Hey Kids! Let's learn math today! I'm your friend, Freddy!
Let's say Freddy want to rent a 16' truck to help his friends move an an art piece from Cambridge to Waltham for a Biiiiig Party! I like parties! He ends up driving a total of 60 miles with his rented truck, that's as many as 6 ten's! Ryder charges him $80 a day for the truck, plus $.50 per mile! Can you do the math with me real quick?
He has the truck two days, so that's $80 times two, which is the same as eight times two times 10. That's $160! 60 times .50 is the same as 60 divided by two, which is $30! He also has to pay for insurance which is another $60! That's a grand total of 160 plus 30 plus 60, which is $250!
While Freddy is out driving his truck, he makes super-sure to put gas in it! He even saves his recipts! A Ryder rental truck gets about 10 miles to the gallon of fuel, and fuel costs about $3 if you buy it from a regular gas station! What's that math mean? Freddy used 60/10 gallons of fuel, which is the same as (6*10 )/(1*10), and that cancels out to 6 gallons of fuel! He makes sure to put 6 gallons of fuel in the truck, but Ryder makes super sure to put another 17 gallons of fuel in it after he returns the truck and charge him $6 a gallon for it! 17 times 6 is a little hard to think of, but I'll help you. It's the same as 7 times 6 plus 10 times six, which is a total of $102! Ryder has now charged him $350 on a rental that they quoted at $200! Even better, is that they decided to throw in $100 of additional fees for no reason! Now it costs $450, which, divided by the $200 he was quoted is over 2! Isn't math fun?!
The people at Ryder were really nice to Freddy, and he'd love to give them Five Stars for Excellent Service! Unfortunately, they weren't there half the time when he went to talk to them, so he can only give them 5/2 stars, which is 2.5. Also, they took $100 from him in extra fuel costs filling up an already full truck, so we have to factor that in too!
2.5 / 100 = This place is dishonest and you're better off stealing a truck than trying to rent one from them. read more