User talk:Zenit

Hey Zenit, welcome to hitchwiki! :) Thanks for your contributions to St. Gallen, hope to see more soon ;) Cheers, --Platschi 08:32, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Will do my best. But I'm not getting around so much by hitchhiking, so I won't be able to create tons of new articles ;-)--86.118.137.200 10:54, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, that was me^^--Zenit 13:33, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on the phrasebooks. Maybe you have some ideas about how to make it easier for people to add more phrases to it? guaka 16:12, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

I thought we could a) post a link to the phrasebooks and an invitation to edit them in a more prominent spot where more people with more language-knowledge could read about the idea and b) standardise it all a bit more and arrange it a bit better so it's more comfortable to edit, for example put all the languages in templates and use the 46 standard English phrases as a consensus which we should try and fill all the languages in with. Are you gonna be in Sines?--Zenit 18:04, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

I think b) is important to get to a). Not many Hitchwiki contributors are as comfortable with wikis as you and me. But I don't have clear ideas about b)

I won't be in Sines in August. guaka 22:41, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Your African edits inspired me to add some Bambara and fill in the Western African red links with stubs :) guaka 01:09, 7 April 2011 (CEST)

Trucks in Spain

Can you clarify this:

Spanish trucks, as of February 2011, cannot pick up hitchhikers any more and you'll be pressed hard to find an exception. Also trucks from the UK will very rarely pick you up for insurance issues. Zenit found German trucks to be your most probable candidate for picking you up, but that could also be because his native language is German. Prino 07:56, 3 May 2011 (CEST)

I probably can... if you let me know what's unclear to you ;-)--Zenit 13:34, 3 May 2011 (CEST)

Why can't they pick up hitchhikers? And how has that changed in February 2011? --MrTweek 13:44, 3 May 2011 (CEST)

I gotta run right now, but I'll fix it in a little while... anyway, there was some kind of new law in Feb11 about insurance or something. I'll look into it a bit more when I'm back. All the best--Zenit 13:52, 3 May 2011 (CEST)

Ok, so here's what I know... when I was hitching in Spain in early april, I met this Slovak hitchhiker who had been around Spain for some time. He told me that since feb11 spanish trucks can't pick up hhers anymore... now I assume that's because of some change in laws or something to do with insurance policies. I don't know for sure. It did make a lot of sense though with everything spanish truckers said when I talked to them about me getting a lift. Anyway, I'll try and make that paragraph in the article a bit clearer, see if you'll like it better.--Zenit 16:52, 3 May 2011 (CEST)

So essentially it's hear-say! I think we should get some kind of official confirmation of this before we actually put it on-line, e.g. does this only apply to Spanish trucks, or to all trucks... - I don't think the Spanish authorities can ban a second driver in a foreign truck ;) Prino 17:08, 3 May 2011 (CEST)

Yeah, it's hearsay. But so is a lot in this wiki, and the remainder is mainly non-empirical original research ;-) I tried googling a bit but I didn't find anything, not a surprise. I do think, though, that Spanish authorities could ban passengers in all trucks on their territory very easily if they were so inclined. but I don't think they would have, so I tend to think it's about insurance -- I also talked to spanish truckers in france and they were on about it as well. I'll rephrase it to hearsay, then ;-)--Zenit 17:38, 3 May 2011 (CEST)

Rotterdam

I think it's best to delete the spot you just added for Rotterdam. If it's probably illegal, there's no reason to recommend it above the place already mentioned, which is easy to reach and has abundant room to stop. CRCulver 03:53, 8 July 2011 (CEST)

I don't necessarily agree for two reasons: a) is it in a different part of town and closer for a whole bunch of people and b) is it IMHO always preferrable to have if not several then at least two different options for hitching out of a town. If you can't agree feel free to delete away, though :-) are you still in Cluj, by the way?--Zenit 04:13, 8 July 2011 (CEST)

Multiple options are good, but only if they are legal. I don't know, your description of the second place doesn't really inspite confidence. Yes, I'm still in Cluj, though I'm leaving for European Rainbow in a couple of weeks. CRCulver 05:32, 8 July 2011 (CEST)