Can I own one here
Owning one in Wheeler 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
Closed to road use. Oregon does not register kei trucks for the road. The DMV says kei class vehicles cannot be titled or registered because they were not built for US highways. The 2025 and 2026 bills to change that ended in committee.
A newer governed truck
Off highway vehicle. The DMV titles ATVs. A governed road-built truck falls in Oregon's Class II ATV definition when operated off highway, because Class IV requires a vehicle originally manufactured for off-road use only.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Wheeler County.
To confirm. No county road or town street in Wheeler County was found open to ATVs, so a kei truck there works private land and takes the highway only between farm or ranch headquarters, fields and pastures at 20 mph or less.
In town To confirm
- To confirm Fossil. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- To confirm Mitchell. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- To confirm Spray. The town's code was not read in this pass.
County roads To confirm
No county ordinance or order opening county roads to ATVs turned up in the State Parks list of counties with ATV roads, a statewide search or a search by county name. The county code and board orders were not read one by one.
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Wheeler County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Tacoma, The Northwest Seaport Alliance South Harbor, about 250 road miles.
- The Port of Seattle, The Northwest Seaport Alliance North Harbor, about 250 road miles.
- The Port of Everett, about 300 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
Wheeler County, counted.
Farms in Wheeler County hold 67,955 acres of woodland. Wheeler County has 153 farms and 78 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. 100 percent of Wheeler County's people live outside urban areas.
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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