Car rental in Trondheim runs on the standard Norwegian two-desk pattern: the deep fleet sits at Vaernes Airport (TRD), about half an hour east of the city at Stjordal, where Avis, Hertz, Budget, Sixt, Enterprise and Europcar all operate - Avis runs long daily hours with 24-hour drop-off - while city alternatives include Enterprise on Kjopmannsgata in the centre and a Sixt location with round-the-clock return. Norway's third city rewards the wheels beyond its own cobbles: the Trondheimsfjord's shoreline roads, the Golden Road's farm-food loop across the fjord, and Roros - the UNESCO-listed copper-mining town - about two and a half hours southeast make the classic runs. Winter matters here: fleets come winter-shod in season, but check conditions before mountain crossings and size your margins to Norwegian daylight, not the map.
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