FLORIDA TURNPIKE FREQUENCIES

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
FREQ.     PL/DCS  USE
453.575   192.8   Road Rangers/Wreckers North
453.625   192.8   Road Rangers/Wreckers South
453.675   173.8   Roadway Incident North
453.725   173.8   Roadway Incident South

601B - Snapper Creek Service Plaza (Milepost 19 on HEFT)
Wreckers: Excalibur Towing
Road Rangers: Romeo 1 and 2

Hollywood Exit Toll Plaza
Road Rangers: Romeo 3 and 4

612B - Pompano Beach Service Plaza (Milepost 65)
Wreckers/Service Trucks: Papa 1-6
Road Rangers: Romeo 5 and 6

624B - West Palm Beach Service Plaza (Milepost 94)
Wreckers/Service Trucks: Lima 1-5
Road Rangers: Romeo 7 and 8

635B - Fort Pierce Service Plaza (Milepost 144)
Wreckers/Service Trucks: Foxtrot 1-3
Road Rangers: Romeo 9 and 10

647B is Fort Drum Service Plaza (Milepost 184)
Wreckers/Service Trucks: Delta 1-3

658B is Canoe Creek Service Plaza (Milepost 229)
Wreckers/Service Trucks: Charlie 1-3
Road Rangers: Romeo 11

669B is Turkey Lake Service Plaza (Milepost 263)
Wreckers: Tango 1 & 2
Road Rangers: Romeo 12 and 13

670B is Okahumpka Service Plaza (Milepost 299)
Wreckers: Oscar 1 & 2
Road Rangers: Romeo 14

Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority
Turkey Lake Service Plaza
Road Rangers: OR 3, OR 4, OR 6, OR 7 & OR 8 (No Turnpike Radios)

University Toll Plaza - S.R. 417
Road Rangers: OR 1, OR 2, & OR 5 

OR 1: 417 North (MP 33 - 54)
OR 2: 417 South (MP 0 - 33)
OR 3: 528 (MP 0 - 31)
OR 4: 429 (MP 0 -31)
OR 5: 408 East (MP 10 - 24)
OR 6: 408 West (MP 0 - 10)
OR 7: Spare (Primary)
OR 8: Spare (Emergency)

NOTES
Designations 601B, 612B, 624B, 635B, 647B, 658B, 669B, & 670B are
the service station base radio call numbers.

Romeo 1-8 are dispatched by the Pompano Traffic Management Center
Romeo 9-15 are dispatched by the Orlando Traffic Management Center (Turkey Lake).
Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority Road Rangers notify the Orlando TMC of incidents occuring on Turnpike owned parts of the expressway system

Turnpike Road Rangers are available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week and are known as the State Farm Safety Patrol.

As of early fall 2007, the Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority Road Rangers will patrol from 6am to 8pm 7 days a week.

Romeo 15 is a conventional wrecker that exclusively patrols the construction zone 
on the Turnpike between SR 528 (milepost 254) to Interstate 4 (milepost 259) seven 
days a week between the hours of 6am-10am and again 4pm-8pm. Romeo 15 does have radio 
communication and is stationed out of the Turkey Lake Service Plaza.
Road Ranger duties including pulling accidents and disabled vehicles from the travel 
lane inside the construction walls of the that widening project

The Road Rangers are not changing radio to the 800 MHz State of Florida systems.
They will be remaining on the UHF system for awaile. 

As for 601B in Snapper Creek, they do dispatch non-Turnpike wreckers from a company called 
Excalbiur Towing, and they handle the entire HEFT 0-47. However they do not have Road Ranger
radios since they are not Turnpike wreckers, but you will hear 601B and FHP refer to their 
wreckers as "Sierra 1-12".



The Florida Turnpike is comprised of the following:
Turnpike Mainline - SR 91 (265 miles)
Polk Parkway - SR 589 (25 miles)
Suncoast Parkway - SR 589 (42 miles)
Veteran Expressway - SR 589 (15 miles)
Seminole Expressway - SR 417 (19 miles)
Beeline Expressway - SR 528 (8 miles between the turnpike and Orlando only)
Sawgrass Expressway - SR 869 (23 miles)
Southern Connector - SR 417 (6 miles extension between the turnpike and SR 417 only)
Homestead Extension - (47 miles)
Western Beltway - SR 429

The Roadway Incident channels are rarely used.

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