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A man who stowed away beneath a B-double trailer instead of paying for a short taxi ride home is lucky to be alive after he ended up travelling nearly 400 kilometres on metal racks suspended barely a metre off the road.

Truck driver Pardeep Dahiya said he was driving a Sydney-Brisbane freight run and had stopped in Nambucca Heads for a short nap at about 1:30am on Friday.

Mr Dahiya said he initially thought to phone the police and report the stowaway but instead took pity on the man and gave him some water and offered him a seat inside the truck, rather than under it, to ride further north.

When the conversation between the pair became hard to maintain, Mr Dahiya revised his decision and called police from a service station at Coomera, on the northern Gold Coast.

Acting Inspector Peter Miles said the 43-year-old had told officers he climbed under the truck at Nambucca Heads, hoping to hitch a ride to Coffs Harbour where he planned to disembark at a red light.

"There's bumps in the road, objects potentially flying up and hitting you, the types of speeds involved, side wind shear and all of those forces that might have affected [his] grip," he said.

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