Turnpike issues high wind travel ban

VW independent staff/submitted information

With high winds in the forecast, including gusts up to 50 miles per hour, the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission has issued a travel ban across the entire 241-mile toll road for all high-profile vehicles from 8 a.m. EST, Wednesday to 11:59 p.m. Thanksgiving Day.

High-profile vehicles are defined as height exceeding 7 feet and 6 inches.

The following types of vehicles will be banned from traveling on the Ohio Turnpike until the travel restriction expires or is canceled:

• All high-profile tow-behind trailers, campers, boats, and enclosed trailers. (Fifth wheel trailers are excluded.)
• Commercial trucks towing an empty single 53-foot trailer
• All mobile homes, office trailers and livestock trailers
• All long combination vehicles (LCV) that include long double-trailer combinations exceeding 90-feet in length. (Enclosed trailers only, including Conestoga type trailers)
• All LCV triple-trailer combinations
• 2-axle buses longer than forty (40) feet
• Buses with 3 or more axles greater than forty-five (45) feet