My 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

My 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.