OPP have charged a truck driver for driving the wrong way on Highway 401 early Tuesday morning.

Police say around 12:30 a.m., the driver entered the Tecumseh roundabout in the wrong direction and found himself travelling east in the westbound lanes.

The 401 was closed for close to an hour while the tractor trailer was safely removed from the highway.

Leonard Blaylock, 22, from Philadelphia has been charged.