More Than 160 Former Hertz Customers Are Suing Company Over Claims It Falsified Stolen Car Reports,

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Landing Some Drivers In Jail

A slew of former Hertz Car Rental customers are suing the company for allegedly having them falsely arrested and jailed.

More than 165 customers from Delaware, California, Florida, Illinois and other states have come forward filing legal complaints against Hertz. Each of them claiming to have rented cars from the company only to be stopped, arrested, and sometimes jailed over accusations that the vehicle was reported missing.

The customers who each have rental agreements and bank statements to prove their innocence say that Hertz’s unreliable system and filing of false stolen car reports is to blame. For instance, James Tolen of Houston recalled being stopped by police last year, just two days before Christmas.

“It was just terrifying. It was bad. Actually, I was really thinking that I wasn’t gonna make it home,” he recounted to CBS News. Tolen and his wife, Krystal Carter, say they rented from Hertz at least twelve times that year.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/lost-everything-more-160-former-223800067.html

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1. This (should) destroy Hertz.

[dalton99a]

2. "Sometimes, Hertz rents out cars it has already reported stolen."

Brian Steinberg, 62, of Brigantine, N.J., was on vacation in Las Vegas in 2018 when he rented a Toyota Corolla from Hertz. The next morning Steinberg, a retired community college instructor, parked at the Flamingo Casino to pick up a pair of Wayne Newton show tickets.

When he returned to his car, he found police waiting.

“I was detained for three hours,” Steinberg said. “They treated me like I was a criminal.”

Six days before Steinberg rented the Corolla, real car thieves had broken into a Hertz office in nearby Henderson, Nev., and made off with 25 sets of keys and five cars. A Hertz employee reported the Corolla stolen along with the others. It hadn’t been taken. Apparently, staffers did not check all the rental bays. Steinberg had been given the Corolla.

https://www.inquirer.com/business/retail/hertz-stolen-car-grand-theft-auto-malofiy-bankruptcy-lawsuit-20200803.html

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3. Many years ago I was a U-Haul Truck & Trailer Dealer

We were using all paper & pen contracts and I would receive trucks & trailers that were listed as stolen upon return by the dispatch center, but had been redispatched/rented by another dealer without reporting the dispatch. We took reports of stolen U-hauls with a grain of salt and so did the police. With bar codes and computers this should have been fixed by Hertz.

[FakeNoose]

4. How do they know, it might have been Hertz employees?

If Hertz was filing Chapter 11, maybe a few Hertz employees were stealing receipts and covered their tracks by claiming the cars were stolen. It's not so unlikely, if the employees wanted to see the company go under.

[twin_ghost]

5. That is a possibility...

we had U-Haul dealers take trucks, get in a accident and then report them stolen.