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47 Motor and Common Carriers 341.10 (d) All brakes with which motor vehicles are equipped shall be operative at all times. Means may be used for reducing the braking effort on the front wheels of any truck or tractor, provided that no such means shall be capable of making the front wheel brakes entirely inoperative. (e) All brake tubing and brake hose shall be adequate in material and construction to insure proper continued functioning; sufficiently long and flexible to acoommodate without damage all normal motions of the parts to which they are attached; and suitably secured and protected against chafing or other mechanical injury: (fj All connections for compressed air, vacuum or hydraulic braking systems shall be adequate in material and construction to insure proper continued functioning; and shall be so designed, constructed, and installed as to insure, when properly connected, an attachment free of leaks, conatric•tiona, or other defects. Suitable provision shall be made in every detachable connection to afford reasonable assurance against accidental disconnection. (Ord. 892. Passed 5-15-51. ) 341.08 TRAILER COUPLING DEVICE. Every trailer shall be equipped with a coupling device which shall be so designed and constructed that the trailer will follow substantially in the path of the vehicle drawing it without whipping or swerving from aide to side. In addition, every such full trailer shall be coupled with stay chains or cables to the vehicle by which it is being drawn, which '~` chains or cables shall be of sufficient size and strength to prevent parting from the drawing ~` vehicle should the regular coupling break or become otherwise disengaged. (Ord. 892. Passed 5-15-51. ) 341.09 HOURS OF SERVICE. No employee of a motor carrier, including owner-drivers, may drive or operate a motor vehicle after being on duty fourteen consecutive hours until he shall have had eight consecutive hours off duty, no part of which relief period shall be required to be spent in or upon a motor vehicle. No such driver or helper who has been on duty for fourteen hours in the aggregate in any twenty-four hour period, shall be required or knowingly permitted in the State of Ohio to continue or again go on duty until he shall have had at least eight consecutive hours off duty, no part of which relief period shall be required to be spent in or upon a motor vehicle. (Ord. 892. Passed 5-15-51.) 341.10 DRIVER'S LOG. Each motor carrier, its drivers and employees, including owner-drivers and drivers who are the holders of a certificate or permit, who operates a motor vehicle engaged in the transportation of property for hire over the highways of this State shall keep a driver's log in duplicate. Entries in such driver's log shall be made by the driver and shall show the place of origin and destination of the trip, the time of reporting for duty and the time off duty. This rule shall not apply to drivers engaged in transportation of passengers. (Ord. 892. Passed 5-15-51. )