Rental Car Agencies

[MVTArider]

If anyone has information on bus models, years, unit numbers and ranges, engines, transmissions, etc. for Hertz, Avis, National/Alamo, Enterprise, or other car rental companies that operate buses for shuttle service, please share!

Here is what I have collected for Hertz from various photos online: http://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Hertz_Corporation

[RailBus63]

You can't really go by the fleet numbers - those are often specific to the local operation, and agencies will often renumber buses when transferring from one city to another.

[A. Wong]

There was an ex-Hertz Gillig Phantom that showed up at a Cummins shop here not too long ago. It's super rare to see a Gillig north of the 49th parallel.

[Big CJ]

I found a multitude of information pertaining to the Gillig Phantoms and H2000LF for Hertz. The first link mentions lift equipted buses, meaning Gillig Phantoms, which were first put in service in late 1994 for Washington Dulles International Airport.

Then the first four months of 1995, more Phantoms would go into service in cities like Ft. Lauderdale and Orlando in Florida, plus Kansas City, Missouri. That would explain the new shuttle buses I saw, when I first moved down to Orlando in 1995. The third link mentions that the H2000LF were put in service in 1997, not in 1996.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/HERTZ+INTRODUCES+LIFT-EQUIPPED+AIRPORT+SHUTTLE+BUSES+FOR+HANDICAPPED%3B...-a015905480

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hertz-introduces-the-h2000lf----the-bus-of-the-future-75633897.html?$G1Ref

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hertz-introduces-a-third-airport-shuttle-vehicle-for-the-physically-challenged-76375957.html

[Big CJ]

I think this bus from the movie Ernest Saves Christmas is an Alamo Gillig Phantom, with a center door.

Since the movie was filmed in Orlando, that seems to verify that. Sadly this is the only time the bus is seen.