I agree completely. Belgium is a great country to hitchhike on motorways, national roads and sideroads. Recently I took a short break on a service area, walked back to the filling station, saw two Muslims doing prayer direction Mekka at the backside of the restaurant, a van appeared, put up my thumb and off... Couple of days before we had on national / regional road hitching a civil servant in duty drove us tens of kilometers further than his destination "because I am still in my working area" over a very scenic route... Last summer ~ I'm not in Belgium every week ~ a driver with the whole family made (2x) 25 kilometer more to get me back to Maastricht...