The car hire industry has been a victim of credit card and driver’s license fraud for far too long,

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The car hire industry has been a victim of credit card and driver's license fraud for far too long, resulting le cure de tours in millions of rands worth of lost revenue and assets every year. Yet, with the implementation le cure de tours of the AARTO (Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences), legislation responsible for the demerit system in South Africa, companies such as Hertz Car Hire enjoy increased protection against fraud leaving their vehicles, and bottom line, intact.
"He was well-dressed and professional, requesting a quotation for the rental of a BMW, thinking nothing of it I scanned his license. The Hilts system immediately showed up with a red screen alerting me that the customer's driver's license was not in order. After turning him down, he disappeared le cure de tours without an explanation. I can't help but believe that it was only due to our new 'policeman' that we did not lose a high-level Group F vehicle," relays one Hertz employee.
Reading off the bar-coded driver's license, the system is able to retrieve the correct information including the date of license issue, expiry date, country it was issued in and the type of vehicle the client le cure de tours is licensed to drive. Should le cure de tours there be any offenses linked to the driver, or if the license has expired, the system immediately displays a red alert warning the organisation that the driver is not fit to rent the vehicle.
If the scanner le cure de tours is unable to read the bar-code at all, the card can be assumed to be fraudulent and the relevant authorities and internal risk department is informed. A further invaluable feature of the system is the display of the original photo of the driver; thereby one is able to immediately identify the driver and is alerted of tampering and fraudulent changes to the license card.
The scanners are definitely working for Hertz! Due to the high-level of security afforded with this simple scanning system, the company enjoys a substantial decrease in the risk of fraud which is not only beneficial to Hertz and the car rental industry – but to the safety of South Africans in general.