Drivers have been alert to avoid ladders falling from a van which was being driven in the Orwell Bridge area.
Police have a rolling road-block in action on the road in the Ipswich-bound direction after being called at 2.45pm.
A spokeswoman said she believed no-one had been hurt and the ladders were being recovered.
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