Published with permission from the Pennsylvania Turnpike. From the PA Turnpike's The Road Ahead: Trucker Edition (May 2026). Sign up to see past editions and receive future editions of The Road Ahead: Trucker Edition here. 

Good news for truck drivers entering the Keystone State – roughly 30 new parking spots for truckers to stop and get their mandatory rest time are coming to the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

“This is a chance to provide some more much-needed places for truckers to park on our system,” said Senior Engineer Project Manager Steve Brousse, who is heading up the project.

Those 30 spots are planned for the Gateway Interchange at the Ohio line.

The PA Turnpike is planning on adding 30 new parking places for truckers at the Gateway Interchange. This comes on top of the 150 additional spots added at several service plazas over the last few years.

As Open Road Tolling expands across the PA Turnpike, creating a free-flowing, cashless system, the old toll plazas will no longer be needed and are being demolished to create more open interchanges. Some create the potential for other uses.

Brousse explained the Gateway Interchange is a little different and is the ideal place to add a few more spots. The interchange there is already bypassing the old toll plaza, which already has some of the existing infrastructure like restrooms. The site also has a long enough ramp into and out of the bypassed toll plaza – where the new parking spots will be added – so that trucks can safely pull in and pull back out and get up to speed.

The design phase is about 75% complete and is expected to wrap up in early 2027 with construction starting as soon as late 2027 or early 2028.

Most PA Turnpike truck parking is located at service plazas, said Senior Engineer Project Manager Matt Blough, who is working with Brousse on the project. But with a growing number of warehouses in Pennsylvania and an increasing amount of truck traffic on the PA Turnpike, finding safe and convenient parking for truckers is crucial.

These additional spots come on top of about 150 new truck parking spots added over the last few years at the Lawn, Highspire, and Sideling Hill service plazas. More are in the works, too. PA Turnpike officials announced last year they are evaluating opportunities to add 600 spaces across the system, and at the same time, PennDOT officials are adding 1,202 truck-parking spaces at 133 locations statewide by the end of the year.

You can find availability on PennDOT highways and on the PA Turnpike on the 511PA website and app.