Running a rental fleet in Kota Kinabalu
Kota Kinabalu fleets carry more four-wheel drives and pickups than the peninsula does. They rent for more per day, and trips inland mean cars come back late fairly often.
Paperwork that expires
Your phone reminds you a week before each one expires, and the Today screen lists anything expiring in the next 30 days.
| What it is called here | Record it in DriveFlow as |
|---|---|
| Cukai jalan (road tax) | Road tax |
| Insurans | Insurance |
Cars operators here run
Perodua Aruz, Toyota Hilux, Mitsubishi Triton, Perodua Alza. These are in the model list.
What tends to go wrong here
- A pickup and a hatchback are hard to compare by feel
- A pickup that is out half the time at a high rate and a hatchback out nearly every day at a low one earn in different ways. Money shows what each kept and how busy each was, side by side. Give every car its own half-day, daily, weekly and monthly rate, and the longer ones are used automatically on long trips.
- Late returns
- An hour after the return time passes, your phone tells you which car has not come back and who has it, so the first conversation is a phone call, not a surprise.
Ways of renting that fit here
- Airport and hotel pickups: For visitors who arrive by air and want the car waiting.
- Your first few cars: A small fleet of pickups and SUVs, still run from a notebook.
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