[Blindtlk] FW: [nabs-l] Enterprise Car Rental

[Chris Nusbaum]

Hi Marion,

This is Chris.  Thanks for the information! David isn't on the 
Blind Talk list, so I'm forwarding him the responses he gets from 
this list.

 Chris Nusbaum

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and 
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical 
nuisance." -- Kenneth Jernigan (President of the National 
Federation of the Blind, 1968-1986.)

  Visit the I C.A.N.  Foundation online at: 
www.icanfoundation.info for
information on our foundation and how it helps blind and visually
impaired children in MD say "I can!"


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 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Marion Gwizdala" <blind411 at verizon.net
To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:30:03 -0400
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] FW: [nabs-l] Enterprise Car Rental

David,
    If you go to the DOJ website at

http://www.ada.gov

And search on Dollar Car Rental, you will find a decision by the 
Department.
Basically, it states that depriving a blind person the right to 
rent a
vehicle is in violation of Title III of the Americans with 
Disabilities Act.
Companies that rent vehicles must modify their policies, 
practices, and
procedures to allow individuals who cannot drive due to their 
disability the
right to rent a vehicle and waive the additional driver fee.  If 
you have any
problems finding that decision, please write to me off-list at

President at NAGDU.ORG

Fraternally yours,
Marion Gwizdala, President
National Association of Guide Dog Users (NAGDU)
National Federation of the Blind
813-626-2789
President at NAGDU.ORG
HTTP://WWW.NAGDU.ORG


----- Original Message -----
From: "Humberto Avila" <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com
To: <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:34 PM
Subject: [Blindtlk] FW: [nabs-l] Enterprise Car Rental




 -----Original Message-----
 From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
 Behalf
 Of David Dodge
 Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 5:43 PM
 To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
 Subject: [nabs-l] Enterprise Car Rental

 Hello Everyone,
 Service learning is a huge component of what I do in public 
higher
 education
 and it will be part of what I want to do as an ultimate career 
goal.  I
 cannot drive so when we go on service learning trips I have 
someone else
 drive the car and I pay for the rental.  This isn't always the 
scenario but
 this is the scenario I have a question about.

 The renter at enterprise said that it could not be a different 
person
 paying
 for the car than driving it.  She also stated in order to do 
this in the
 future we should have government paperwork stating as such.  
This seems
 ridiculously unfair to me and that they should have some kind of 
system
 for
 this.  I cannot be the only blind person that ever had another 
person drive
 a
 car and payed for it? Thoughts, suggestions, opinions, welcome.  
Thanks.  :)

 David
 ----------------------------------
 David Dodge
 Doctoral Degree Granting Institutions Rep.
 State University of New York Student Assembly
 English Major
 University at Buffalo
 306 Clemens Hall
 Buffalo, NY 14260
 daviddod at buffalo.edu
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