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Depends where. In the USA (and perhaps Canada) this has long been a concern -- dating at least back to Kerouac's time -- and a hitchhiker there relies e.g. on d
by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Depends where. In the USA (and perhaps Canada) this has long been a concern -- dating at least back to Kerouac's time -- and a hitchhiker there relies e.g. on drivers who are owner-operators. In the rest of the world, including the EU, hitchhikers still easily move via trucks.
- orwin 3y agoRiding as passenger in a French long haul truck should be almost impossible. Although most trucks accross France aren't immatriculated in France, so it might still be possible.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoMy direct experience is a few years old now, because I moved on to slightly more bourgeois means of travel (but I remain active in travel communities where the younger, less bourgeois members hitchhike), but I don't remember seeing many French trucks whenever I was jumping from one motorway service station to another. The trucking industry in Europe very quickly moved eastward, and already Polish drivers were the stereotypical long-distance lift across Western Europe, with Hungarians and (after 2006) Romanians also being common.