Rule 5537-3-01 | Prohibited users.
The following shall not be permitted to travel on the turnpike:
(A) Pedestrians.
(B) Bicycles.
(C) Vehicles drawn by animals.
(D) Animals led, ridden, or driven on the hoof.
(E) Vehicles transporting animals or poultry not properly secured or confined.
(F) Self-propelled or towed construction, agricultural, or other similar equipment not designed for or employed in general highway transportation.
(G) Vehicles with improperly secured loads.
(H) Vehicles with metal tires, solid tires, or deflated pneumatic tires and vehicles with caterpillar treads, except by special permit issued by the commission.
(I) Such vehicles as, in the opinion of a commission toll collector or collectors or any police officer, are deemed to be unsafe or to be such as to create a hazard upon the turnpike. The burden of proof of the safe condition of such vehicles shall be upon the operators of such vehicles.
(J) Vehicles, including any loads thereon, which exceed the following maximum dimensions:
| Width -Eight feet, six inches | for all vehicle |
| Height - Thirteen feet, six inches | for all vehicles |
| Length - Forty feet, zero inches | for single units except passenger bus with three or more axles, |
| Length - Forty-five feet, zero inches | for passenger bus with three or more axles, |
| Length - Seventy-five feet, zero inches | for commercial tractor and semi-trailer combinations ( length does not include safety devices or bumpers attached to the front or rear of such combinations.) The length does include overhang, except that automobile transporters may have up to a four- foot overhang in the rear and a three- foot overhang in the front of the vehicle (for a total maximum length of eighty-two feet). |
| Length - Ninety feet, zero inches | for any long combination vehicles (length does not include safety devices or bumpers attached to the front or rear of such combinations), |
provided, however, that the operator or operators of any such over dimensional vehicle or vehicles may submit an application online to the commission for a permit to enter and travel upon the turnpike and the commission may, in its discretion, grant such permit, in writing, upon such terms as it may prescribe; provided further that buses and emergency vehicles shall be exempt from length limitation.
(K) Vehicles exceeding allowable axle load or gross weight as determined by automatic toll equipment or other equipment such as portable scales as follows:
(1) Maximum axle load - 21,000 lbs.,
(2) Maximum combined axle load of any two successive axles, spaced four feet or less apart - 24,000 lbs.,
(3) Maximum combined axle load of any two successive axles, spaced more than four feet apart but less than eight feet apart - 34,000 lbs.,
(4) Maximum gross weight - 90,000 lbs.,
provided, however, that the operator or operators of any such overweight vehicle or vehicles may submit an application online to the commission for a permit to enter and travel upon the turnpike and the commission may, in its discretion, grant such permit, in writing, upon such terms as it may prescribe.
(L) Vehicles transporting hazardous materials, including, but not limited to, explosives, compressed gasses, flammable liquids, flammable solids, oxidizers, poisons, radioactive materials, and corrosive liquids, except, however, if the operator or operators of any such vehicle or vehicles have registered such vehicle or vehicles with the appropriate agencies and display, by such vehicles or the operators thereof, the appropriate warning or identifying flags and signs and permitting documentation as prescribed by federal regulations or the statutes of the state of Ohio.
(M) During high winds or during the prevalence of other adverse weather conditions, long combination vehicles, high-profile tow-behind trailers (excluding fifth wheel trailers), campers, boats, enclosed trailers, all mobile homes, office trailers, and livestock trailers. High-profile is defined as height exceeding seven feet six inches.
(N) Vehicles that are not capable of maintaining a speed of at least forty miles per hour on level grade.
(O) Vehicles in tow by a rope, chain or other non-rigid connection.
(P) Disabled vehicles in tow except under the following conditions:
(1) Passenger vehicles which become disabled and must be removed only by towing or pushing, shall be removed by being towed or pushed to the nearest exit by a service vehicle from an official turnpike contract garage.
(2) Trucking and bus company vehicles, which become disabled and must be removed by towing or pushing, shall be removed only by being towed or pushed to the nearest exit by a service vehicle from an official turnpike contract garage, a company owned and operated service unit, or an agency operating under contract with the subject company whose vehicle is disabled.
(3) Passengers are prohibited from riding in any vehicle being towed or pushed on the turnpike.
Last updated September 1, 2023 at 9:07 AM
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