Can I own one here
Owning one in Hancock County.
On your own land
On private land with the owner's consent an off-road vehicle needs no local act. Indiana asks for BMV registration and decals on an off-road vehicle and DNR rules govern public land.
To confirm.
On the farm
IC 14-16-1-20 does not apply to a farm vehicle being used for farming, which is outside the off-road vehicle class by the BMV's own page. No Indiana source read puts a kei truck on a county road for farm work outside the local acts.
To confirm.
A 25 year truck on the road
Road use with limits. Indiana titles and plates a mini truck for the road, and it may go anywhere except an interstate highway.
A newer governed truck
Off highway vehicle. ORV title, required for an ORV bought after 31 December 2009, applied for within 45 days.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Hancock County.
To confirm. Hancock County's code has a section on the operation of off-road vehicles that a search listing describes as allowing them on highways in the county road system outside cities and towns. The section was read only as far as its statement of purpose.
In town To confirm
No town street opening was found in the codes read.
County roads Open
Highways within the county road system, outside city and town limits, subject to state law, as a search listing describes the section. The code page was read only to its opening paragraph on IC 14-16-1-1 and then stopped answering. Hancock County Code section 70.04, Operation of Off-Road Vehicles, in supplement 22 of 2025, read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Hancock County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 700 road miles.
- The JAXPORT, Jacksonville Port Authority, about 800 road miles.
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 2,200 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
Hancock County, counted.
Hancock County is mostly urban, with 28 percent of its people outside urban areas. Hancock County has 505 farms and 122 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Farms in Hancock County hold 8,667 acres of woodland.
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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