Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
Yes. Trade plates pretty much gauranteed a lift from a lorry within moments of holding them out. I once got a lift from Newport docks directly to my front door. Mind you, long distance lorry drivers can be a very, very odd bunch. A Dutch driver once had me absolutely convinced that he was kidnapping me to give me a good búggering, as he absolutely refused to stop to let me out, until, for no reason at all, he pulled up on the A120 and demanded I leave. Middle of fúcking nowhere, it was.
I was in the cab of a scouse lorry driver once who, as we neared my drop-off point outside Coventry, tried to persuade me to come to Liverpool with him for a 'game of pool'. I was happy to escape that one.