Avis's Kevin Bradshaw answers Barker's Dozen

Date: 11 August 2008

BusinessCar's deputy editor Paul Barker puts 13 testing questions to Avis MD Kevin Bradshaw

1. What was your first job? Washing down machinery in a frozen chip factory

2. What was your first company car? VW Golf VR6

3. What did you listen to on your last car journey? Orson - Bright Idea

4. What one thing do you wish you could do better? Ski powder

5. What's your biggest achievement? Retaining my sanity with four children

6. Who are your role models? Tom Glocer, CEO Thomson Reuters

7. What's the stupidest thing you've done? Hitchhiked on a petrol tanker through a war zone

8. What was the most hotly debated topic at your last meeting? How we should up the ante on innovation

9. What's in your garage? A John Deere tractor

10. What's the worst thing about your job? The coffee machine on the 3rd floor

11. What one law would you make or change? Ban caravans on the A303

12. What keeps you awake at night? Our new baby Isabella

13. Who is your ideal celebrity date? Charlize Theron