Personally, I don't drive; it freaks me the hell out. However, I've got a housemate who does drive, and he has several thousand dollars worth of ham radio equip

Personally, I don't drive; it freaks me the hell out. However, I've got a housemate who does drive, and he has several thousand dollars worth of ham radio equipment installed in his car. I also have friends who do volunteer fire work and other first response type duties. Doing things like that in a rental would be near impossible.