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I travel for work more than I like, which is still less than once-a-month, but when I travel I am always forced to rent cars from Hertz.  Even though my company has a corporate rate, I always thought the price was high somewhere in the low $40 s / day for a Chevy Bruze Cruze.  Every Japanese company has ongoing kaizen activities also known as cost reduction activities, but they never look at rental cars. I remember just after the earthquake in Japan, we were told to shut off our lights for an hour during lunch time even though half the workers are still in the office.  This amounted to somewhere around grove park inn ashville nc a dollar a week savings.  And in the same memo, we were told to rent the smallest car possible when we travel.  We could only get a midsize car if 4 or more people were traveling.  Two weeks later our higher up rolled-in in an Audi.  Guess he only signs the memo s, doesn t read them.
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