{"id":3914,"date":"2012-09-28T13:45:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T17:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=3914"},"modified":"2012-10-01T21:31:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T01:31:52","slug":"automobile-rental-companies-agree-on-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=3914","title":{"rendered":"Auto Rental Companies Agree On Recall Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"kaltura_player_1348853487\" height=\"221\" width=\"392\" style=\"border: 0px solid #ffffff;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdnapi.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/1_qj9m83ps\/uiconf_id\/3775332\/st_cache\/39666?referer=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/video\/rental-car-companies-enterprise-hertz-thrifty-national-support-17346968&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;addThis.playerSize=392x221&amp;freeWheel.siteSectionId=nws_offsite&amp;closedCaptionActive=true&amp;addThis.playerSize=392x221&amp;closedCaptionsOverPlayer.fontsize=12\">Unfortunately your browser does not support Iframes.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Almost eight years after Cally Houck lost her two daughters in a car accident involving a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=3200\">rental vehicle with a recall on it<\/a>, the five biggest car rental companies in the nation have agreed to support legislation that makes it illegal to rent or sell recalled vehicles.  The historic agreement represents 93% of the rental car industry:   Enterprise, Hertz, Avis, Dollar Thrifty and National.  Law makers announced the agreement on Thursday saying that they expect the Senate will pass the bill later this year. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The bill requires companies to stop renting vehicles within 24 hours of receiving a safety recall notice or within 48 hours if the recall involved more than 5,000 vehicles in a company&#8217;s fleet. The vehicles will not be rented or sold until the safety defects  are repaired.<\/li>\n<li>The companies agreed to back the legislation after some revisions, including allowing the rental of a car if there was a manufacturer approved temporary step that eliminated the safety risk until parts were available.<\/li>\n<li>Companies also would be allowed to sell a damaged recalled vehicle as junk.<\/li>\n<li>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will have authority to investigate and police rental car companies&#8217; recall safety practices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While the senators praised Houck&#8217;s advocacy along with automotive safety groups that pushed the issue, she thanked the lawmakers and industry &#8220;in memory of my treasured daughters.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately your browser does not support Iframes. Almost eight years after Cally Houck lost her two daughters in a car accident involving a rental vehicle with a recall on it, the five biggest car rental companies in the nation have agreed to support legislation that makes it illegal to rent or sell recalled vehicles. The&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=3914\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[928],"tags":[5,185,140,1115,1186,201],"class_list":["post-3914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-auto-industry","tag-auto-safety","tag-automobile-safety","tag-manufacturer-defect","tag-recalled-rental-vehicles","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3914"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3926,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914\/revisions\/3926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}