According to my husband's commercial driving road atlas, there are no clearance issues for any highway mentioned. Interstate highways were built for commercial transportation, whose trucks are "long and tall". There is a rest area near Whytheville on I-81 that is listed as "NO TRUCKS", but they will be signed. Exit 72 in Whytheville has a number of truck stops as well as Comfort Suites, Fairfield Inn, and Hampton Inn. The Day's Inn mentioned above is at exit 73 and appears to be near a lot of good restaurants, including the Cracker Barrel that we ate at, back in 2012.

As for Meridian, MS, there's a military base there, so there are a number of lodging choices, most of them with "Truck parking".



Donna