NHTSA to investigate Hertz for allegedly renting recalled cars
"NHTSA is opening this audit query to investigate whether The Hertz Corporation has complied with the requirements of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act . The Safety Act requires, among other things, that a rental company shall not rent a vehicle subject to a safety recall unless the recall remedy has been performed. 49 U.S.C. § 30120," the statement said.
"NHTSA is in receipt of information that indicates Hertz rented vehicles to customers without having performed required recall. Accordingly, we are opening this audit query to seek additional information concerning this issue," it concluded. Renting vehicles with open recalls was made illegal by what started as the FAST Act, which was passed by Congress and signed by then-president Obama in December 2015. It went into effect the following year.
Hertz has also recently been under fire for having customers arrested for allegedly stealing cars that they had already returned. The company agreed in a settlement to more than 350 people it had falsely accused of theft through what the company claimed was merely an inventory"glitch."
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