Ohio & PA Turnpikes

[Dan Carr]

You are correct in that the Ohio turnpike weight limit per axle is
21,000. Each entrance onto the turnpike has a scale built into the
approach to the tollbooth so they do check it. I got rejected once
when I had forgotten to air up my tag axle.

I-80 is turnpike (fees) with weight limits from Indiana to Youngstown,
OH where it crosses I-76. I-76 becomes the turnpike(fees) into
Pennsylvania and remains turnpike the rest of the way across to
Philadelphia. PA uses scales for trucks only so no weight problems there.
At Youngstown, OH, I-80 becomes a freeway across PA and all the way
into New York City. It is wider than a lot of I-76 in PA which was
originally built before the Interstate road system was established.
They are working on widening I-76 which also causes lots of
construction areas.

Coming west we usually run on I-70 across Indiana into Ohio, take I-71
at Columbus up to I-76 and continue across eastern OH on I-76 to I-80.
With my underpowered PT40, these are flat enough that we can run with
traffic most everywhere. There is a little congestion where I-76 runs
through Akron OH, but not bad unless you hit it from 7:30-8:30 in the
AM or 3:30-5:30 in the PM. Then it takes an extra 20 minutes to get
through.

We live in the Youngstown area so use these roads a lot. Hope this
helps although if you are coming from the northern Indiana area, there
aren't a lot of options to I-80.

Dan Carr
82PT40 6V92


--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "ronmarabito2002"
wrote:
>
> Shane: That's good to know, but from what I understand, the axle
> limit is 21000 # on the Turnpike and I am at 21775. Actually, I only