NHTSA has opened an investigation into rental big Hertz for allegedly renting autos with open remembers to prospects in violation of a federal legislation which makes it unlawful for rental chains with fleets of 35 autos or extra to lease out a automotive with an open recall.
The company’s Workplace of Defect Investigations posted a discover Tuesday saying it has acquired data that will point out that Hertz rented Ford and Nissan autos with open remembers to prospects.
“NHTSA is opening this audit question to analyze whether or not The Hertz Company (Hertz) has complied with the necessities of the Nationwide Visitors and Motor Car Security Act (Security Act). The Security Act requires, amongst different issues, {that a} rental firm shall not lease a car topic to a security recall until the recall treatment has been carried out. 49 U.S.C. § 30120(i),” the assertion stated.
“NHTSA is in receipt of knowledge that signifies Hertz rented autos to prospects with out having carried out required recall repairs. Accordingly, we’re opening this audit question to hunt extra data regarding this challenge,” it concluded.
Renting autos with open remembers was made unlawful by what began because the FAST (Fixing America’s Floor Transportation) Act, which was handed by Congress and signed by then-president Obama in December 2015. It went into impact the next yr.
Hertz has additionally just lately been below fireplace for having prospects arrested for allegedly stealing automobiles that they’d already returned. The corporate agreed to pay out $168 million in a settlement to greater than 350 folks it had falsely accused of theft by what the corporate claimed was merely a list “glitch.”
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