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339.03 TRAFFIC CODE 339.03 MAXIMUM WIDTH, HEIGHT AND LENGTH. No vehicle shall be operated upon the public streets, bridges and culverts within the Municipality, whose width is greater than ninety-six inches, including the load, except motor vehicles of the passenger bus type, operated exclusively within the Municipality, whose width shall not exceed one hundred four inches, and except traction engines whose width shall not exceed one hundred thirty-two inches. No vehicle unladen or with load of a greater height than thirteen feet six inches shall be operated on such streets, bridges and culverts, or of a greater length than thirty-five feet, except the semitrailer of a com- mercial tractor and semitrailer combination which may have a length not to exceed forty feet, also except motor vehicles of the passenger bus type with three or more axles whose length shall not exceed forty feet and except motor vehicles of the passenger bus type, operated exclusively within the Municipality, whose length shall not exceed forty-eight feet. No commercial tractor and semitrailer shall be operated in combination of a greater length than fifty feet, including load, and no other combination of vehicles coupled together. shall be so operated whose total length, including load, shall be greater than sixty feet. In special cases vehicles whose dimensions exceed those prescribed by this section may operate in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by tho Ohio Director of Highways. This section does not apply to fire engines, fire trucks, or other vehicles or apparatus belonging to any municipal corporation or to the volunteer fire department of any municipal corporation or salvage company organized under the laws of this State or used by such department or company in the discharge of its functions. This section does not apply to vehicles and pole trailers used in the transportation of wooden and metal poles, nor to the transportation of pipes or well-drilling equipment, nor to farm machinery and equipment. (ORC 557? . 05) 339.04 OBLIGATION TO USE STATE OR FEDERAL ROUTES. (a) A11 streets and highways leading into the Municipality shall be properly posted warning operators of vehicles used for the transportation of goods or property and exceed- ing weight limits prescribed by this chapter that they must follow State or Federal routes, temporary or permanent. (b) The operator of a vehicle exceeding such weight limits,upon entering the Munici- pality on a street other than a State or Federal route, shall proceed immediately by the shortest way possible, to the nearest State or Federal route leading in the direction in which such vehicle is proceeding, except as otherwise provided in Section 339.02. 339.05 WHEEL PROTECTORS. No person shall drive or operate, or cause to be driven or operated, any commercial car, trailer, or semitrailer, used for the transportation of goods or property, the gross weight of which, with Ioad, exceeds three tons, upon the streets, bridges and culverts within this Municipality unless such vehicle is equipped with suitable metal protectors or subatanttal flexible flaps on the rearmost wheels of such vehicle or combination of vehicles to prevent, as far as practicable, the wheels from throwing dirt, water, or other materials on the windshields of following vehicles.. Such protectors or flaps shall have a ground clearance of not more than one fifth of the distance from the center of the rearmost axle