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<li>Possibly around '''1,100 km''' by [[User:Prino|Prino]] from the Netherlands. During his longest ride, a 2,502.9 km monster from a petrol station near [[Platamonas]] (1990-08-13T16:32) in [[Greece]] to [[Driebergen]] (1990-08-15T12:54) in the Netherlands, he drove during five periods, for a total time of 10:06 out of a total driving time of 22:41. The distance is based on the average speed of the ride, and the sections driven.</li>
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* '''2777 km''' (1736 miles), according to [mailto:[email protected] Pavel Trcala], from [[Czech Republic]]. Time 28 November 1998 07:30 - 29 November 1998 06:30. The route: Miami to Chicago via Jacksonville (Florida), Savannah (Georgia), Columbia (South Carolina), Asheville (North Carolina), Knoxville (Tennessee), Lexington (Kentucky), Toledo (Ohio), South Bend (Indiana), and Harvey (Illinois). The route was done in five lifts.
* '''2750 km''', according to [http://www.vladas.com/ Vladas Sapranavicius], member of [[VHHC|Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club]]. Time: 21 August 1996 22:00 – 22 August 1996 22:00 [http://www.viamichelin.com/ ViaMichelin] gives as expected travel time for Almeria - Potsdam: 24 hours and 51 minutes. The route: Almeria (E) – Murcia (E) – Barcelona (E) – Montpellier (F) – Lyon (F) – Frankfurt (D) – Potsdam (D). 4 lifts (Almeria – Montpellier; Montpellier – Lyon; Lyon – Salzgitter; Salzgitter – Potsdam). The average speed (including waiting for the ride + a cup of beer in the restaurant): 115 km/h. The maximum speed: 170 km/h.
* [[File:Gbor-cut.jpg|left|thumb|280px]] '''2318.4 km''', according to [[User:Prino|Robert Prins]], hitchhiker from, at the time, the [[Netherlands]]. It was done in 4 lifts through [[Yugoslavia]], [[Austria]] and [[Germany]] during 20.47 hours. The record was included on page 179 of the '''UK''' 1991 edition of the Guinness Book of Records. Full details of the four rides that led to this record can be found [httphttps://prino.neocities.org/miscellaneous/prino%27s%2024prinos-24-hour%20record-record.html here].
== Lifetime hitchhiking ==
== The lowest temperature ==
* '''–63°C'''. It was for hitchhiker '''Elena Saturova''', member of PASL in January 1992 between Ust’-Nera and Sasuman in East Yakutya, Russia.
* During their expedition to the Nordkapp in January 2018, hitchhikers of the DTSG encountered temperatures down to '''–30 °C''' in Finnish Lapland. The hitchhiking nomad '''Sven Kopf''' even slept outside during those temperatures.
== The highest speed ==
== Highest number of countries within 24 hours ==
* '''10''', according to Miran Ipavec from Slovenia. Miran hitched this in 23 hours and 15 minutes, starting on 2018-03-14. In this order he passed these countries: Serbia, Croatia*, Bosnia and Herzegovina**, Slovenia*, Italy**, Austria*, Germany**, Hungary*, Slovakia, Czech Republic. . Countries marked * were passed twice, and at those marked ** Ipavec changed direction retunred into the previous country at the border.
== Highest number of countries within 10 days ==
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<li> [[User:Korn|Stefan Korn]] hitchhiked from Fairbanks down to British Colombia and got a 2676km long ride from [[Tok]] [[Alaska]] to [[Cache Creek]] in [[British Columbia]] (2014-01-13T). Around '''1.600 km''' he drove by himself.</li>
<li>'''1,113.6 km''', by [[User:Prino|Prino]] from the Netherlands, a ride from service station Deersels on the A67 near [[Sevenum]], [[The Netherlands]] (2018-09-04T14:13) to service station Brwinów on the A2 near [[Brwinów]], [[Poland]] (2018-09-05T12:24) - Prino drove the entire distance, driver even paid for a hotel room at night. Possibly around '''1,100 km''', also by [[User:Prino|Prino]]. During his longest ride, a 2,502.9 km monster from a petrol station near [[Platamonas]] (1990-08-13T16:32) in [[Greece]] to [[Driebergen]] (1990-08-15T12:54) in the Netherlands, he drove during five periods, for a total time of 10:06 out of a total driving time of 22:41. The distance is based on the average speed of the ride, and the sections driven.</li>
<li>'''781 km''', according to [[User:Fverhart|Frank Verhart]] from the [[Netherlands]]. Frank drove from service station Gralla Ost on the A9 near [[Graz]], [[Austria]] (2015-05-26T22:19) to service station Medenbach Ost on the A3 near [[Frankfurt am Main]], [[Germany]] (2015-05-27T10:28).</li>
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