A businesses, sometimes it's unavoidable. I try not to use HP products for the same reason, but since my employer buys their stuff exclusively for printing, I have no choice.When possible, I use pro 2A companies.
Pistolero, I always enjoy myself in Texas. The problem being that I never get down here often enough or long enough.
Enjoy TOTW 🙂 And yeah, the rent a wreck business is getting worse! I had a Chevy from Hertz last week with 62k on the clock. They are probably going to hold them till 80k before dumping based on what the manager was telling me.