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== Longest "driving the driver" ride ==
* '''781 km''', according to [[User:Fverhart|Frank Verhart]] from The Netherlands. Frank drove from service station Gralla Ost on the A9 near [[Graz]], [[Austria]] (26.2015-05.2015 @ 22h19-26T22:19) to service station Medenbach Ost on the A3 near [[Frankfurt am Main]], [[Germany]] (27.2015-05.2015 @ 10h28-27T10:28).
== Slowest hitchhiking between two points ==
* '''William Innes''' from Scotland, UK. He got a ride on a milk float on 'collection' day and it took 4.5 hours to travel 2 miles from North London to the start of the M1. '''(HGE)''' Note: It would take a reasonably fit person about 30 minites minutes to cover this distance on foot...
* '''Ruth Cleece''' from UK. She got a '''half-mile''' ride taking '''45 minutes''' on a steam-roller. '''(HGE)'''
== Guiness Book of Records Hitchhiking Entries ==
Until the early 1990'ies the UK edition of the Guinness Book of Records ('''GBOR''') used to list a number of hitch-hike world records. They were
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<li>The greatest distance hitched during a hitchhiking career <li>The fastest time to get from [[Land's End]] to [[John o'Groats]] (and the round trip) <li>The greatest distance hitched in a 24-hour period
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<li>[http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?05 World Records: Musings on what makes a record breaking hitch.] <li>[http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?06 More Records: Record breaking hitches in summary] <li>[http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?17 Me Hitch-hiker, You Hitch-hikee: Turning the tables]
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