Can I own one here
Owning one in Clay County.
On your own land, yes
Owning a kei truck and working it on a ranch, a farm, a mine or private property does not depend on a road title. Some states still ask for a title or an off road registration.
A 25 year truck on the road
Road use with limits. In Minnesota a mini truck drives public roads only under a permit from a county, city or town and only on the roads that government designates.
A newer governed truck
Unclear. None. The mini truck definition reaches any kei truck of 660 cc or less that was not built to federal safety standards, governed or not.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Clay County.
Towns only. Barnesville opens its streets to mini trucks, golf carts, UTVs and ATVs with a three year city permit and a licensed, insured driver, so a kei truck has Barnesville's streets here, while no Clay County ordinance was found and Moorhead and the other towns were not read.
In town Some
- Open Barnesville. Golf carts, neighborhood electric vehicles, UTVs, ATVs and mini trucks with a city permit of three years on city streets only, never state or federal highways except to cross at designated intersections. A mini truck permit needs a valid Minnesota driver's licence. Barnesville City Code 5-0212 as amended by Ordinance 2024-11, second reading 9 December 2024, published 16 December 2024, read 28 October 2026
County roads To confirm
No county ordinance under 169.045 naming mini trucks was found for Clay County, so no county road is known to be open to a mini truck. Under state law alone a class 2 ATV, or a class 1 ATV with a steering wheel, seat belts and a roll-over structure, may ride the right shoulder or the extreme right of a county state-aid or county highway unless the county restricts it after a public hearing, 84.928 subd. 1(c) and (d). In the agricultural zone, south and west of Trunk Highways 10, 23 and 95, no ATV may use that right-of-way from 1 April to 1 August except to and from farm work, 84.928 subd. 1(h). Whether Clay County has restricted or widened that by ordinance was not read. No county act read. Minn. Stat. 84.928 subd. 1 and 169.045 apply., read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Clay County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Everett, about 1,400 road miles.
- The Port of Seattle, The Northwest Seaport Alliance North Harbor, about 1,500 road miles.
- The Port of Tacoma, The Northwest Seaport Alliance South Harbor, about 1,500 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
Clay County, counted.
Clay County averages 47 inches of snow a year. Farms in Clay County hold 7,267 acres of woodland. Clay County has 655 farms and 118 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture.
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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