American based chauffer service Dav El Chauffer Transportation Network has joined forces with world leading car hire company Hertz in a collaboration which will now offer Hertz customers the opportunity to expand their opportunities when hiring a vehicle. Dav El has offices in 550 cities spanning the globe and offers customers around the clock access [...]

Because London can be a tiring, time consuming and complicated city to get around Sixt care hire are now offering customers who live within the capital a free pick up service when they hire a vehicle through one of their offices. Sixt rent a car has fifteen rental centres spread throughout London meaning that customers [...]

One of the country’s foremost car rental comparison sites Carrentals.co.uk has just published the results of a survey examining the health of the nation’s drivers. The responses from 1,000 drivers were examined and the results reveal that because of the credit crunch a high proportion of drivers are operating vehicles after too little sleep, experiencing [...]

Trade union Unite has announced that they are preparing a new strike ballot for British Airways members for 22nd January. If the 12,700 British Airways employees affiliated to the union agree then a strike could be held as early as March 1st. The new ballot follows a High Court decision to rule the planned strike [...]

New Zealand highway police are urging car rental firms to give out more detailed information on how to deal with the country’s roads to their customers before allowing them to get behind the wheel. Sergeant Geoff Sutherland, Southland police highway patrol boss explained that as soon as tourists land in the country they are into [...]

It would seem that not only are the roads becoming hard to navigate in the wintry weather much of the UK is having. Travel and weather related websites across Britain having been struggling to cope with the high demand that they are currently experiencing due to the snow and icy conditions. Hundreds of thousands of [...]

The buy-out firm, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, has apparently fallen short on its yearly targets. The company that is the owner of car hire giant Hertz closed the year with an accumulative $5 billion, but was short of the $7.5 billion target they had set themselves. CD&R finished the year off spending however, with the [...]

Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s office has said this week that they had information on the man who attempted to blow up a Detroit bound plane. They say they passed on data on the Nigerian national, but did not register him as a high risk suspect. The Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was included on a list [...]

Virgin Trains has had their best year to date in 2009 after the introduction of Virgin High Frequency (VHF). The service was launched on the 14th December 2008 and in their first full year they have handled 25.4 million customers to date, their best annual figures. This was largely due to the 30 per cent [...]

Monarch Airlines, one of the UK’s largest carriers, has hit out at an online betting website after it was offering odds on them becoming the next flight company to go bust. Paddy Power had odds on Monarch of 50-1 before Christmas, but dropped those odds to 4-1 after a spate of bets were laid over [...]