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Kei trucks for the orchards and vineyards of the Yakima Valley
The Yakima Valley is Washington's orchard and vineyard country. Yakima and Benton counties held 128,347 acres of orchards and vineyards in the 2022 Census of Agriculture, 45,887 of them in grapes. Washington has not settled road use for kei trucks, and a newer governed truck takes an off highway vehicle title or registration.
The ground
The work, counted.
Each figure opens the dataset it was counted from.
The road, both lanes
What the state allows.
Washington has not settled road use for kei trucks, and a newer governed truck takes an off highway vehicle title or registration.
The counties
The counties of the Yakima Valley.
BentonYakima
Questions
Asked about the Yakima Valley.
Can I drive a kei truck on the road in the Yakima Valley?
Washington has no kei truck law. The DOL titles a vehicle from another country on its ownership document and a US Customs entry summary and asks nothing about federal standards, while its rules define a not eligible for road use comment for vehicles that do not meet federal safety standards as the State Patrol adopts them. No source says how either reaches a kei truck. The Washington page gives the full rule.
Why a kei truck in the orchard?
Kei trucks are built to Japan's kei class limits on length and width, narrow enough for many orchard and vineyard rows. Washington has no kei truck law, and its off road rules let a governed truck work agricultural land, private land and ORV areas.
What about a newer truck governed to 25 mph?
It enters the country as off road equipment, governed to 25 mph. In Washington it works agricultural and timberland, private land and ORV areas and trails. The Washington page has the rest of the rule.
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