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Mini trucks in Forrest County, Mississippi
Kei trucks in Mississippi, titled through the county tax collector.
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Can I own one here
Owning one in Forrest County.
On your own land
On a farm, a woodlot or any private land off the public road a kei truck needs no plate, no registration and no off-road certificate. The road privilege tax reaches vehicles that carry people or property upon a public highway, and the off-road vehicle rules of 63-31-3(1) reach only public property.
On the farm
No farm rule puts a kei truck on a public road without a plate. The privilege tax spares only trailers and farm tractors that use the highway solely to haul the producer's own farm products to the gin or market, or fertilizer and feed to the farm, at 8,000 pounds gross or less. A farm tractor is a motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry. An implement of husbandry is designed and adapted exclusively for farm work. A kei truck is neither.
A 25 year truck on the road
Road use unclear, to confirm. Mississippi law is silent on kei trucks. The county tax collector titles an imported vehicle on its foreign papers and federal entry forms. The Department of Revenue's checklist sets no HS-7 box limit and no federal label condition. Its Motor Vehicle Services decides a kei truck it has not seen before.
A newer governed truck
Private land only. None found for the truck as delivered. Mississippi titles ATVs and UTVs made or first sold after 1 July 2025, and the all-terrain vehicle definition quoted in 2026 SB 2265 travels on nonhighway tires.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Forrest County.
To confirm. Hattiesburg opens city streets posted 30 mph or less to registered golf carts and low-speed vehicles, read here only in the unsigned draft of Ordinance No. 3316, and Forrest County cannot open its own roads. A governed kei truck counts only as a low-speed vehicle, which takes a top speed under 25 mph and the federal equipment, as the city judges it.
In town Some
- Some Hattiesburg. Registered golf carts and low-speed vehicles on city streets posted 30 mph or less, never on an MDOT highway or on the streets the Traffic Committee closes, among them Hardy Street, Broadway Drive, Lincoln Road and Old Highway 11. They cross closed streets only by the shortest way at a signal or a designated stop sign. Registration needs a VIN or serial number, which a kei truck's frame number can answer. The state's low-speed vehicle is a four-wheeled electric or gasoline vehicle with a top speed over 20 and under 25 mph and the equipment of 49 CFR 571.500, so a truck governed at exactly 25 mph sits on the ceiling the words leave out, and one governed a little lower fits them if the city accepts its lamps, mirrors, belts, glass and frame number as that equipment. Ordinance No. 3316, adopted 16 August 2022 and in effect from 15 September 2022 as the city's page states, read only in the unsigned 16 August draft the city links as the ordinance., read 28 October 2026
County roads Closed
No county road is open to golf carts, low-speed vehicles or off-road vehicles. Mississippi gives the power to open streets to golf carts and low-speed vehicles to municipalities alone, 63-32-3(1), and authorizes no off-road vehicle on any public road, 63-31-3(6). Bills to give boards of supervisors the power died in 2022 (HB 1004) and 2025 (HB 265), and every bill since 2022 to tag side by sides for county roads died, the last SB 2265 and SB 2628 on 3 February 2026. No local and private act for this county was found in the Legislature's lists of measures from 2008 to 2026. Miss. Code 63-32-3(1) and 63-31-3(6). No local and private act for the county found., read 28 October 2026
State highways Crossings only
- Hattiesburg: no golf cart or low-speed vehicle on an MDOT highway, crossing closed streets only by the shortest way at a signal or a designated stop sign. Hattiesburg Ordinance No. 3316, Section 3, unsigned draft, read 28 October 2026
Getting one here
From Japan to Forrest County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The JAXPORT, Jacksonville Port Authority, about 600 road miles.
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 600 road miles.
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 2,000 road miles.
How to import a mini truck, step by step.
A newer off road truck never lands in California. It comes in through Tacoma or by way of Houston.
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
Forrest County, counted.
4 active surface mines and quarries work Forrest County's ground. Forrest County has 302 farms and 128 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Farms in Forrest County hold 14,118 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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