Can I own one here
Owning one in Stoddard County.
On your own land
The three statutes govern highways and streams. They do not reach private land, where Missouri sets no registration for a utility vehicle or a recreational off-highway vehicle, and the Department of Revenue titles and registers only ATVs.
On the farm
RSMo 304.013(1)(2), 304.032(1)(2) and 304.033(1)(2) let an ATV, a utility vehicle and a recreational off-highway vehicle use a highway for agricultural purposes or industrial on-premises purposes. An ATV and a utility vehicle do so between sunrise and sunset, and a utility vehicle may also run at night with proper lighting. The driver needs a valid licence and a utility vehicle stays under 45 mph, 304.032(3). Whether a kei truck counts as one of those vehicles is the open question.
A 25 year truck on the road
Open to road use. Missouri law writes a title class, the Non-USA-Std motor vehicle, for a vehicle not originally made to US safety or emissions standards. The Department of Revenue titles and registers an import declared under Box 1 of Form HS-7, the federal 25 year lane, after a Highway Patrol examination.
A newer governed truck
Unclear. Turns on the HS-7 box the importer declares. Missouri refuses Boxes 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13. NHTSA has called Box 8 the declaration for a vehicle not manufactured primarily for use on the public roads, and Missouri's page neither refuses Box 8 nor lists papers for it.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Stoddard County.
Some routes. Dexter has let permitted UTVs on most city streets since 1 February 2022 and keeps ATVs off, and no act of Stoddard County for its county roads was found.
In town Some
- Some Dexter. UTVs of 50 to 67 inches wide and 2,000 pounds or less may use city streets with a city permit, except One Mile Road, Brown Pilot Lane, Central Drive and Grant Street between Park Lane and Two Mile Road, and never a state or federal highway except to cross where it is posted 45 mph or less. The speed is the posted limit or 30 mph, whichever is less, sunrise to sunset unless the vehicle has brake lights and headlights, and the permit holder is at least eighteen and licensed. ATVs and golf carts are barred from streets and highways in Dexter. The ordinance text was read as a newspaper printed it, and its number is garbled in the print. Dexter ordinance passed 3 January 2022 by 4 votes to 1, effective 1 February 2022, read 28 October 2026
County roads To confirm
No act of Stoddard County opening or closing its county roads was found, and the county's own code was not read.
State highways Crossings only
- Dexter allows a UTV to cross a state or federal highway only where it is posted 45 mph or less, and bars travel along it, so Business 60 is closed. Dexter ordinance passed 3 January 2022, effective 1 February 2022, read 28 October 2026
Getting one here
From Japan to Stoddard County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 700 road miles.
- The JAXPORT, Jacksonville Port Authority, about 800 road miles.
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 1,900 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
Stoddard County, counted.
2 active surface mines and quarries work Stoddard County's ground. Farms in Stoddard County hold 10,422 acres of woodland. Stoddard County has 637 farms and 160 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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