Allen’s Taxi

Yesterday I was offered an internship which required I take a drug test within 48 hours. Due to college classes, I had a limited window of time to get to the testing facility before it closed (about an hour and a half) Because this was a time sensitive matter, I scheduled 4 hours ahead thinking that would guarantee my taxi would arrive on time. Wrong.
After 15 minutes of waiting I called to see when my taxi was arriving. The person who answered was different from the person I spoke to in the morning. She was unintelligible on the phone, and when I asked her to repeat what she said, she hung up on me.
After 45 minutes of waiting, a cab from Hudson Valley Taxi just happened to be dropping off a student so I hopped in with that driver. Thankfully, I made it to the facility before it closed and was able to complete my drug test (no thanks to Allen’s Taxi!).
My missing taxi driver tried to call me about an hour after I had originally scheduled to be picked up, probably to ask where I was. I didn’t pick up. Absolutely ridiculous.
It is absolutely ridiculous that taxi drivers in Poughkeepsie have this preconceived notion that students at my college will take the very first taxi that comes by, regardless of whether they called for that specific company. People hop in the first taxi they see only when the cab they called for is late, because just about every taxi company around here has absolutely no sense of punctuality.

Owner or whoever shouted at me over the phone. Unprofessional, and verbally abusive. Do not recommend at all.