Can I own one here
Owning one in Tooele 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. Utah registers kei class trucks as novel vehicles and a novel vehicle equipped to the street-legal standard may run on Utah roads at up to 50 miles per hour, never on an interstate.
A newer governed truck
Off highway vehicle. Registered as a novel vehicle, which Utah governs under its off-highway vehicle chapter. The division may issue a title.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Tooele County.
To confirm. Tooele County's own code was not found, and Grantsville lets licensed drivers ride from home to trails but keeps OHVs off SR 138 and SR 112 except at four crossings.
In town Some
- To confirm Erda. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- Some Grantsville. A licensed driver may use city streets only to travel from home to designated trails or recreation areas. SR 138 and SR 112 are closed to OHVs and may be crossed only at West Street, Cooley Street, Center Street and Hale Street. OHVs keep to 20 mph and stay off the streets from an hour after sunset to sunrise, except at city events and from 1 August to 31 December. Grantsville City Code Chapter 17-4, Ordinance 2024-17 of 19 June 2024 and Ordinance 2025-21 of 2 April 2025, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm Lake Point. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- To confirm Rush Valley. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- Closed Stockton. The town's code on American Legal was walked chapter by chapter through its traffic, public safety and public ways titles and no chapter or section heading concerns OHVs, so no street is designated and 41-22-10.5(5) keeps streets closed to them. A rule under a general heading could have been missed. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm Tooele. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- To confirm Vernon. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- To confirm Wendover. The town's code was not read in this pass.
County roads To confirm
The Tooele County code was not found online in this pass, on Municode, American Legal, Municipal Code Online, Code Publishing or eCode360, so whether it opens county roads to OHVs is unknown.
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Tooele County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Oakland, about 700 road miles.
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 700 road miles.
- The Port of Tacoma, The Northwest Seaport Alliance South Harbor, about 800 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
Tooele County, counted.
14 active surface mines and quarries work Tooele County's ground. Tooele County has 558 farms and 273 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Tooele County averages 43 inches of snow a year.
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.
News for Utah Utah adds gray market title brands on 1 January 2027
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