Can I own one here
Owning one in Franklin 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. Arkansas registers a mini truck only as a farm vehicle. Once registered it may use roads posted 55 mph or less that are not interstates or controlled access highways, where it can keep up with the posted speed.
A newer governed truck
Farm use. The mini truck definition sets size, weight and equipment with no speed term, so on its face it reaches a governed truck that carries the listed equipment.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Franklin County.
To confirm. Arkansas bars an ATV or recreational off-highway vehicle from every public street and county road in Franklin County apart from farm and hunting trips between fields and direct crossings, and no county or town act opening one was read. A kei truck registers as a farm plated mini-truck, which is not an ATV, and may use roads posted 55 mph or less.
In town Closed
- Closed Altus. The street is a public street of the state under Ark. Code Ann. 27-21-102(3) and 27-21-106(a) bars an all-terrain vehicle, which takes in a recreational off-highway vehicle, from it apart from the listed exceptions. The text read has no clause letting a town open a street by ordinance, and the town's code was not read in this pass. Ark. Code Ann. 27-21-106; no town ordinance read, read 28 October 2026
- Closed Branch. The street is a public street of the state under Ark. Code Ann. 27-21-102(3) and 27-21-106(a) bars an all-terrain vehicle, which takes in a recreational off-highway vehicle, from it apart from the listed exceptions. The text read has no clause letting a town open a street by ordinance, and the town's code was not read in this pass. Ark. Code Ann. 27-21-106; no town ordinance read, read 28 October 2026
- Closed Charleston. The street is a public street of the state under Ark. Code Ann. 27-21-102(3) and 27-21-106(a) bars an all-terrain vehicle, which takes in a recreational off-highway vehicle, from it apart from the listed exceptions. The text read has no clause letting a town open a street by ordinance, and the town's code was not read in this pass. Ark. Code Ann. 27-21-106; no town ordinance read, read 28 October 2026
- Closed Denning. The street is a public street of the state under Ark. Code Ann. 27-21-102(3) and 27-21-106(a) bars an all-terrain vehicle, which takes in a recreational off-highway vehicle, from it apart from the listed exceptions. The text read has no clause letting a town open a street by ordinance, and the town's code was not read in this pass. Ark. Code Ann. 27-21-106; no town ordinance read, read 28 October 2026
- Closed Ozark. The street is a public street of the state under Ark. Code Ann. 27-21-102(3) and 27-21-106(a) bars an all-terrain vehicle, which takes in a recreational off-highway vehicle, from it apart from the listed exceptions. The text read has no clause letting a town open a street by ordinance, and the town's code was not read in this pass. Ark. Code Ann. 27-21-106; no town ordinance read, read 28 October 2026
- Closed Wiederkehr Village. The street is a public street of the state under Ark. Code Ann. 27-21-102(3) and 27-21-106(a) bars an all-terrain vehicle, which takes in a recreational off-highway vehicle, from it apart from the listed exceptions. The text read has no clause letting a town open a street by ordinance, and the town's code was not read in this pass. Ark. Code Ann. 27-21-106; no town ordinance read, read 28 October 2026
County roads Closed
Closed to an all-terrain vehicle or recreational off-highway vehicle on every county road by Ark. Code Ann. 27-21-106(a), which bars one from any public street or highway maintained by the state or a political subdivision except farming or hunting between fields, direct crossings, a rider with a serious walking disability, on-duty officials, utility workers and state park employees. The text read has no clause letting the county open a road by ordinance and the reprint is current to 28 March 2024. No Franklin County quorum court ordinance on off-highway vehicles was read in this pass. Ark. Code Ann. 27-21-106(a); no county ordinance read, read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Franklin County.
The road hub, then the nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- Houston, the road hub for Texas and the central states, about 500 road miles. Port Houston lists no direct sailing from Japan.
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 900 road miles.
- The JAXPORT, Jacksonville Port Authority, about 1,000 road miles.
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 1,600 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
Franklin County, counted.
Franklin County grows 267 acres of orchards and vineyards. Franklin County has 682 farms and 508 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. 3 active surface mines and quarries work Franklin County's ground.
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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