Hitch-hiking

To hitch-hike , to make stop (fam.), to raise/tighten the inch (fam.), to be made convey (fam.), to make inch (qc) or poucer (qc) is an economic means of Transport, where the traveller seeks to be made take along by a vehicle from the point of view of adventure and meeting. Such a person names a hitch-hiker , hitchkiker (fam.) or pouceux (qc fam.).

Description

The distance covered can vary from a way runs until a long voyage of several hitch-hikings . For the hitch-hikers, there can be several reasons to make stop: need (lack of means financial, not of other Means of transport available), the adventure (to meet unknown people), ecology (a car transports on average 1,3 passengers to France)…

Hitch-hiking is interdict on Autoroute in the majority of the countries and all ways prohibited with the pedestrians. It is tolerated on the level of the entries of highway, tolls and of the various surfaces. Everywhere in Europe, it is relatively easy to find transport. In America, it is very frequent to find a hitch-hiker on the roads. Everywhere in the world, this means of transport is always quite present and the inch is universal. It is, or, nevertheless was even disadvised interdict in certain places (in particular certain American states) due in particular at the sedentary risk. In certain countries in which the cars are rare, one cannot hitch-hike, because the happy owners of a vehicle make you pay the race - that is, for example, very frequent in the countries of Central Asia.

The far-sighted hitch-hiker generally uses a sign to announce his direction or his destination (little practiced for the ways short or unforeseen) what makes it possible to the motorists to more easily decide. The rising of inch is an international convention… it is quite as effective as a paperboard. It is necessary however to bring a precision concerning the inch, in certain countries, that can represent another thing, for example in Greece, raise the inch corresponds to raising the major one to France… Thus choose rising all the hand.

The hitch-hiker crafty one also chooses carefully his site. Generally it is advised to put itself where the cars slow down, or better still stop: red light, round not, stop, toll, surface, crossing,… where the motorists are slowed down and can consider the hitch-hiker well. To think all the same that your future driver must be able to park himself to let to you go up in all quietude. There is necessary to remain calm and courteous: if moved gestures are made, vis-a-vis the mocking remarks, with the mockeries of certain road users, anybody will not stop in front of such a behavior. It is of good tone to be clean on oneself and to increase the messieux chances of success, nothing is worth a fresh and shaven face.

References

a film (resulting from a book) was carried out on the subject. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is the history of an young girl to the disproportionate inches, talent which nature gave him, and its means of transport become hitch-hiking then. She in addition praises herself to have made stop during 6 days while crossing twice the American continent of is in west.

Bonds

LePouceux.com - Site devoted to hitch-hiking
Hitch-hiking directions for use by Routard.com
best places where to make stop in France
Hitchwiki a wiki in English and French.

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