If you were displaying trade plates, I would have been the first one to have stopped and picked you up. I've even gone out of my way to drop a trade plater off at a location where he was more likely to get a lift going nearer to where he had to get to because, I was always glad of a lift back when I was dropping cars off at auctions, or on the odd occasion that I had broken down and had to get back home and borrow a car transporter trailer, and find something with a ball hitch on it to recover the car.
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"If you were displaying trade plates, I would have been the first one to have stopped and picked you up. I've even gone out of my way to drop a trade plater off at a location where he was more likely to get a lift going nearer to where he had to get to because, I was always glad of a lift back when I was dropping cars off at auctions, or on the odd occasion that I had broken down and had to get back home and borrow a car transporter trailer, and find something with a ball hitch on it to recover the car.
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Yes was a trade player you would ofvbeen a dream   |
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By *r.SJMan
over a year ago
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Yep, I used to when I was a courier... on one occasion though, chap asked if he could smoke. Not an issue, I used to smoke like a chimney when driving  so if course said yes... issue being was what he smoked! He'd already rolled it so I had no idea, until he filed the cab with the smoke from his joint  |
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A few years ago I picked up a stranded wedding party on the way to the church after the brides old fashioned car broke down!!
Not every day you pick up a random bride to be ha ha |
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By *tue555Man
over a year ago
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"One of my previous jobs was delivering vehicles all over the country .I had to do a bit of hitchhiking and was lucky in some lifts .my question to you is have you ever picked up hitch hikers  "
One of the biggest changes, apart from stranger danger awareness, is more modern times, far more young people have cars so why hitchhike.
When I was in my teens only kids with very rich parents had cars. So the only
To travel was walk, public transport, or hitch hike
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"One of my previous jobs was delivering vehicles all over the country .I had to do a bit of hitchhiking and was lucky in some lifts .my question to you is have you ever picked up hitch hikers
One of the biggest changes, apart from stranger danger awareness, is more modern times, far more young people have cars so why hitchhike.
When I was in my teens only kids with very rich parents had cars. So the only
To travel was walk, public transport, or hitch hike
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very true my friend things have moved on and to be fair in my day it was a means to an end |
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"I've hitched a few times myself so always stop and pick up anyone I see ...... my dad goes mad with me so now I say nowt x
Cant wait to be back on the roads only 18 month to wait now ?? "
what is holding you back ie 18 months |
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I have thankfully been given four lifts in the last couple of years from hitching twice in parts of Scotland and twice in the Lakes. People are not as giving of themselves these days with all the fear porn they’ve been fed throughout their lives. But there’s always some who put the action in of caring for others. |
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"A few years ago I picked up a stranded wedding party on the way to the church after the brides old fashioned car broke down!!
Not every day you pick up a random bride to be ha ha "
What a lovely thing to do, hope you got an invite to the party ! |
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I can't drive but I used to hitch hike all the time when I was younger. One time I was trying to get to the U.S border in a car that had huge holes in the bottom so you could see the road beneath. The guy riding shot gun had a bucket of beer. We crashed twice but made it to the border. I had many memorable hitches and no bad ones. Those huge HGV are awesome.
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"I can't drive but I used to hitch hike all the time when I was younger. One time I was trying to get to the U.S border in a car that had huge holes in the bottom so you could see the road beneath. The guy riding shot gun had a bucket of beer. We crashed twice but made it to the border. I had many memorable hitches and no bad ones. Those huge HGV are awesome.
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brilliant that is what I call hitchhiking x |
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