Posted on March 10, 2011 by Fiona Hilliard

Planning a road trip across the US can be as confusing as it is exciting.  How do you know where to start, where to end and what to include? There’s always the risk of wasting time on well-worn trails and missing out on hidden gems.  Fortunately, Eric Theriault of myscenicdrives.com is on hand to point [...]

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia Who knew it was so hard to drive a US rental car into Canada? Guess what? Right now it is ILLEGAL. Really? Yep. Under current regulations, Canadian residents entering Canada in non-Canadian vehicles (such as rented vehicles registered in the US) do not meet the conditions for the temporary importation of non-Canadian [...]

Posted on December 02, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia In any other sector of the US travel industry the answer would be a big fat ‘YES’.  This is not strictly the case when it comes to US car hire.   For years car rental agencies have put up with the inconvenience of no-shows and now they’ve decided that they’ve had enough. Up [...]

Posted on November 09, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia Now here’s a story to make you smile on a dreary Monday. A couple of Los Angeles car hire customers brought joy to a young boy in Reno when they reunited him with his wallet after discovering it accidentally under the front seat of their rental car vehicle in an airport car park. [...]

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 [...]

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

Those looking forward to an authentic US road trip in an all-American Ford or Chevrolet might just have to make do with a Nissan this year. For the first time in history, car rental companies in the US are purchasing more foreign cars than those manufactured in their own country.  This year, just 49 per [...]