Five-point controllers on the steering wheel are easily operated with the thumb, which lets drivers keep their eyes on the road.
From the beginning of summer through the onset of winter he travels alone, mostly by train and bus but also by way of airplane and thumb (paying the drivers small fares, as was the custom for hitchhikers even in Socialist times).
Cyclist, 4, gives lorry driver thumbs up Jump to media player A family posts a video of a "kind" lorry driver overtaking cyclists, as their child shouts her thanks.
Waiters routinely talk down to diners and taxi drivers thumb their noses at fares.
The day before, the Hartford police said, Mr. Biggs stole a car after cutting the driver's thumb and ordering him out of the car.
The stock car sanctioning body told its Winston Cup teams to install a stop on the car's throttle assembly and an on-off switch on the steering wheel, within reach of the driver's thumb.
As a rule of thumb, the older the driver is, the happier your parents will be.
Another witness had Mr. Torn immediately diving beneath the truck and giving the driver a thumbs up.
It's possible that from time to time a Misfits or McCain message hits its mark, and somebody, somewhere, gives a thumbs up to another driver.
After failing to get a ride that first night, we pitched our tent on a rugby field in town, and in the morning, after another several hours waiting with our thumbs out, a white driver and black passenger in a little hatchback, both men drinking beers for breakfast, took pity on us.
