Rep. Gilliard speaks with airport officials about rental car scams

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – In March, Information 2 reported that Representative Wendell Gilliard was charged much more than $20,000 for damages to a rental car or truck at Charleston Intercontinental Airport. Thursday afternoon, the representative spoke to the airport’s board members about his working experience.

Gilliard is motivated to make a distinction after encountering a rental auto scam in January.

“If I have to use my posture for anything at all on this Earth,” Gilliard reported. “This would be a circumstance where by I would have to use it for the folks. To make alterations.”

Gilliard was billed for damages by Spending plan/Avis right after he returned a rental motor vehicle he states was in “mint ailment.”

“It was about a week and a 50 percent,” he stated. “Two weeks afterwards, my accountant known as me, mainly because which is where all my invoices go. She explained, ‘Look, we got an bill here from Funds/Avis, for $2100.”

He suggests fifteen minutes afterwards, his accountant known as again, stating she had misread the bill.

“She phone calls me back,” he stated. “And said, ‘Are you sitting down consultant?’ I stated, ‘What the heck is wrong now?’ She reported, ‘We created a oversight. It’s not $2100, it is $26,000.”

Gilliard states just after on the lookout more into the rip-off, he uncovered he wasn’t the only a person.

“I also experienced folks who were victims that named me that had related circumstances,” he said.

The agent recently drafted a house invoice meant to protect people from car rental frauds shifting forward.

“It requires that when you get to your auto,” Gilliard stated. “That there will be a indication-off with a movie. The indication-off will have to be amongst the client and the consultant. And that client will be specified a electronic video clip of the automobile.”

Gilliard claims he hopes his proposed bill passes as speedily as attainable.