Article: RENTAL CAR COMPANIES PUSH SALES WITH BETTER PACKAGING.(Living Today)

Byline: Barbara Shea Newsday

Little on the vacation front has brought more to cheer about lately than car rentals.

Tour packages throw in free wheels for up to a week at numerous destinations, and competing rental companies keep one-upping each other with freebies, upgrades and other perks galore: Hertz has just started offering unlimited free mileage everywhere, Budget is passing out coupons in Southern California that it says are worth up to $900 and Alamo recently launched a "frequent renter" program.

Best of all for budget-minded travelers, though, has been the decline of the notorious collision damage waiver, an add-on that routinely ...

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