I did it for a few months waiting for a transporter to come available on my first transporter gig.
TBF i earned pretty well but travelling ex’s were only paid in extreme circs with hitching the standard method of getting about which sometimes meant long walks…try and find a bus going to Bruntingthorpe or any of the many out of the way places large compounds are sited.
Luckily who i worked for had the contract to repaint BT vans and trucks in the new at the time livery, so many weeks were spent taking a freshly painted one to a depot and returning with one needing paint.
Those older drivers should remember picking up the many platers who worked out of Ford’s long gone van factory at Langley, they made good money on their ex’s (no receipts reqd), some of them would offer you a drink for a decent length ride, which i never accepted.
Ended up with 4 platers in my Sed Ack circa 1980 early one morning, batting up the A1 at a steady er 60-ish 
with them all chopsing when a pheasant decided to commit suicide against the front panel, only i saw it coming, for the platers it was a brown trouser moment 