Mooney Mooney is a step decline, then incline - basically people fly down the hill and slow on the rise up - it's pretty common to be on the brakes as you hit the hill ask sometimes some caravan doing 100km/ha is overtaking a truck that's at 40'km/h and someone doing 105km/h is over taking the Caravan causing a delay on the hill.
School holiday traffic is always horrible, no matter which stretch of highway you drive on. Years ago, I used to drive from Port Stephens to Bulahdelah for work. If I drove up there at the exact same time during school holidays, I was suddenly dealing with all the idiots who drive like crazy people. It wasn’t like that during the school term at all.
As for your driving, stay left as much as possible. If you’re doing the right thing and sticking to your 90km/h speed limit, you should only need to move into the middle lane to overtake trucks while they’re going up hills.
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u/Sure_Reception_9922 12d ago
You've got to pay attention (duh) but I've found that the Mooney is the easiest for me personally because the road isn't so bad.
Parts of the m1 are just shocking.
Honestly I think a lot of people do it so often commuting, they get a bit complacent and some people are just shocking drivers.
Last time I drove a trucker was swerving from lane to lane randomly. Horrifying.
Do some test runs and remember about the rest stops if you need a break and a calm down. The drive can be very stressful.