Dollar Car Rental – A Simple Guide

Not everyone owns a car.  Sometimes even car owners are without their car.  It could be a vacation or business trip need.  Sometimes people don’t want to drive their own car on a long trip.  Wear and tear can be minimized this way. That’s where Dollar car rental can enter the picture.

Imagine this scenario. You live in the suburbs. You work in the city. Your home is within a few blocks of the train station. Since you spend so much of your time at work, why have a car sitting in a paid parking space? Nobody drives the car while you’re at work. So it makes sense to plan errands such as shopping for a Saturday. On that day a car can be rented from a company like Dollar car rental or Budget or Avis. Drive it around town to do all the things needed for that day, use it to drive to the local movie theater that evening, then return it on Sunday. Most likely for less that all your car needs have been met. Compare that cost – for a day over the course of 52 weeks is 40 – to the purchase price of a car plus all the associated costs like maintenance, insurance, registration, emissions, and more which add up to thousands of dollars each year. The rental car is a better deal.

For people who need the car every day, a purchase is a better option. Maybe the kids need a lift to school each day, but the school bus isn’t convenient for the family and it doesn’t get them to sports practices and music lessons. Maybe the typical daily tasks and errands require more travel and carrying than would be workable on a bus or train schedule. Then it’s like the song lyrics “Buy buy buy” a car. But with a little planning there’s no purchase necessary, just rent from Dollar car rental for the short term use.

Businesses for which employees travel a lot have to pay mileage reimbursement. That’s often in the neighborhood of fifty cents or more per mile. If someone drives 100 miles that adds up to each day. Renting a car from Dollar car rentals or Budget is only $20 each day, plus $12 for a few gallons of gas is still only $32 for that same 100 mile day. It makes sense, then, for companies to consider a Dollar car rental instead of having employees drive their own cars on business.