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[[File:Hh-maroc-camion.jpg|left|300px|thumb|right|[[User:Amylin|Amylin]], inside a truck, hitchhiking onto the ferry from [[Algeciras]], [[Spain]] to [[Tangier|Tanger]], [[Morocco]], April 2008.]]
==== 2016 and onward (post-renovations) ====
[[User:Payne]] reports, from hitching the ferry to Morocco in April 2017:
There are more or less two ways to hitch the ferry. You will either ask around in the parking area, or wait at the entrance gate for the trucks boarding the ferry. You are not assured to get an exit stamp of the Schengen Area through any of those options.
The first roundabout South of the boarding station/ticket boots leads you to the parking area where all the trucks wait before boarding, but also after coming out of the ferry that arrived from Morocco (good opportunities to head out very far into Europe will arise from asking around there!).
Multiple parking areas will be awaiting you. Enter the area through the opening in the fence, right before the gates where truckers exit the area, about 50 meters from the roundabout. It is perfectly legal for you to be in there and to ask around for a ride (words of the Portuary Police themselves). However, do not talk to the trucks on the road as the act of soliciting a ride is actually illegal in the port (words, again, of the Portuary Police). I take it that "soliciting a ride" only applies to a running vehicle on the road.
You will have better chances to find a ride if you walk through that first parking area and cross into the second area (there is another opening in the fence back there). The whole point of this is just to avoid walking through the exit gate.
Use the license plates to find out in which language you should try to communicate with the drivers.
If you catch a trucker that still hasn't submitted his forms to the authorities, it is apparently possible that he might be able to get you an exit stamp if you give him your passport, but it would then be possible that you would have to wait a few days around. A truck boarding the ferry has already done all the paperwork, which is why you end up skipping the Spanish Border Authorities.
If you want to try the other option, you should head into the boarding building and find out when the next ferry is leaving: trucks will start driving through the ferry's entrance gate (first roundabout North of the boarding building) as early as an hour and a half before the ferry leaves.
On the ferry, a man sitting in a chair with a computer in front of him will be doing the Entrance Stamp to Morocco. He will not be there throughout the whole trip, so take care of that as early as possible once you are on board. Usually, you will get a free meal and a free shower once on board.
The boarding building in Spain has 1 hour of free Wi-Fi to offer. On the Moroccan side, it is supposed to be the same, but it actually turns off more or less every half hour, but also allows you to log in again infinitely.
== Coming from Morocco ==
