The process of renting a car is one dark pattern after the other
I also despise dark patterns that car rental involves. Fortunately, two things make it easy to rent a car from Hertz (or probably any other major):
1) work for a company that has a corporate rental agreement with Hertz. All the bullshit about collision damage waivers, liability insurance, etc. just goes away.
2) sign up for their "rewards" program (the name differs by company). This puts all your important info into their computers. That way they aren't constantly re-entering info from your drivers license, etc.
3) There is a third option. You should rent trucks instead! :)
Just kidding about trucks being a real alternative. But whenever I rent from U-Haul it's absurdly pleasant, compared to renting cars as an individual. For example, the collision damage waiver for a car rental can be $30 a day or more. The same thing was only $10 on my most recent U-Haul rental.
I also despise dark patterns that car rental involves. Fortunately, two things make it easy to rent a car from Hertz (or probably any other major):
1) work for a company that has a corporate rental agreement with Hertz. All the bullshit about collision damage waivers, liability insurance, etc. just goes away.
2) sign up for their "rewards" program (the name differs by company). This puts all your important info into their computers. That way they aren't constantly re-entering info from your drivers license, etc.
3) There is a third option. You should rent trucks instead! :)
Just kidding about trucks being a real alternative. But whenever I rent from U-Haul it's absurdly pleasant, compared to renting cars as an individual. For example, the collision damage waiver for a car rental can be $30 a day or more. The same thing was only $10 on my most recent U-Haul rental.