....have given someone a lift with trade plates before (only because i thought wearing them round his neck was quite funny!! )

BUT

would you give a lift to someone just 'thumbing a lift' these days???? i personally wouldn't as you have no idea what 'psycho's' are out there these days!!!

went past a few the other day on the slip road to the M1 and thought how succesful it was these days!!!!

(if it happens to be VERY succesful....i will sell the motors and thumb my way to work each day!! )

 

keith, ive allways thought about this myself

Thers a chap near us who for as long as i can remember has allways thumbed lifts between Matlock and Derby along the A6.

He's a bit trampy looking so ive never bothered stopping but i must admitt the thought had crossed my mind at one point

 

a few years ago there was pikey looking guy on a duel carrageway so i pulled into the layby and waited for him to jog up to the car

and when he got within about 6 foot of the car i launched it off up the road, he didnt look amused but i must admit i nearly pissed myself laughing

and no i havnt ever picked anyone up, and wouldnt either.

unless i was paid upfront lol

 

Dear god, we used to do that all the time!!

few of us in the car, we'd pull up to a hitcher, ask where he's going, soon as he speaks, we fuckin burn off, its the funniest thing ever look back and hes standing there giving us all sortsof abuse, too funny

Very immature though

 

but oh sooooo funny

 

Innit

 

Nope, never have and never would.

 

I gave a lift to 3 female, belgian strawberry pickers last year.

It was fookin roasting and they had next to nothing on and were all sweaty

unchballs:

Was only ten miles down the road i would of taken em to the moon if they'd asked.

 

You have to make exceptions sometimes........

 

Is this a thread to ask for a passenger ride tomorrow Kieth?

Sorry but neon queen hitchhikers are NOT my scene sorry!



Smit

 

Foook me how out of the blue is that one you lucky swine

Couldnt of asked for better could you

 

Stopped for a trade-plate hiker before now, picked him up at J17 of the M62 and dropped him off at Derwent Mercedes in Huddersfield (on my direct route home) he was very chuffed

 

about 6 years ago i used to pick up the ones with the trade plates all the time i had to drive from exeter to penznce every day got board on my own

 

you ever seen the film the hitchhiker after seeing that i would'nt even Entertain the idea

 

So these guys hitching a lift with the trade plates. Is their job to deliver cars & then have to get back under their own steam?

Always wondered as I pass them LOL

 

basically, they get a mileage allowance, so the chepaer that they can travel the more money they make. i know a pensioner that does it, but he uses his pensioners railcard for cheap fares and makes a decent wage out of it.

 

yip in the summer im gonna drive up and down that road 10 times a day !

to be honest i would of only slippeed it into one of em

 

it depends if hes like this



or this





ANSWERS STILL NO

 

Only done it once to some completely shit faced bloke 'cos it was about -5 and he only had a shirt on lol

My mate used to hitch hike to school from braintree to chelmsford whenever he missed the bus!

 

have given a few people a lift,only respectable ones though.

 

I usually return the favour and stick my thumb up at them as i drive past !!

Think truckers are more likely to pick up a hitch-hiker esp if on a long haul gives them a bit of company on the way.

I gave a couple of lads a lift home from a nightclub once while i was waiting for my mate to come out, they asked if i was a cab (in a renault 5 turbo!!) and offered me 20 quid to take them 10 mins down the road, made them give me the cash first though !