TRAVEL ALERT

TRAVEL BAN EASTBOUND WESTBOUND

Please be advised that the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission has placed a Weather Event Travel Restriction into effect from December 23 6AM to December 25 at 8AM.  The Engineering Department is carefully monitoring the situation.  The Weather Event Travel Restriction may be expanded or reduced as conditions warrant.

The Ohio Turnpike remains open to most traffic. Only certain types of vehicles are restricted.

When a Weather Event Travel Restriction is placed into effect, the following types of vehicles shall be banned from traveling the Ohio Turnpike until the Restriction is lifted:

• All high-profile* tow-behind trailers, campers, boats, and enclosed trailers (excluding 5th wheel trailers) * - High-profile is defined as height exceeding 7’-6”.
• Commercial trucks towing an empty single 53-foot trailer
• All mobile homes, office trailers and livestock trailers.
• All long combination vehicle (LCV) long double-trailer combinations exceeding 90-feet in length. (Enclosed trailers only, including Conestoga type trailers)
• All LCV triple-trailer combinations.

NOT included in the Ohio Turnpike Travel Ban:

• Self-propelled motor homes
• Low-profile trailers
• Fold-down camper trailers
• Pickup trucks with slide-on camper units
• Vehicles towing fifth-wheel type trailers, or any other type of trailers towed by passenger vehicles or pickup trucks. 
• Commercial trucks towing single flatbed or box-type trailers
• Commercial trucks towing a single fifty-three (53) foot trailer
• Commercial trucks towing a car hauler trailer
• Commercial trucks towing flatbed double-trailer combinations in excess of ninety (90) feet
• Commercial trucks towing any double-trailer combinations less than ninety (90) feet.
• 2-axle buses less than forty (40) feet
• Buses with 3 or more axles less than forty-five (45) feet

If you have any questions, please contact the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission at 1-440-971-2081.