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The Car Rental Funny Side - BestCarHire.com Meets Dilbert

When you want to hire a car, you want a company who can provide the best choice of vehicles, with the best car hire packages. Whether you want a hire car for business or to rent a vehicle for pleasure, the BestCarHire.com can provide a choice of 550 vehicle suppliers in 30,000 locations around the world.

Many thanks to www.Dilbert.com

About the Author
Malcolm McNeill is CEO of www.BestCarHire.com offering clients the ability to search and rent a vehicle of their choice - anytime and anywhere

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Download the latest car rental iPad app here.
Also try our new Motorhome rental site HolidayCampervan.com.

Faro Car Rental Deals from BestCarHire.com

If you are going on holiday to Portugal, BestCarHire.com can save you money by offering you low rates for longer term car hires in September.

Please see sample of prices below.Please visit our website for more bargains and further details.

About the Author
Malcolm McNeill is CEO of www.BestCarHire.com offering clients the ability to search and rent a vehicle of their choice - anytime and anywhere
Follow BestCarHire on Twitter, FaceBook and Google+
Download the latest car rental iPad app here.
Also try our new Motorhome rental site HolidayCampervan.com.

Edinburgh And The Tracks of My Tears

Edinburgh in Scotland has been building a new tram system for the past 10 years. It has been fraught with scandal and disappointment, but at long last there is light at the end of the Haymarket tunnel - bear with me commuters! 

Currently the traffic is abysmal, and has been for many years. The trams were brought in to save an ailing road and transport infrastructure but in doing so have created more jams and road rage than you would ever think possible.

So what happens when the trams finally start running, how will the car drivers cope?

From evidence gleaned from around the WWWinternet, well it would appear that most tram accidents occur without cars being involved. The types of accidents we can look forward to are:

Bikes getting their wheels stuck in the ruts and discarding the unlucky cyclist

Blind people falling from the platform

Sighted people falling

Trams failing to stop and hitting the tram in front

Suicide

Drunk people falling under trams

Cars hitting pedestrians risking life and limb to catch the tram (literally)

And so on....

I myself was a young boy when Glasgow discarded its tram and trolley bus network. A daft move in most people's opinion. The trams in Glasgow produced many a character in the shape of the tram conductors or clippies, notorious for their ambiguous cry at ticketless louts - " Come oan - Get aff!"

LATEST UPDATE - The trams finally opened in Scotland's capital 
at the end of May 2014 after years of delay, spiraling costs and a lengthy dispute between the city council and its contractor.

The project was due to cost £375 million when announced in 2003 but that figure has risen to around £776 million to date.

Organisers also backtracked on plans to create a number of different tram lines, instead launching a single track running from Edinburgh's New Town to the airport.

Edinburgh Trams

Don't Look Back - Look Ahead to Holiday Deals

With the spring and summer holidays approaching its time to put the dreary winter weather behind us an jet off to warmer climates.
BestCarHire.com can help you find the best deals going when it comes to car and van rental worldwide.
Here's an example of some of the deals currently on offer in Euros.

• Faro Airport, Portugal from €11 per day
• Orlando Airport, USA from €21 per day
• Alicante Airport, Spain from €13 per day
• Mallorca Airport, Spain from €14 per day
• Nice Airport, France from €19 per day
• Milan Airport, Italy from €24 per day
• Malaga Airport, Spain from €10 per day
• Lisbon Airport, Portugal from €11 per day
• Las Vegas Airport, USA from €11 per day
• London Heathrow Airport, UK from €16 per day

Please use Currency Converter on our site at www.BestCarHire.com for your local currency equivalent.

Please Visit our website at www.BestCarHire.com for more details or download the iPhone and iPad apps from Download.com- http://tinyurl.com/brfcphs

Malcolm McNeill
www.BestCarHire.com

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About the author
Malcolm McNeill is a well established IT consultant based in Glasgow, Scotland. His brainchild website www.BestCarHire.com was only launched in late 2012 but can now boast of many satisfied customers worldwide

Get A Grip - The Dangers of Part Worn Tyres

In this age of austerity one type of business which appears to be on the up are the outlets that trade on part-worn tyres.

In the past these tended to be restricted to seedy locations, underneath railway arches, but nowadays they seem to be rolling out in more obvious areas sporting colours and bunting which would be the envy of the more famous, high street favourite like Kwik-Fit, ATS, Tyrewise and the rest.

Whilst we can understand, in these challenging times, that the pennies are tight and we sometimes have to shop around for bargains, what price is safety?

