Can I own one here
Owning one in Oxford County.
On your own land
A kei truck in Maine is an off-road vehicle that cannot be registered or titled, and it works on land its owner owns or leases or on another's land with permission, never on a public way.
On the farm
No farm rule puts a kei truck on a Maine road. The special registration permit of 29-A 501(8), which lets an ATV travel a road for farm purposes between farm lots, is a Title 29-A registration that 354 forbids for an off-road vehicle.
A 25 year truck on the road
Closed to road use. Maine classes a mini truck as an off-road vehicle, and an off-road vehicle cannot be registered or used on a public way.
A newer governed truck
Private land only. None. Off-road vehicles are exempt from Maine title under 29-A MRSA 652(17).
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Oxford County.
To confirm. Oxford County towns decide ATV access road by road, Peru opening one connector and Canton refusing one by press reports, but a kei truck is not an ATV in Maine, so it works private land and stays off every public way.
In town To confirm
- To confirm Rumford. The town's code of ordinances, revised 11 June 2019, has no ATV access route chapter, only an ATV agent fee fund, so any route rests on a select board vote. Temporary access on several streets until the board's first November meeting was reported for a recent June and not read. Code of Ordinances revised 11 June 2019, Chapter 32, read 28 October 2026
- Some Peru. The select board gave the club conditional permission to use the road from Main Street to the Woodstock line, and later said Main Street itself is not an access route, as reported.
- Closed Canton. The select board voted 4 to 0 against an access route on Staples Hill Road, as reported with no date.
- To confirm Paris. The selectmen rescinded ATV access on Parsons Road after complaints, as reported.
County roads To confirm
Maine has no county road system. County commissioners designate ATV access routes only on public ways in the county's unorganized territory, 13157-A(6)(H). No county act was found.
State highways To confirm
- A club applied to MaineDOT for a segment of Route 121 in Oxford after the town's approval, as reported. MaineDOT's decision was not found.
Getting one here
From Japan to Oxford County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 1,200 road miles.
- The JAXPORT, Jacksonville Port Authority, about 1,400 road miles.
- The Port of Everett, about 2,900 road miles.
How to import a mini truck, step by step.
Trucks travel in containers, one to a 20 foot box with room for parts or three to a 40 foot box.
Road miles are an estimate, the straight line times 1.2.
The ground
Oxford County, counted.
Oxford County averages 96 inches of snow a year. Oxford County grows 475 acres of orchards and vineyards. Farms in Oxford County hold 56,530 acres of woodland.
Importing a kei truck
The essentials, in short.
A truck under 25 can come in only as governed off road equipment, and only if its engine family held an EPA nonroad certificate for that model year. No kei engine family was certified for mini trucks before model year 2010, so a truck built after 31 October 2001 and before model year 2010 has no federal door until its 25th birthday.
Two lanes
A road truck must be 25 years old by its own build date. A newer truck comes in only as governed off road equipment with a certified engine.
The 25 percent duty
Every kei truck pays the 25 percent truck duty at the port, whatever its age.
The paperwork
The customs entry and the two federal declarations, DOT Form HS-7 and EPA Form 3520-1, travel with the truck to your title office.
The title
Keep every stamped paper with the truck. Your state title office asks to see them.
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