Car rental firms will bear the cost of the Salik road toll, according to the Dubai Car Rental Group, which represents 85% of the sector in the UAE.Gulf News reports that companies will be able to monitor the number of times customers pass through toll gates from the Salik web site. The newspaper spoke to a number of rental companies.
Rajesh Arora, manager at Thrifty Car Rental said the firm would buy Salik tags for short term customers, although companies leasing cars would have the choice to purchase them or not.“If we do provide the tags then customers will be charged an administrative fee, which would be a marginal one to cover the administrative costs” he said.A manager from a second firm said “how are we expected to give our customers all the road tags? We have to contact customers and inform them that we have to put the tags on their car. It is a logistics nightmare. I am praying that Salik will go away because we cannot absorb the costs.”Sunil Kumar from Hertz said customers would receive text messages to tell them they would be provided with tags. “About Dh65,000 has been spent on purchasing the Salik tags” he said. Kumar said short-term vehicles would be charged for the number of times they pass through gates, however long-term lease vehicles would be charged an extra 10%, amounting to Dh4.40 for each entry. Source
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