Dear All,
My name is Garry Boswell. I am the Managing Director of U.S. Rent A Car.co.uk. The company at the centre of this thread. A customer of ours has very kindly contacted me with regards to this thread so that I can put some minds at ease and stop all this misinformation.
U.S. Rent A Car.co.uk has no business connection with FloridaCarHire.com, who experienced problems in the summer before being bought by Holiday Cars Ltd, or USA Rent A Car, who were part of Hire4Lower who went bust. None of the directors who were associated with any of the companies mentioned here have anything to do with U.S. Rent A Car Ltd and never will. We are also not attached to and have no connection with Holiday Cars Ltd.
My son, Gavin Boswell, did work for FloridaCarHire.com, he also worked for Holiday Autos, and has been in Car Hire for most of his working life, at FloridaCarHire.com he was a manager in their call centre and was in charge of training and motivating the call centre staff and was defiantly not a Director as suggested. He had no responsibility for accounting issues or contract negotiating. He was also the first person to be made redundant from FloridaCarHire.com. I am sure this can be validated through Global Leisure Cars t/a FloridaCarHire.com's liquidators.
I myself am a retired police officer who worked for Hampshire constabulary for 15 years. Previously I was in the army for 22 years.
U.S. Rent A Car.co.uk has been trading for a year, we became a Limited company in Aug 2003. This can all be validated by looking on companies house.co.uk. You can also find information about the directors, unfortunately you would have to part with some hard earned cash.
We have won awards for web excellence and we are also the first car hire company to be excepted by SafeBuy, who are an independent body who monitors web trade and are currently in the final stages of taking over from which?. We are also members of the FLAUSA association and the visit usa association. As with all car hire brokers we are unable to join ABTA or ATOL., but we would whole heartedly support a governing body for car hire.
I totally understand the paranoia that consumers have at the moment regarding car hire brokers but we are an honest company, who pride ourselves on our excellent level of service, which was commented on, it is shame that people are now suspicious of good service!
It appears we have been tarnished with a very ugly brush.
Martina857 accusation that we are involved in a criminal activity as you have mentioned on previous threads is a libellous action. I look forward to you showing everyone the proof that you have! I suggest you post an apology as soon as possible. If this continues I will seek legal advice.
I am more than happy to answer any questions that anyone has. All I ask is that this type of thread is stopped. My team and I have worked very hard and sacrificed a lot to get to this position. I note that this has already lost our company one booking, who knows how many more have been put off by these inaccuracies. If you know of any other threads of a similar nature please can you point them to this information or alternatively forward me the threads and I will post replies.
For your own piece of mind please do some investigating of your own, our Company number is 4877174 our vat number is 831 8261 35.
Please except my apologies if I have appeared rude in anyway, it was not my intention I am very passionate about this company and seeing our good name trashed like this upsets me.
You can email myself at
garryb@usrentacar.co.uk or alternatively you can call us on 08715 200 135. Both myself and my son will make ourselves as available as possible.
Kind regards,
Garry Boswell,
Managing Director,
U.S. Rent A Car.co.uk.
