Seven common pitfalls in trailer rentalsmand how to avoid them.
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. The mileage ploy. You'd expect to be charged mileage on a rented 'actor. But on a trailer? That's really not on. A lot of corn panics do all the same.
. The accidental damage ploy. When your driver picks up a trailer, e's sometimes not encouraged to give it a thorough inspection. o bumps and dents can end up on your charge sheet instead of the uilty party's, . The damaged tyre ploy. Anyone can split a tyre. Unfortunately. Jrne rental companies use this as a convenient (and inexpensive) leans of keeping their fleet well-shod. You may well be asked to ay for a replacement based on the full retail price. . The take-it-or-leave-it ploy. The condition of some rental trailers ;,to put it mildly, a disgrace. Scruffy trailers are bad enough. ladly-maintained and unreliable ones are even worse.
The 'fair wear and tear' ploy. No rental company charges for sir wear and tear. Trouble is, their interpretation of that phrase is ,ften very narrow indeed. Frequently, it's used as a legal loophole vhich allows the cost of routine maintenance to be passed oil to .ou. Hardly fair.
i. The workshop costs ploy. It's a fact of life that trailers can get lented and scraped. To some rental companies this provides an ipportunity to make substantial extra profits on repair work. t's legitimate. But, again, it's hardly fair.
r. The delayed invoice ploy. Long after you've eturned the trailer. your invoice arrives. Vith supplementaries. It throws all your :areful budgetting and you find yourself :onducting long-winded and time!onsuming post morn /ms. ORent from York and you don't pay for mileage. You don't pay for someone else's damage because we thoroughly check out each and every trailer before your driver takes it over. @We don't pay full retail for new tyres. So why should we expect you to? ()York Trailer Rentals are part of a major trailer manufacturing group. So a scruffy, ill-maintained outfit would harm our reputation as much as it would yours. We can't afford to let you drive away with anything less than the best. Our definition of 'fair wear and tear' is exactly the same as yours. And we don't charge you for it. ( We earn our living from renting trailers. Not from overblown workshop charges. If you do have the bad luck to damage a trailer, we'll repair it, at one of our factory branches from whom we get a group discount. Which we pass on to you. °Finally, we pride ourselves in prompt and efficient accounting. It's good for business ours and yours. In short, York can rent you the trailer you want, Ala sensible rate. No aFgravation. No pitfalls.