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Ohio Turnpike issues winter weather travel restriction Jan. 13 for high-profile vehicles

Ahead of an expected winter storm — with high winds and snow — the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission has issued a travel restriction across the entire 241-mile toll road for all high-profile vehicles from noon to 6 pm., Jan. 13, according to a news release.

High-profile vehicles are defined as height exceeding seven feet and six inches, the release said.

The following types of vehicles will be banned from traveling on the Ohio Turnpike until the travel restriction expires or is canceled, according to the release.

• 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.

The following types of vehicles will be permitted to travel on the Ohio Turnpike:

• 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 53-foot trailer with cargo/loaded

• Commercial trucks towing a car hauler trailer

•  Commercial trucks towing flatbed double-trailer combinations more than 90 feet

• Commercial trucks towing any double-trailer combinations less than 90 feet
• Two-axle buses less than 40 feet

•  Buses with three or more axles less than 45 feet.

The travel restriction on the Ohio Turnpike will be continually evaluated throughout the duration of the weather event, according to the release.