Rental Car Strategies for Major Regional Events

As a former franchisor often have a franchise in certain areas which should respond to major regional events. State Fairs, on-site film shoots, Nascar events, festival events, or the Super Bowl football game, and natural disasters, as well. These types of events caused by local franchisees because they could not get the work done. You can see our franchisees have been involved in mobile on-site car wash, concrete cleaning, and general power washing.

During major events there are additional vehicles in the area to be cleaned, and then a big job to clean up afterwards. This would completely overwhelm one of our franchise, and thus other franchisees to bring in their own units, and the crew help. After a natural disaster, it is something that Servicemaster and other companies do what they want to bring in additional teams to help flood damage, and cleaning. It is quite common in the franchising industry.

This is also something that rental car agencies must do, because when more people come into town there are not enough rental cars in the area to handle the attack. Cities such as Las Vegas, Orlando, Nashville and other areas with high concentrations of large events can usually be worn, but not always. In the case of large networks the car rental agency franchise and corporate locations band together to try to service the demand, and take a chance.

This can often become a logistical nightmare, because those cars or be transported into the area, or put on a car carrier and shipper in the rent. It also costs extra money, time and vehicles that are rented shall be rented at a higher rate to pay the extra cost. Also car rental agencies do not want to stay without a car, because it leaves a negative image in the mindset of customers, who may be regular customers and work out its customer loyalty rewards programs.

then there is a question of getting all the cars clean and they have enough staff available to help rent the cars. It is not easy, and employing people at the local level without training can also be a problem. Therefore, the transfer of up to several weeks ahead of time, but they do not want those cars sitting idle for too long before the main event. It must be carefully coordinated, and fortunately the car rental agencies got it down to a science. Next time you rent a car when you go to a major event, think about all this and think about it.