Indeed, NASCAR has spent the last five years spinning its wheels to mandate competitiveness by way of its Chase for the Cup playoff format, stricter rules for modifying race cars, and denying team owners formal acknowledgment as franchisees of stock car racing.
Some tracking technologies simply relay a car's coordinates back to a rental franchisee, though more sophisticated versions can keep tabs on any damage to the vehicle and even disengage the engine by remote control if the car is stolen or driven out of the country.
Glenn van Heerden, deputy chairman of Avis South Africa, the regional franchisee for Avis Rent a Car System, and deputy chairman of the country's Tourism Business Council, looks back on the days after the election and wonders where the country might have been today if tourism had had the attention then that it has now.
Ms. Johnson says the San Francisco franchisee has had geographic restrictions on its cars "for a number of years," and that it added tracking devices gradually to its fleet in 2003.
In 2002, a Budget Rent A Car franchisee in Tucson was sued by at least four customers after they were billed $1 a mile for crossing specified state lines, with the extra fees for two of them totaling more than $7,000.
Although the car rental industry has no written code of ethics, there is a general understanding that some hard-sell tactics are unacceptable, according to Marianne Sullivan, president of the Association of Car and Truck Rental Independents and Franchisees.
RTM is the biggest Arby's franchisee.
He doesn't blame the franchisee, he blames McDonald's.
He is in negotiations with a potential franchisee in Guangdong, China.
The cost and risk are split with the franchisee.
