Travel ban issued for high-profile vehicles on Ohio Turnpike ahead of winter storm
The Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission has issued a travel ban for certain vehicles ahead of an incoming winter storm this week.
Due to anticipated high winds with rain and snow across northern Ohio, a travel ban will be in effect along the entire 241-mile Ohio Turnpike from 8 a.m. on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, through 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, November 27, 2025.
The following vehicle types are restricted from the Ohio Turnpike while the travel ban is in place:
- 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
The following vehicle types are permitted to travel on the Ohio Turnpike during the 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 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 Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission will continue to monitor weather conditions and evaluate the travel ban during the storm.