The key to dealing with rental agencies: Bring it back clean and without obvious damage (I.E. "walk-around" damage). Having rented cars for work multiple times that not only went off the government roads, but were down in holes the rental agency never knew existed..... One trip cost me and my partner about $15 in quarters to wash the coal slurry off it, but we never heard a single peep from the rental agency. That's the trip where I found that a Jeep Liberty is worthless in sloppy mine pit conditions.
SRK
hank Wrote:
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> > Just
> > keep in mind that virtually all rental agencies
> > strictly prohibit the use of their vehicles
> away
> > from paved roads.
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> One year back in the misty past (2001) I was
> reading the contract on a rental car (Hertz)
> whilst my child did shower and came across that
> clause. "Oops" said I (or words to that effect.)
> The next Summer I asked the nice lady at the
> rental place about that, pointing out that there
> were a lot of places you can't get to without
> going on a gravel road (IIRC I used the North Rim
> of the Black Canyon National Monument [now a park,
> I hope it's still gravel] as an example) and she
> told that what they really meant by "paved" was
> "maintained by the government". So I went on my
> happy way, secure in the knowledge that the
> National Forest Service is part of the
> government.
> Of course that was quite a while ago, and only
> Batman had GPS in his car back then, but it might
> be worth asking...
> Hank