Jun 14, 2013 05:09 PM
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Today I decided NOT TO BOOK Radio Taxi Travel Time any more as it was the 5th time it DITCHED ME today.
Yesterday (13 Jun 2013) around 4 pm I booked for a taxi from my residence at Magarpatta City Pune to Airport Pune for 8.45 am today. Got sms from Travel Time at 4.03 pm showing booking id B000075 for dt 14 Jun 2013, 8.30 am.
Today got sms at 8.07 am - " cab MH14 CX 0978, chauffeur Niteen Devkate will reach you as scheduled".
Since the taxi didn't turn up till 9 am, I called Nitin to know where he has reached. To my surprise he was probably the owner of the taxi and he gave me the name of the driver as Gaikwad with cell no.9921917273 and told me to call him. To be sure that the cell number is correct I repeated the number and he confirmed as correct. When I called that number it was "not reachable".
Having had such experience ON FOUR OCCASIONS of TRAVEL TIME TAXI REACHING UNDULY LATE OR NOT TURNING UP AT ALL, I took my own car at 9.15 am to drop my children at the Pune airport.On my return home I learned that NO TAXI REPORTED NOR WAS THERE ANY CALL FROM THE CHAUFFEUR OR TRAVEL TIME.
On one occasion sometime last month my cousin had booked for travel time taxi from Wakdewadi to Pune Rly Station and the taxi didn't turn up.Once I would have missed a flight had I not got an auto to go to the airport when I called the Travel Time taxi driver half an hour after scheduled time to know when he would arrive and he told me that he was stuck up in a traffic jam about 5 km away and might take 15 min to half hour to reach. He was obviously lying and must have picked up some other passenger on his own after responding to travel time that he would report to me.
On two other occasions the taxi turned up more than half hour late.
So my advice would be - never book travel time if you want to avoid getting stranded.
