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Cars have the character from their province and a roman letter indicating the city in the province (A is always the capital). If you are in Anhui and see a 成 (Chengdu's "Cheng") with some numbers and an A, that's from Chengdu. These clues just tell you where the cars are from, but if they are outside their province, 50% chance they are traveling outside, 50% they are heading back home, so you can use it as a quite reliable critteria to select which cars to stop. Sometimes, 4 cities in the same highway have A the first one (capital), then B, C and D. If you go from the capital and wanna head far thru this highway, don't pick B, cos yea it may be going to the fourth city but most probably it will stop where it belongs, at the 2nd one. Etc.
If you want to sleep while on the road, just pick a slow and confortable truck, you'll make 400km in 8h but that's better than getting into a city (count all the time to get in and out + expenses) and even better than sleeping at the tolls or gas stations. The lack of malice (at an individual level at least!) of the Han, makes most of China easy to hitchhike 24h without fear. Chinese folks are genuinely good people!!.
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