I picked one up today, he only needed to go 1 junction and I was going that way anyway. Nice bloke, tidy and polite.
Having trade plated HGVs back in the 90s the best and worst i had with lifts was delivering wagon into asda wigan, got a lift by asda wagon to M6, J26 and then out and immediately picked up and took to brum services then picked straight up and down to j24 coldra, M4, total time = 2 hours 45 minutes ( quicker than i could off got back in a wagon 
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Worst was after droppping a hiab rigid in hitchen got a lift to M1 at luton, flipped a coin and decided to go up and around (M1,M6,M5,M50) instead of down and around (M1, M25, M4) worst decision of my life !! spent the whole early evening getting short lifts to every services up the M1 to the M6 and stuck at corley services untill midnight when a cracking artic driver picked me up and took me round to droitwich turning where upon i swiftly booked myself into the local travel lodge at companies expense !!
Company I last worked for allowed spouses, offspring and friends, but hitch hikers were a no-no.
Contraflow:
FarnboroughBoy11:
Who’s gonna know??Someone might find out if, say for instance, the trade plater’s dead body has to be cut out of the wreckage after an accident.
FarnboroughBoy11:
And the insurance bit is a load of bollox.Not necessarily.
you also never know when you`ll bump into one of your grassing comrades.(travelling the other way).
I got picked up the other day by a driver with a big well known company, and the subject of insurance came up.
The driver said as far as he was concerned we were helping each other out,Him by giving me a lift ,Me by helping him with the boredom of monotonous driving,and I reckon that boredom is the cause of more accidents than drink driving.
As for being grassed on by jobsworths, he said if his firm was prepared to lose a good experienced driver, over giving another driver a lift , they could stick their job. I didnt catch his name , but thanks for the lift Drive.
Wonder how many on here would pick up a trade plater or hitch hiker if they were a stunning buxom blonde with a hourglass figure and double d hooters?! 
sod the company policy I’d say! 
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
Wonder how many on here would pick up a trade plater or hitch hiker if they were a stunning buxom blonde with a hourglass figure and double d hooters?!
So, a 70 year old with a belly has no chance then LOL.
I picked one up once at J12 M1, he said he only wanted to go to J14, once on the way, I said you have to be fg joking I am on a mission, so dropped him off at Shap 
aint nobody got time for dat
Ramon123:
I’ve done a fair bit of hitch hiking in the past and never had a lift off a trade plater.One told me they weren’t allowed to take passengers due to insurance purposes.I always think of this when I drive past them and give them the thumbs up.
I’m a plater myself and have been told about other platers using the “insurance excuse” just because they’re arseh0les. ( It’s mainly BCA drivers).
I’d give any plater, no matter who he worked for, a lift and would even go out of my way to get him onto his next vehicle if possible. You never know when we might meet again and he/she can return the favour.
I picked one up years ago when I was on Toleman’s (Car Transporters). It was hacking it down with rain and he was standing by the A249 wanting to go to Sheerness. I was heading for Sheerness Dock so no problem.
Most people would have been grateful getting a lift in those conditions… not this miserable git, he moaned all the way to Sheerness. Not about the weather or his job but about his life. I felt bloody suicidal after listening to him. No plater ever got a lift after that!