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• Deenesh says:

  13 Jun13 June 08:04

  Can’t say it came out of the blue. There has been frantic discussion on this topic for months on many of the travel blogs/web boards I visit.

• Brian Peers says:

  13 Jun13 June 08:52

  I can’t help but feel this is a problem generated by the media.
  In 10 years of renting cars overseas, over 50 rentals, not once have I been asked for my counterpart..
  The two times I have been asked has been renting a van in Reading.

  So whats the outcome, thousands of people travelling overseas requesting a code when they don’t need one, taking the bandwidth away from those distressed souls trying to rent vans in Reading…

• Brian Peers says:

  13 Jun13 June 08:52

  Out of interest has anyone ever been asked for their counterpart travelling overseas?

  • Deenesh says:

    13 Jun13 June 09:01

    I’ve always just handed mine over but know many people who have never been asked. You are right, this “problem” has been blown up by the media.

• Roger says:

  13 Jun13 June 09:32

  So what happens to drivers from Germany, Switzerland, France, … (add European country) … , California … (add 49 states) … . etc? Do/did they also have absurd counterpart sheets? Of course not.

  GB has EU-format licences which are recognised internationally. US states have no common format AFAIK, yet they are recognised internationlly.

  +1 to the suggestion that this is one got up by the media. Must be slow news days.

  +1 to the suggestions that the counterparts or codes are not required in practice.

• Tim_t says:

  13 Jun13 June 11:04

  I had received an email from hertz gold reward warning me of the changes.

• panka says:

  15 Jun15 June 14:21

  what are these comments for at this article?

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