Talk:Fleet vehicle

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[edit] Miles

well, I need to disagree with the hundreds of thousands of miles a rental car is supposed to have before it is sold. I have heard that cars are kept for no longer than 30000 miles because they become too expensive as far as maintenance is concerned. I myself never had a rental with more than 12K miles on the meter. :-) And also the sabotage needs to be backed up by a quote to make it credible. So we should consider revision of those parts! I am going to add on to the article after that. -- Boereck 18:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, this isn't an article about rental vehicles so much as it is about fleet vehicles. I can only give you my own experience, but many of the ambulances I drove at work had well over 100,000 miles on them, several had more than 200,000 miles, and I remember one had 257,000 and change. For rentals, well, yes, if you rent from Avis or Hertz, you're unlikely to get a car with high mileage, at least in the 48 contiguous states. But I once rented a 25-year-old U-Haul - I don't remember how many miles it had on its odometer, but I'm sure you can imagine that after a quarter century of hauling everything but the kitchen sink, the truck wasn't pristine or low-mileage. There are also companies such as Rent-A-Wreck that tend to have slightly older fleets of passenger cars, though these cars may not approach the 100,000 mile mark.

For sabatoge, I don't have any peer reviewed articles (I haven't looked), but again, from my own experience, those ambulances suffered for the perceived crimes of the company - never anything major, though I remember one or two stereos being smashed; mostly it was just ball point pen graffiti on the steering wheel, headliner, sun visor, etc. Some of that was probably also boredom, so perhaps sabatoge isn't the best term. I also seem to recall notations in my car's owner's manual that "fleet service" vehicles required more frequent oil changes --Badger151 07:17, 2 September 2006 (UTC)