How to Avoid ‘Gotcha’ Toll Fees From Your Rental-Car Company
Whether you’re heading down to Florida for spring break or out to Denver to go skiing, you need to know about one of the worst kinds of tourist traps you could fall into.
In Orlando, it’s called State Road 528, also known as the Martin Andersen Beachline Expressway. In Miami, it’s Florida State Road 112, also called the Airport Expressway. In Denver, it’s E-470, which connects the city with its international airport.
Not only are these toll roads opportunistically built next to airports, they’re almost entirely cashless, meaning there’s no booth where you can pay your toll.
Trump Threatens to Undo NAFTA’s Auto Alley
In his first week in office, President Trump made good on his campaign promise to overhaul U.S. trade policy.
On Jan. 23 he signed a memorandum to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and made clear his desire to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.
The next day Trump summoned executives from the Big Three U.S. automakers, Ford, Fiat Chrysler, and General Motors, to the White House. He set the tone with a tweet saying he wants “new plants to be built here for cars sold here.”
Selling for Performance
Selling is a lot like driving. It’s easy to get distracted with activity that takes you off road
By Susan A. Lund, President of MR3
I remember driving with a friend of mine who had just completed advanced drivers training. When I got in the car with her, she was a much better driver than before. As I reflected on my driving, I recognized I had room for improvement and decided I needed a driving course.
The good news is that after taking two driving courses, I learned how to drive for performance! How about you? Are you driving and selling for performance or distracted with activity that takes you off road?
Latest Vehicle Rankings Puts a Surprise at Top of List
While new car and truck sales are expected to slow a bit this month, the buyers that are out there are looking for a vehicle with a variety of things, but if safety and reliability are the key metrics, then the 2017 Buick Encore and Verano, Hyundai Sonata and Tesla Model S should be at the top of the list.
That’s according to The Car Book 2017, put out by Jack Gillis and the Center for Auto Safety. The 37th edition rated those three a perfect “10” on a scale of one to 10 for reliability and safety.
“Our goal is simple,” said Michael Brooks, Acting Executive Director, Center for Auto Safety, “to empower consumers by providing critical information about the most complex purchase they make.”
Job Hunting After a Certain Age? Erase Your Past
The new administration has put some wind in the sails of the market and, some would say, the economy too—which is potentially good news for job seekers.
But if you’re one of those seekers and you’re of a certain age, career guru Marc Cenedella has some critical advice: “Don’t list any dates on your résumé before the year 2000
Just zap it. Erase it. Pretend those years never happened.
Cenedella, founder and executive chairman of Ladders, a professional career site aimed at job seekers in the top 25% of the market, riled up some of his 9 million newsletter subscribers when he offered this guidance in December. “I definitely got some blowback,” he says
