Scotland!
I used to drive to Aberdeen quite regularly from the home counties. Had quite a few entertaining hitchers in with me, often university students heading home, but I always preferred to pick up red-platers, those guys who carry a personal numberplate that can be put on any vehicle to make it legal for them to deliver it.

Often they seem to be engaged in moving fleets of cars for corporate users to and from servicing businesses or fleet exchange places. One great trip was when I picked up a biker-looking guy with a red plate, just south of Perth, and had a sleep while he drove my Mondeo most of the way to Aberdeen. Arrived much more refreshed that time.... (He was engaged in returning a fleet of cars owned by a hospital to the dealers premises and had no return transport, he'd already got 3 of them to Perth and hitched back by the time I picked him up)

It may go wrong for me sometime but for now I'd recommend picking these guys up any time you see them - they usually have fascinating stories...
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Thu 21 Aug 2014, 23:10, 6 replies)

I'm not sure quite how,
but you have turned a story about people with fascinating stories into a startlingly dull anecdote. well played.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 21 Aug 2014, 23:57, closed)

I always wondered who those guys were
Don't have a car now so the knowledge has come too late to be of any use.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 22 Aug 2014, 16:19, closed)

I never thought of using one of them as a chauffeur
If they have interesting stories then give them a bit of paper with the qotw URL on it
( thistle, Sat 23 Aug 2014, 9:09, closed)

He had no complaint - I'd driven for over 9 hours at that time and since I was giving him a 90 mile lift from exactly where he started to exactly where he wanted to be, clearly felt it was a fair exchange.

Or at least a better deal than being killed alongside a sleeping driver as we sailed off the road...
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Sun 24 Aug 2014, 15:55, closed)

Yeah but they might kill you while you sleep and leave your body in a ditch

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sat 23 Aug 2014, 9:35, closed)

It did occur - but I felt on that day the chances of ending up dead in a ditch due to falling asleep at the wheel were higher.
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Sun 24 Aug 2014, 15:59, closed)