COLUMBUS – After sitting for a week, the second of nearly two dozen “super loads” due to make their way from the Ohio River to central Ohio gets underway in southern Franklin County again on Saturday.
The city of Columbus agreed to allow the load to move through its jurisdiction on Saturday, meaning the load can travel to Hebron in one day without impacting roads on Sunday or Monday, Ohio Department of Transportation officials said.
The massive 200-foot-long, 390,000-pound truckload will complete its journey from a barge near Manchester in Adams County to a plastics recycling facility in Hebron, where it will deliver a combustion chamber.
Route Information for Saturday, March 23
The convoy is expected to depart Rickenbacker around 7:00 a.m. The remainder of the route:
- North on Rickenbacker Parkway North to Alum Creek Drive
- North on Alum Creek Drive to Rohr Road
- East on Rohr Road to Commerce Center Drive
- North on Commerce Center Drive to Green Pointe Drive South
- East on Green Point Drive South to Saltzgaber Road
- South on Saltzgaber Road to State Route 317
- North in the southbound lanes on State Route 317 past Groveport to Bixby Road East
- East on Bixby Road to U.S. Route 33
- East in the Westbound lanes of U.S. Route 33 to the Gender Road southbound to U.S. Route 33 westbound ramp in Canal Winchester
- Travel the wrong way on the Gender Road southbound to U.S. Route 33 westbound ramp
- Take State Route 674/Gender Road North to Brice Road
- Brice Road north to the intersection with Tussing Road/State Route 204 in Columbus
- East on Tussing Road/State Route 204 East to State Route 310
- North on State Route 310 to U.S. Route 40 in Etna
- East on U.S. Route 40 to State Route 79 in Hebron
- Travel the wrong way on the State Route 79 southbound off ramp to U.S. Route 40
- North in the southbound lanes on State Route 79 to local roads