TURO - peer to peer car rental

TURO is a platform to provide peer to peer car rental service. It is a car rental platform similar to Airbnb for house rentals. The cars are listed by local folks through the platform and can be either brought to the local airport (sometimes for a fee) or picked up at a local address in the city.

Below is the gist of the process. You can look up here for more details:

• You look up the car's available on TURO based on your date, location and budget.
• Select if you want the the car to be delivered to you or if you can pick it up.
• The owner confirms your reservation within 8 hours.
• Pick up at designated duration of time.
• Return it back to the same location with gas being filled up.

Below is the snapshot of the search on TURO.

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TURO Car Rental Search for PDX

Since TURO is peer to peer car rental, it is recommended to purchase the insurance directly from TURO (Liberty Mutual is the underwriter) as damages will not be covered by the credit cards which usually provides CDW (Collision Damage Waiver) coverage. Alternatively if you rent from commercial hosts they would provide their own insurance and the additional payment for that would be directly assessed by the hosts. You can decline the insurance coverage but if you chose to take it there are 3 different kind of insurance coverage provided by TURO as shown below. The protection price calculation is shown in the article here.

Different protection plan provided by TURO

The total rental cost presented by TURO consists of car rental charge along with various fees. The breakdown of the major total cost consists of below:

• Trip Price - Per day car rental charge.
• Trip fee - A variable component based on the host and car with maximum of 25% of the Trip price.
• Protection Fee - Depending on the protection plan chosen this fee can be as high as 60% of trip price . You can decline to take the protection if you wish.
• Delivery Fee - Variable amount charge by host if they provide delivery of the vehicle.

There might be other fees assessed such as young driver fee, cleaning fee or taxes/fees assessed by certain locations. All the fees details can be found here.

TURO is available in the United States, Canada, Germany and U.K. at this time. The car's available through TURO vary but you can get a pretty good deal at a lower price than what the Car Rental companies would charge otherwise. So, next time you are looking for Car Rental do remember to check out TURO.

Referral - At this time TURO does offer a referral program where you get $25 in credit for referring someone to TURO. Here is our referral link (Thanks if you decide to use it).

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