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'''Petrol station [[hitchhiking]]''' , as well as hitchhiking on [[service station]]s in general, is especially a great way to travel for free in countries where there it's not allowed to hitchhike hitchhiking on highways is forbidden. It generally works best if the high-way and where there are enough but not too many gas number of petrol stations on the a highwayis around 1-2 per 100-150 km ''(?)''. At On most gas stations everyone is mostly you can easily find cars going your direction, though although you have to be aware of high-way crossinghighway splits, too.

[[Germany]] is especially good for this. In [[France]] is less appropriate, since it has an works slightly worse (even though still good enough) because of the higher occurrence number of gas stationsper given distance, thus with relatively less cars per gas station.

[[Image:Autohof.png|thumb|200px|right|Avoid these ones In general, avoid so called ''Autohof''s when in [[Germany]]- these are truck stops located further from highways, most of the and you can lose quite some timewhile waiting for a ride there.]]In When in Germany you should possibly , it is generally recommended to avoid the "so called ''Autohofs", they're ' which usually are not great, since for hitching a ride mostly because they are not located directly on highways and it is hard to get a ride from there is no clear in exact directionof where you are heading to.

It Sometimes it can be useful to connect to the get in touch with people who work at the on a gas station. Asking drivers directly instead of waiting for the car at the area's exit is a good way to catch a ride. For girls it's It is recommended to can that female-hitchhikers first ask generally the male driver(s) where he (they ) is (are ) going to, instead of revealing one's own destination in a question to the driver, so you can always pretend that during the conversation it would become clear if it is safe or not to not go there with that driver, and if you don't feel sure about it. Asking specific places feels risky, one can be good as wellpretend not going the same direction.

Starting a conversation will give drivers more chance chances to look at you as a person. It makes it is less likely then that they their answer will send you awaybe negative if the direction of yours and the driver's destinations matches.

In [[Italy]] you have to be careful. It's : it is illegal to hitchhike on the so called ''autostrada'', although it's is a bit unclear if it's is illegal to do that on the ''autostrada'' gas stations on the highway as well.