Big load coming through: Police will escort 27-foot-wide load on US 62 and Interstate 64 sometime Wednesday

Motorcade route is marked in blue. Disregard the times and two possible alternate routes determined by Google Maps.

Police will escort a huge piece of industrial cooling equipment, 27 feet wide, through the Midway area Wednesday on its way from Northern Kentucky to Tennessee. Lanes and roads will be blocked in the Georgetown area before the load enters Interstate 64 in southern Scott County.

The tractor-trailer load is scheduled to leave the Interstate 75/71 rest area in Northern Kentucky at 9 a.m. and head south on I-75 to US 62 at Exit 126. It will take the Georgetown bypass and US 62, then enter westbound I-64 at Exit 69. After passing through Midway on I-64, it will take Exit 53 at Frankfort to US 127, then follow the Bluegrass Parkway and I-65 to Tennessee.

The state Transportation Cabinet said in a news release that timing of road and lane blockages is not yet available but it will provide updates "as often as possible to help motorists avoid traffic delays."

"The motorcade will occupy the entire width of the route or all lanes in its direction of travel," so police will block traffic on US 62, US 460, I-64, US 127 and the parkway, the cabinet said. "On I-75 and I-65, which have three lanes in each direction, the load will span the center and right lanes as well as part of the shoulder."

The escort for Derenz Transport of Kiel, Wis., will be provided by the Kentucky State Police’s Division of Commercial Vehicle Enforcement, in cooperation with local law-enforcement agencies, the cabinet said. Two marked vehicles will travel in front of the load and two will travel behind.

The news release concluded, "All overweight/over-dimensional travel is subject to change depending on weather conditions, emergencies and factors beyond the control of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet or Kentucky State Police."