In 2012  a study was carried out by  Tyresafe, one of the UK’s leading tyre safety organisations, dedicated to raising awareness about the dangers associated with defective or illegal tyres. The study, which involved the purchase of 50 random part-worn tyres from retailers across the UK, found that 98% were being sold illegally as they did not meet current requirements.

Of the tyres examined it was discovered that 33% contained faults which could prove to be fatal.

In 2012 there were more than 1200 road casualties where illegal, defective or under-inflated tyres were a contributory factor.

In another study compiled by Birmingham City Council, among the failures were tyres which had nails embedded, illegal tread depth, exposed cords, inadequate markings and one tyre which was 17 years old.

In the USA according to Safety Research & Strategies,
This as you can imagine means for lots of surplus tyres as a whole country changes tyres at least once a year. Tyre fitters usually buy these by the container load and sell them on as part worns at a cheaper price”.

“A tyre that can appear new on the outside can be compromised internally as the material and chemical properties of the tyre have changed significantly, increasing the risk of catastrophic tread / belt separation.  Think of those old rubber bands in your desk—when new and fresh they are very elastic, as they age the rubber properties change.  Stretching will result in cracking and they break much easier and more quickly then when they were new.  Yet, age does not automatically disqualify a tyre from the used tire market. Often—but not always—used tyres are older than new tires and stored, before sale, in conditions that may contribute to rapid deterioration”.

So where do the part-worn tyres originate?

According to one source on the web – “Certain countries (namely Germany) require by law for drivers to use winter tyres.  

Other areas include tyres removed from car wrecks or have had a puncture too close to the tyre wall for a reputable tyre trader to fix the puncture.

Why risk your own life along with fellow passengers and not forgetting other possible road travellers

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So you have to ask yourself – is it worth it?

At BestCarHire.com we deal with 550 vehicle suppliers in 30,000 locations worldwide.

Please Visit our website at www.BestCarHire.com for more details or download the iPhone and iPad apps from   Download.com- http://tinyurl.com/brfcphs

Malcolm McNeill
www.BestCarHire.com

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About the author
Malcolm McNeill is a well established IT consultant based in Glasgow, Scotland. His brainchild website www.BestCarHire.com was only launched in late 2012 but can now boast of many satisfied customers worldwide

Purchasing Managers - How BestCarHire Can Cut Your Costs.

According to the dictionary, procurement means the acquiring of goods or services. These goods and services must be relevant and they should be procured at the best price to ensure that they meet the needs of the purchaser in terms of quality and quantity, time, and location. Large organisations and public bodies often develop processes to ensure that they are accountable and indeed auditable, and promote a competitive purchasing environment for their business while minimizing exposure to fraud and collusion.

So take an organisation which depends on finding transportation for its employees at home and abroad. To leave the responsibility of hiring a car to a travelling employee is both inconvenient for the employee as well as being potentially not cost effective. The employee is likely to go for the first rental company he or she comes across and request the most inefficient vehicle for the most inappropriate price. 

You can change that by switching your corporate car rental procurement to using www.BestCarHire.com.

By downloading the iPad app, the iPhone app or indeed by using the BestCarHire website you will be in control of all your car rental purchasing at a more manageable price.

Here's an example - a London based utilities company is sending Jim a water quality expert to discuss a potential water cleansing project with a partner organisation in Dubai.

Using the BestCarHire iPad app from the offices in London, Sheila, the company's procurement assistant is able to key in the vehicle pickup location (Dubai Airport) the rental duration (7 days) the drop off location (Dubai Airport). 
She is then returned a variety of vehicles and costs, ranging from a Citroen C1 @ £13.79 per day to a Mercedes E280 @ £128 per day. So before Jim leaves London his car is already chosen for him, paid for and ready for his arrival in busy Dubai airport. One less thing for Jim to worry about and more importantly, one more thing that Sheila has done help to manage the company's costs. 

And to show how nice we are we've even thrown in a useful Currency Converter - handy for any cross- border transactions.

So let's see if BestCarHire can help you in a similar fashion!

Please Visit our website at www.BestCarHire.com for more details or download the iPhone and iPad apps from   Download.com- http://tinyurl.com/brfcphs

Malcolm McNeill
www.BestCarHire.com

Follow us on Twitter, FaceBook and Google+

About the author
Malcolm McNeill is a well established IT consultant based in Glasgow, Scotland. His brainchild website www.BestCarHire.com was only launched in late 2012 but can now boast of many satisfied customers worldwide