Ohio Administrative Code › Title 5537 - Turnpike Commission › Chapter 5537-3 - Prohibited Uses › Section 5537-3-01 - Prohibited users

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
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.