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81 Commercial and Heavy Vehicles 339.07 <br />339.06 VEHICLES TRANSPORTING EXPLOSIVES. <br />Any person operating any vehicle transporting explosives upon . a street or highway <br />shall at all times comply with the following requirements: <br />(a) Such vehicle shall be marked or placarded on each side and on the rear with <br />the word "EXPLOSIVES" in letters not less than eight inches high, or there <br />shall be displayed on the rear of such vehicle a red flag not less than twenty- <br />four inches square marked with the word "DANGER" in white letters six <br />inches high, or shall be marked or placarded in accordance with Section <br />177.823 of the United States Department of Transportation Regulations. <br />(b) Such vehicle shall be equipped with not less than two fire extinguishers, <br />filled and ready for immediate use, and placed at convenient points on such <br />vehicle. (ORC 4513.29) <br />339.07 TOWING REQUIREMENTS. <br />(a) When one vehicle is towing another vehicle, the drawbar or other connection <br />shall be of sufficient strength to pull all weight towed thereby, and such drawbar or <br />other connection shall not exceed fifteen feet from one vehicle to the other, except <br />the connection between any two vehicles transporting poles, pipe, machinery or other <br />objects of structural nature which cannot readily be dismembered. <br />(b) When one vehicle is towing another and the connection consists only of a <br />chain, rope or cable, there shall be displayed upon such connection a white flag or <br />cloth not less than twelve inches square. <br />(c) In addition to such drawbar or other connection, each trailer and each <br />semitrailer which is not connected to a commercial tractor by means of a fifth wheel <br />shall be coupled with stay chains or cables to the vehicle by which it is being drawn. <br />The chains or cables shall be of sufficient size and strength to prevent the towed <br />vehicle's parting from the drawing vehicle in case the drawbar or other connection <br />should break or become disengaged. In case of a loaded pole trailer, the connecting <br />pole to the drawing vehicle shall be coupled to the drawing vehicle with stay chains <br />or cables of sufficient size and strength to prevent the towed vehicle's parting from <br />the drawing vehicle. <br />(d) Every trailer or semitrailer, except pole and cable trailers and pole and <br />cable dollies operated by a public utility, as defined in Ohio R.C. 5727.01, shall be <br />equipped with a coupling device which shall be so designed and constructed that the <br />trailer will follow substantially in the path of the vehicle drawing it, without whipping <br />or swerving from side to side. Vehicles used to transport agricultural produce or <br />agricultural production materials between a local place of storage and supply and <br />the farm, when drawn or towed on a street ~or highway at a speed of twenty-five <br />miles per hour or less, and vehicles designed and used exclusively to transport a <br />boat between a place of storage and a marina, or in and around a marina, when <br />drawn or towed on a street or highway for a distance of no more than ten miles <br />and at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less shall have a drawbar or other <br />connection, including the hitch mounted on the towing vehicle, which shall be of <br />sufficient strength to pull all the weight towed thereby. Only one such vehicle used <br />to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials as provided in <br />this section may be towed or drawn at one time unless the towing vehicle is an <br />agricultural tractor. <br />(ORC 4513.32) <br />1993 Replacement <br />