This is the moment a British lorry driver realized a stowaway migrant had hitched a ride - but quickly begged to get off when he was told they were going to Belgium.
Sam Sullivan, 26, was at the Calais truck stop picking up his export paperwork so he could leave the dock just before 5 pm on Friday when he saw the young man get on the back of his lorry.
The former Household Cavalry trooper - who was transporting chicken feed - told The Daily Mail, 'it is almost guaranteed' that a migrant will hop on your lorry at the Calais truck stop, adding: 'Yoseeen them the second you get off the boat.'
He said: 'I left the secure part where it's all gated and migrants can't get in, but the second you leave that compound, you've got a group of probably about 30 of them at the door waiting.
'As I was leaving with my paperwork, I picked up a bit of speed, so they didn't do anything stupid.
'He left the group and ran after me, a nd as I am approaching the roundabout to get out of the truck stop, I've slowed down to about 20 mph, and he jumped on at that speed.'
Mr Sullivan, from Ramsgate, Kent, who has been driving lorries internationally for 9 weeks, said he knew the stowaway's goal was to get to England, so he turned left for Belgium instead.
He only drove around 300 meters down the motorway before the migrant, who he believes was around 16 years old, realized he was headed for Belgium and began tapping the side of his lorry and asking him to slow down and stop.
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