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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 [[Prino's 24http://prino.neocities.org/miscellaneous/prino%27s%2024-hour record|%20record.html here]].
== Lifetime hitchhiking ==
"The greatest distance in 24 hours is 2318.4 km ''1440.7 miles'', from Southern [[Yugoslavia]] to [[Hamburg]], [[Germany|West Germany]] on 5 July 1989 by Robert Prins of [[De Bilt]], [[The Netherlands]]. He achieved this with just four lifts."
Full details of the four rides that led to this record can be found [[Prino's 24http://prino.neocities.org/miscellaneous/prino%27s%2024-hour record|%20record.html here]].
== The US edition of the Guinness Book of Records ==
