AVIS have a number of different vehicle categories reduced to as low as $10/day for essential workers
Also includes reduced excess
Are there any insurance options you can buy outside the rental shop?
How do you get your car insured when you hire a car?
Yes absolutely. Read the article I posted and it tells you about it. I used https://www.carhireexcess.com.au/ previously. So much cheaper. Don't buy it from the rental shop, the price is exorbitant. They try to upsell as well, just tell them you have insurance through a third party. It's usually better than the rental shop as well, they often don't cover for things like hitting an animal.
Is this really hire care insurance or hire car access insurance?
Some credit cards include it free of you get the rental with it.
According to my Qantas credit card, they only cover me if I take out all available excess reductions through the car hire company :-(
@CookieJacker31: "as part of the hiring arrangement You must take up all comprehensive motor insurance offered by the Car Rental Company, whether discretionary or mandatory, against loss or
damage to the Hire Car"
Since most hire car companies have a $0 excess option, what does the credit card actually cover???
@sharkfan12: A single vehicle accident. The $0 excess option is only applicable where you are in an accident with another (one or more) vehicles and you get their details.
Read the fine print (may vary between different rental companies). My experience has been primarily with Hertz and Thrifty.
For the purposes of this offer, Avis considers essential workers to be:
Health and Social Care Workers
Paramedics/Ambulance Workers
Support, Disability & Aged Care Workers
Pharmacist and Pharmacy Workers
Public Safety and National Security Workers
Education & Childcare Workers
Supermarket and Grocery Store Workers
Airport Workers
Always dangerous to publish a list, as it is then open for criticism.
What about the garbos, couriers, post office workers, etc. Not detracting from the occupations listed, but surely some of these are just as 'essential' as airport workers (purely as an example)?
What about the researchers and scientists working extremely long hours to find a treatment?
I agree, I went looking because I was curious if Avis shared a similar opinion to the PM as to who is essential.
Avis have all their inventory sitting around doing nothing at the moment and possibly incurring storage fees so this is the way to get them out the door without giving the deals to everyone.
my mate is an environmental scientist with a water authority. he is keeping your drinking water running at the moment. sounds pretty essential to me. of course he also has a company car so…
I feel some of those listings are bit of a grey area too. "Education & Childcare Workers" for instance; includes in-house campus admin/maintenance?
Or for myself - Safety Officer designated as first aid, in Public Sector; Would I qualify as "Public Safety and National Security Workers"?
Airport workers is an easy one to explain. Avis is trying to ingratiate themselves with their major landlords whom they are no doubt currently tapping for significant rent relief to which they have no legal or contractual entitlement …
I think it's incredibly unlikely that the airport landlords would remotely care whether Avis provide cheap rentals to staff they have zero responsibility for or not.
@callum9999: It's a terrible look on the one hand to be saying to the airport owner 'please give us a rest reduction' and on the other hand saying we have these special deals for 'essential workers' but all your employees aren't essential.
Scomo must have been lying, when he told me I was essential
i've always thought of myself as pretty unessential, but the government confirmed it when they closed down my entire industry as pretty much their first priority.
Your job is essential. You are optional. If someone else could be hired to do your job instead…
That's how I interpreted what he said.
What an ignorant and condescending comment by sco-mo.
In other words, generally speaking, anyone who belongs to a Union…
Shut up
Putting their life on the line so they can treat our sick citizens and so we can go back to normality at some point? Give them (profanity) benefits and stop being an (profanity).
can you please link some of these facts, genuinely curious
i bet they are hoping to make money on all the damage that is caused ….
Hardly. $5 per day to reduce the excess.
Damage caused.. by lack of business, perhaps?
Given that travel is basically banned, I assume all these cars are just sitting there doing nothing.
This has gone too far.
My youngest kid came home crying from day care last week. Some punk told him "Your mum's a non-essential worker!" (my son may or may not have called him a "poo poo head" first).
It's true. But she just took a job to pay the rent. She's not such a bad person most of the time.
lol
Username checks out
those are sophisticated words for what sounds like kindergartners lol
FYI, it appears that Avis are also limiting the car rentals to 100km, $0.25 per km after that.
and police hide outside waiting for you, $16xx gone
If you don't believe in AVIS then you've got no soul.
Don't suppose they have a deal on moving trucks for essential workers who have been forced to move to reduce the risk of infecting high risk people in their primary residence??? :(
How do people prove they work in super market of grocery store ? Then this offers for everyone really…
Bring a pay slip or show Id?
No-one seems to have mentioned that Hertz and Ford were offering this for free the other day:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/529784
Because that post if for healthcare workers, where as this one is for essential workers
Yes, but so is this deal also offered to healthcare workers.
For them, this is not the best deal.
and?
My power steering has just sprung a bad leak so thought this would be brilliant to get me to work for the next few days during the repair. Put in all my details and forgot to apply the discount code: every type of car available. I go back and put in exactly the same details but with the discount code: suddenly no cars available. Yeah, thanks very much Avis 😠.
maybe a bit late, but was the car hire you selected for >4 days? I tried the same for a one day hire the person in chat advised me a minimum of 4 day rental.
Tried to rent a car using this discount and got told that “school and university” staff do not qualify under “education workers” which baffled me so I asked what their definition of “education workers” were and was told only “Government office workers in the department of education”.
Was this at the hire desk when you picked up the car? I am a university staff member at can't see how on earth this is not an "education worker" as per their T&C? What did you do about it?
Same here - Uni staff. Yes, at the desk. I then rang their call centre to clarify "education workers" and that's when I was told only office workers in the DoE. Was quite unimpressed - couldn't do anything really.
There are no cars available, and it's not on their website any more. Expired?
The rate is still available (today). The online system actually allows me to book a car that runs into July as long as pick up date is 30/6 or earlier.
HOWEVER, AVIS will NOT allow this rate beyond 30/6 in reality. I turned up to my local AVIS and called AVIS to verify. Basically, this rate will be valid for return by 30/6.
So if you need a day's worth of car hire today, you can still get it.
Good prices for car hire. Don't buy insurance policies at the car hire place as they are a rort.
https://www.choice.com.au/travel/on-holidays/car-hire/articl…