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- <text id=92TT0070>
- <title>
- Jan. 13, 1992: Business Notes:Auto Rental
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 13, 1992 The Recession:How Bad Is It?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 45
- Business Notes
- AUTO RENTAL
- How About a Bicycle, Then?
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- <p> The price of a drive to the country just took an uphill climb
- for Hertz customers in New York City. Last week the rental-car
- agency imposed a surcharge on residents of four of the city's
- five boroughs who rent autos in the metropolitan area (spared:
- Staten Islanders). For Bronx residents, it means a $56-a-day
- boost. The firm says it aims to regain the millions of dollars
- it has lost under the state's vicarious-liability law, which
- places damage liability in the hands of a car owner--in this
- case Hertz--even if the owner isn't behind the wheel. But the
- real motive, contends New York City consumer affairs
- commissioner Mark Green, is to force a change in the law. Nine
- other states have such statutes, but the surcharge will apply
- only to New York City, where damage losses have been high.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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