I have two hypotheses.<p>The tow company and the local Avis branch have some weird kickback scheme going on.<p>Or the tow company has illegally put trackers on known rental cars and then fetch them for a bounty.<p>Someone is clearly able to track the car, and I wouldn’t put it past a tow truck company to pull something sleezy like this in either situation. Don’t know how likely either situation is, but those are my top two guesses.
<a href="https://viewfromthewing.com/hertz-glitch-is-falsely-reporting-cars-stolen-landing-renters-in-jail/" rel="nofollow">https://viewfromthewing.com/hertz-glitch-is-falsely-reportin...</a><p>„Hertz Is Falsely Reporting Cars Stolen, Landing Renters in Jail”<p>That must be something similar
Budget/Avis are at best shit customer service and more likely regularly dishonest. Few businesses are on my permanent shit-list, but they're one.
>only option short of taking legal action<p>USA is weird. Where is consumer protection agency? Why not small claims court? Why waste hours on the phone apologizing for own existence?