Avis desert rate war
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AVIS Truck Rental has accused cutting and says it is not going to
Managing director of Avis Truck Rental Bill Johnston said last week that the competitors in the truck rental market had increased their rates, published tariffs and then offered cut rates verbally on individual deals.
"The published tariffs are no more than window dressing," declared Mr Johnston.
He said that this rate-cutting is taking place in the day-to-day spot hire deals, a market that took a nose dive in January and has never recovered.
But Avis is to keep its published tariffs, except where discounts are given for volume or long-term rental. It expects to be able to hold these tariffs for at least another six months. other rental companies of rateget involved in this type of war. At the same time, Avis has introduced a finance lease scheme offering a Leyland T45 and a Volvo F10 ready for the road, except for road fund licence, for £483 per month and £504 per month respectively. • Meanwhile, in a written parliamentary reply, Mr Clarke has said that the most common causes of failure at annual tests between April and December 1979 were brake pipes and reservoirs; mechanical brake components; obligatory stop lamps; smoke emission; oil leaks; transmissions; suspension (attachments); fuel tanks and system; and steering linkages.
Of the 6,339 immediate prohibitions issued by the licensing authorities in the traffic year 1978479, Mr Clarke said that defects recorded on such prohibition notices are not analysed and that it is likely that the main reasons would follow a similar pattern to those causing failure at the annual test,