Rep. Gilliard speaks with airport officials about rental car scams

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – In March, News 2 noted that Agent Wendell Gilliard was billed much more than $20,000 for damages to a rental car at Charleston Worldwide Airport. Thursday afternoon, the agent spoke to the airport’s board associates about his knowledge.

Gilliard is enthusiastic to make a big difference soon after encountering a rental motor vehicle fraud in January.

“If I have to use my placement for anything at all on this Earth,” Gilliard claimed. “This would be a problem wherever I would have to use it for the men and women. To make adjustments.”

Gilliard was charged for damages by Spending plan/Avis immediately after he returned a rental motor vehicle he claims was in “mint situation.”

“It was about a 7 days and a 50 percent,” he mentioned. “Two weeks later on, my accountant named me, due to the fact which is where all my invoices go. She stated, ‘Look, we acquired an bill listed here from Funds/Avis, for $2100.”

He states fifteen minutes afterwards, his accountant termed yet again, expressing she had misread the invoice.

“She phone calls me back again,” he explained. “And mentioned, ‘Are you sitting down down agent?’ I reported, ‘What the heck is incorrect now?’ She said, ‘We created a miscalculation. It is not $2100, it’s $26,000.”

Gilliard claims soon after hunting far more into the scam, he discovered he wasn’t the only one.

“I also experienced persons who had been victims that termed me that had very similar conditions,” he explained.

The agent a short while ago drafted a residence bill meant to shield persons from automobile rental frauds relocating forward.

“It necessitates that when you get to your motor vehicle,” Gilliard said. “That there will be a sign-off with a online video. The signal-off will have to be between the consumer and the agent. And that buyer will be offered a digital video of the auto.”

Gilliard states he hopes his proposed bill passes as swiftly as attainable.