Can I own one here
Owning one in Lincoln 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. Wyoming registers a mini truck as a multipurpose vehicle. A registered multipurpose vehicle may use any public street or highway except an interstate.
A newer governed truck
Low speed vehicle. Titled as a multipurpose vehicle at the county clerk. The class reaches any motor vehicle on four wheels of 300 to under 3,000 pounds with an upright seat at least 24 inches high and an identifying number.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Lincoln County.
To confirm. Lincoln County is reported to have enrolled county roads and Kemmerer opens the streets its council designates. A plated multipurpose vehicle, which is what Wyoming makes a kei truck, may use every street and highway in the county, which has no interstate.
In town Some
- Some Kemmerer. ORVs may use the streets, roads and travel routes the city council has designated a Wyoming ORV trail together with State Parks, with the state ORV decal, a driver's licence and proof of insurance, lamps after dark and a brake. Which streets are designated was not read. Ordinance 2021-866, enacting Kemmerer City Code 13-70 through 13-72. First reading 14 June 2021, second reading 28 June 2021, adopted on third reading 12 July 2021. Read in the Kemmerer Gazette legal notice of 3 August 2021., read 28 October 2026
- Some La Barge. A 2021 report of the Southwest Wyoming Off-road Trails group says La Barge adopted an ordinance allowing off-road vehicles on its streets. The ordinance was not found. reported, ordinance not found, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm Afton. The local code and council record were not read in this pass, and no ordinance opening its streets to ORV decal machines turned up in the news, legal notices or council records searched.
- To confirm Thayne. The local code and council record were not read in this pass, and no ordinance opening its streets to ORV decal machines turned up in the news, legal notices or council records searched.
- To confirm Alpine. The local code and council record were not read in this pass, and no ordinance opening its streets to ORV decal machines turned up in the news, legal notices or council records searched.
- To confirm Star Valley Ranch. The local code and council record were not read in this pass, and no ordinance opening its streets to ORV decal machines turned up in the news, legal notices or council records searched.
- To confirm Diamondville. The local code and council record were not read in this pass, and no ordinance opening its streets to ORV decal machines turned up in the news, legal notices or council records searched.
County roads Some
A 2021 report and a June 2025 report both list Lincoln County among the counties that enrolled county roads in the state ORV program. No Lincoln County resolution, memorandum of understanding or list of enrolled roads was found, and the commission records that the search returned carry no ORV item. reported, not read, read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Lincoln County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Tacoma, The Northwest Seaport Alliance South Harbor, about 800 road miles.
- The Port of Seattle, The Northwest Seaport Alliance North Harbor, about 800 road miles.
- The Port of Everett, about 800 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
Lincoln County, counted.
Lincoln County averages 50 inches of snow a year. 4 active surface mines and quarries work Lincoln County's ground. Lincoln County has 605 farms and 223 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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