When you travel out of town there are several ways to secure transportation. Many people just deal with public transit systems that, while they can be delayed, they aren’t generally too bad if you allow yourself enough time. However, for people who go out of town on a business trip or because of some sort of family emergency, public transportation is not a feasible option and cabs can become too expensive if you’re staying for more than a couple of days. Unfortunately, the price comparison with a cab company and a car rental can be very close.
Thankfully though, many car rental agencies offer promotions to use their company over the rest. Quite often they will give discounts to return customers and have been known to run promotions through the internet and other forms of media to increase the volume of business that they do in a particular month. With the help of these advertisements you can often times get a sizable discount by using a code (generally listed in the advertisement) and entering it when you make your reservations.
Another way to reduce the costs of renting a car is to call each individual location of a particular rental company and find the best price. This allows you to do two things: Figure out which location is more desperate for business and therefore more willing to work with you on price and also gives you a bargaining chip should you choose to haggle with another location or a different company entirely. By going to the cheapest location and using a discount code (if you can, use more than one) you should be able to knock off up to 50% of the price of the costs of the car.

