Florida Turnpike oversize restrictions: toll-road widths, lanes and heights

Several permit sites say Florida’s Turnpike takes loads up to 12 feet wide and 13 feet 6 inches high. The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) sets no such cap. It limits width at named toll plazas and ramps, from 9 to 15 feet, and lists the Turnpike overpasses a tall load has to fit under. The tables below are FDOT’s list.

The short version

There’s no single width or height limit on Florida’s Turnpike. FDOT’s route restrictions, revised July 2026, cap width at 94 toll plazas and ramps; the tightest are Turnpike ramps, at 9 feet at two, 10 feet at four. The Turnpike’s low overpasses run from 14 feet 4 inches to 15 feet 6 inches. No toll road issues its own oversize permit, because FDOT’s permit covers the Turnpike (Rule 14-61.0015(3)). Permigo files it for $20, with no extra fee for Turnpike miles. Permigo read FDOT’s sheet on October 16, 2026. Florida’s own permit rules are on the Florida page.

See the restrictions on a map

Set your load’s width and height. Red dots are too narrow or too low for it. Amber dots take it only in the lane FDOT names. Green rings are clear. Tap a dot to see FDOT’s limits there. The sliders also mark the matching rows in the tables below.

How wide can a load be on Florida’s toll roads?

It depends on the route. The wider the load, the more toll plazas and ramps it has to avoid. This table counts them from FDOT’s list.

So a permit’s route has to avoid every point the load can’t clear. A 10-foot load can’t leave the Turnpike northbound at SR-838, where the off-ramp takes 9 feet, so its route uses another exit. Over 16 feet wide, a load is a superload in Florida, which the superload guide explains. Every point is listed at the end of this guide.

The line “Florida turnpike limit is 12′ wide, 13′6 high” is printed, almost word for word, on at least three permit-service sites Permigo read on October 16, 2026. FDOT’s route restrictions don’t say it, and neither do its blanket permit movement conditions, its “When do you need a permit?” sheet or the Turnpike’s rule. 13 feet 6 inches is Florida’s legal height.

How high can a load be on the Turnpike?

Florida’s legal height is 13 feet 6 inches, and routine permits go up to 18 feet. Between the two, the Turnpike’s overpasses decide the route. FDOT lists 8 low points on the Turnpike and its Homestead Extension (SR-821).

Two roads that run under the Turnpike have limits of their own:

Which lane does a wide load use at a toll plaza?

The one FDOT names. Over 12 feet, 23 plazas and ramps send the load to a named lane, most often the outer-right. Three Sample Road and Pinellas Bayway points start lower, at 10 or 11 feet.

Do you need a separate permit for the Turnpike?

No. The Turnpike’s rule lets a vehicle over legal size onto the Turnpike with FDOT’s oversize permit (“a special hauling permit issued by the Department in accordance with Chapter 14-26”). That’s Rule 14-61.0015(3), amended December 5, 2018. Older pages cite Rule 14-61.0014, repealed the same day. Permigo files the Florida permit for $20, Turnpike miles included.

Tolls are separate. The Turnpike charges by axle count and distance, its FAQ says, so an oversize load pays by its axles like any truck. The Florida permit’s own fee is in the cost guide.

The one Turnpike permit is for Turnpike Tandems, two long trailers behind one tractor. Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise issues it, and a tandem may be no wider than 8 feet 6 inches or higher than 13 feet 6 inches (Rule 14-61.0017). It isn’t an oversize permit.

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Escorts on the Turnpike

The Turnpike adds no escort rule of its own. Florida’s Rule 14-26.012 treats limited-access roads like the Turnpike differently in three cases:

• Over 16' wide, Rule 14-26.012 requires two law enforcement escorts on state-maintained roads that are not limited-access facilities. On a limited-access facility it asks for two qualified escorts by day, or one law enforcement and one qualified escort at night.
• Over 150' long, Rule 14-26.012 requires two escorts, front and rear, unless the load is on a limited-access facility, where one is enough.
• Self-propelled equipment built for off-road use may not move on a limited-access road at all.

The Florida page has the full escort table.

Which roads do these limits cover?

All of Florida’s toll roads on FDOT’s sheet. Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise runs the roads on its system maps: the Turnpike (SR-91) and its Homestead Extension (SR-821), the Sawgrass Expressway (SR-869), the Polk Parkway (SR-570), the Veterans Expressway and Suncoast Parkway (SR-589), the Seminole Expressway, Southern Connector Extension, Western Beltway and Beachline expressways (parts of SR-417, SR-429 and SR-528), the I-4 Connector, the First Coast Expressway (SR-23) and the Garcon Point Bridge (SR-281).

Around Orlando, the Central Florida Expressway Authority (CFX) runs SR-408, SR-414, SR-451, SR-453, SR-538, SR-551 and the rest of SR-417, SR-429 and SR-528. The sheet also covers Alligator Alley (I-75), the Sunshine Skyway (I-275), the Pinellas Bayway and the Mid-Bay Bridge. On October 16, 2026, Permigo found no oversize permit on CFX’s permitting page or the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority’s site.

Every listed point, by width

The rest of this guide is FDOT’s list as reference. 31 points are capped at 13 feet or less. One ramp, SR-429 ramps at New Independence Pkwy, sits in FDOT’s 14-foot list but is marked “(12' width)”; plan for 12 feet.

The other 63 are capped at 14 or 15 feet, listed by road with the Turnpike first.

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