Around 10% of my rides have been between 22:00 and 07:00. Many of them were from Raststaettes and the like, but I've had quite a few rides just standing at the side of the road.

The key requirement is that you are visible, in years gone by that meant waving my white bag or finding lampposts, nowadays I alway carry a reflective belt and some reflective thingies around my wrists.

I've never correlated the waiting times at night to the time, but if it turns out that I cannot add a current mainframe feature to the PC version my hitch-hike statistics programs, I might convert the latter into a format that can be compiled by another compiler (they're now 16-bit DOS...) and add such a feature. FWIW, drop me a line if you want the programs.

Robert
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Robert AH Prins (254,000+ km and counting)
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