One of the feel-good milestones of travel is achieving elite status within a loyalty program. What feels even better? Getting elite status for free thanks to holding the right credit card, through your existing elite status, or by status matching from another program. Here’s are all the shortcuts to rental car elite status that we can find.

Hertz Gold Plus Rewards expire if you have no earning or redeeming activity on your account for a period of 18 months. However, Hertz isn’t as generous with what qualifies as earning or redeeming activity. Here’s what you need to know to save your Hertz Gold Plus Rewards points.

Hertz is reducing the requirements for earning Five Star and Presidential Circle elite status in 2021 (but only barely). Plus, you don’t have to worry about your Hertz points expiring soon, as Hertz is extending the expiration of points through the end of 2021. Here’s what Hertz Gold Plus members need to know about these changes.

Hertz is letting Gold Plus Five Star and President’s Circle elite members share their elite status with a friend or family member for free. Here’s how to share your status, some benefits of Hertz Gold Plus elite status, and some ways you might be eligible for Hertz Gold Plus elite status without knowing it.

You can purchase enough Hertz points for a one-week standard rental, a one-week Prestige Collection rental, or a weekend Prestige Collection rental, with this year’s Daily Getaways promotion. The promotion starts on May 29, 2019 at 1 p.m. ET. We expect this deal will sell out within minutes.

Hertz has made a significant devaluation to their award chart for standard rental awards with no advance notice. The points required have increased for most types of redemptions. Since there was no announcement or press release, we’ve created a before-and-after chart to illustrate the changes.

SAS has announced a crazy promotion with Hertz and it’s huge — almost making it worth doing the car rental equivalent of a mattress or mileage run.