Posted on July 05, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

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Picking up UK car hire  this week? Watch out for the ‘hand-bags at dawn’ scenario that’s waging at airport trolley bays.
What’s it all about?
Something of a ‘trolley-gate’ row has broken out after the fee for renting a baggage trolley mysteriously doubled from £1 to £2 overnight.
Last week, passengers flying into and [...]

Posted on December 03, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

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This Xmas, GPS is getting its ghetto on.
TomToms, the leading light in GPS technology has recruited the dulcet tones of hiphop ‘Dogfather’ Snoop Dogg to help you navigate your way around the ‘hood.
Snoop Dogg is the latest celebrity to lend his voice to TomTom’s VoiceSkin series.
Already, Homer Simpson has been shepherding lost drivers [...]

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

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The next time you’re driving in the rain and you spot a big glassy puddle, you might just want to ignore that mischievous little devil on your shoulder that urges you to splash the nearest passers-by…it could cost you in penalty points.
A female driver in the UK learned this the hard way and [...]

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

UK car hire customers are set to find chivalry alive and kicking on British roads if all goes to plan for Road Respect Day, a new initiative being launched by the RAC that aims to put manners on the nation’s drivers.
According to RAC research, being followed too closely, spotting drivers talking on their mobile phones and being cut [...]

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

So you’ve saved on your car hire by booking with Argus, but what happens when you get out on the open-road and you’re running low on fuel, food and er, money.�
Well, the web is awash with all kinds of sites that promise to locate the cheapest places to fill-up on fuel and snacks, but the [...]

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

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Yesterday we received a question from a customer who was confused about why he was asked to bring two documents as part of his UK licence when picking-up his rental car.�
Here’s our response:
UK licences issued since July 1998 consist of two parts, a photo ID and a paper counterpart.  Old style paper licences are valid until [...]