Can I own one here
Owning one in Iowa County.
On your own land
On a farm or private land closed to public traffic a kei truck needs no registration in Wisconsin, with the owner's consent.
On the farm
No Wisconsin farm rule names a kei truck. An implement of husbandry under 340.01(24) must be manufactured, designed or reconstructed for farm work and used only for it. Whether a kei truck can qualify by reconstruction is not settled.
To confirm.
A 25 year truck on the road
Road use with limits, to confirm. Wisconsin law names Kei class vehicles, refuses them regular plates and counts them as off-road utility vehicles that may never use a highway posted over 35 mph. The statute's words leave collector plates open to an eligible special interest vehicle, and WisDOT decides whether a kei truck qualifies.
A newer governed truck
Private land only. A Kei class vehicle may be titled. A newer truck is too young for collector plates, so no registration is open.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Iowa County.
Roads open. Iowa County opens its county trunk highways to registered ATVs and UTVs at 30 mph or less outside 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. except stretches near the main highways, while Dodgeville opens every city street.
In town Some
- Open Dodgeville. Every city maintained street unless signed closed, plus WIS 23 from County YZ to Military Ridge Road, WIS 191 from Union Street to the east limits and stretches of County B, CH and YZ inside the city under 23.33(11)(am)4. UTVs may use every street ATVs may use. City of Dodgeville Ordinance 2022-02, adopted 24 May 2022, recreating Municipal Code 7.145, read 28 October 2026
County roads Open
All Iowa County trunk highways except some thirty nine named closed stretches, most of them the approaches to US 18/151, US 14, WIS 23, 39, 80, 130 and 133 and the busy run of County K. Ordinance 600.18B, Iowa County All-Terrain and Utility-Terrain Vehicle Route Ordinance, dated 16 January 2024, read 28 October 2026
State highways Segments open
- WIS 23 from County YZ to Military Ridge Road and WIS 191 from Union Street to the east city limits, inside Dodgeville City of Dodgeville Ordinance 2022-02 under 23.33(11)(am)4., read 28 October 2026
Getting one here
From Japan to Iowa County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 1,100 road miles.
- The JAXPORT, Jacksonville Port Authority, about 1,200 road miles.
- The Port of Everett, about 1,900 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
Iowa County, counted.
Iowa County has 1,534 farms and 635 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Farms in Iowa County hold 77,849 acres of woodland. Iowa County averages 41 inches of snow a year.
Areas
The areas Iowa County is part of.
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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