Can I own one here
Owning one in Montgomery 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. A micro utility truck may drive Kansas public roads that are not interstate, federal or state highways. City streets open only where the city allows it.
A newer governed truck
Off highway vehicle. Nonhighway certificate of title. The micro utility truck definition asks whether the truck could exceed 40 mph as originally manufactured, so on its face it reaches a governed truck as well as an old one.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Montgomery County.
Roads open. State law opens the county and township roads of Montgomery County outside its cities to a UTV of the work-site class and to a micro utility truck, which is the class a kei truck falls in, and keeps them off every interstate, federal and state highway. Independence issues a micro utility truck application with a police inspection, so micro utility trucks reach its streets, and the ordinance text was not read.
This rests on Kansas law. No Montgomery County ordinance or resolution was read.
In town Some
- To confirm Coffeyville. The city's own code was not read. Kansas keeps its streets closed to all-terrain vehicles, work-site utility vehicles and micro utility trucks unless the city authorizes them, K.S.A. 8-15,100(a)(2), 8-15,106(a)(2) and 8-15,109(a)(2).
- Some Independence. The city issues a micro utility truck application that asks for liability insurance and a police inspection, which shows micro utility trucks are allowed on city streets once inspected. The ordinance text was not read, and a September 2025 ordinance (4493) lets first responders use all-terrain and work-site vehicles and keeps state and federal highways closed except to cross. Ordinance 4024 as cited on the city application form; Ordinance 4493, September 2025, per the city search listing, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm Cherryvale. The city's own code was not read. Kansas keeps its streets closed to all-terrain vehicles, work-site utility vehicles and micro utility trucks unless the city authorizes them, K.S.A. 8-15,100(a)(2), 8-15,106(a)(2) and 8-15,109(a)(2).
- To confirm Caney. The city's own code was not read. Kansas keeps its streets closed to all-terrain vehicles, work-site utility vehicles and micro utility trucks unless the city authorizes them, K.S.A. 8-15,100(a)(2), 8-15,106(a)(2) and 8-15,109(a)(2).
- To confirm Dearing. The city's own code was not read. Kansas keeps its streets closed to all-terrain vehicles, work-site utility vehicles and micro utility trucks unless the city authorizes them, K.S.A. 8-15,100(a)(2), 8-15,106(a)(2) and 8-15,109(a)(2).
County roads Open
County and township roads outside the corporate limits of every city are open by state law to all-terrain vehicles, work-site utility vehicles and micro utility trucks. K.S.A. 8-15,100(a), 8-15,106(a) and 8-15,109(a) bar them only from interstate, federal and state highways and from city streets the city has not authorized, and the sections name no county power over them. No resolution of Montgomery County changing that was read. K.S.A. 8-15,100(a), 8-15,106(a) and 8-15,109(a). No county act read., read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Montgomery 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 600 road miles. Port Houston lists no direct sailing from Japan.
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 1,100 road miles.
- The JAXPORT, Jacksonville Port Authority, about 1,100 road miles.
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 1,500 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
Montgomery County, counted.
Montgomery County has 892 farms and 562 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Montgomery County grows 341 acres of orchards and vineyards. Farms in Montgomery County hold 17,707 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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