Can I own one here
Owning one in Cass 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. In Minnesota a mini truck drives public roads only under a permit from a county, city or town and only on the roads that government designates.
A newer governed truck
Unclear. None. The mini truck definition reaches any kei truck of 660 cc or less that was not built to federal safety standards, governed or not.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Cass County.
To confirm. Cass County appears to open the traveled lanes of its county highways to ATVs under a 2024 ordinance that was not read, and no mini truck ordinance was found, so no road here is known to be open to a kei truck.
In town To confirm
No town street opening was found in the codes read.
County roads To confirm
Search excerpts and a newspaper column describe Ordinance No. 2024-01, effective 16 May 2024, as letting ATVs use the traveled portion of county highways, county state-aid highways, county roads and unorganized town roads in the direction of traffic, class 1 ATVs at 30 mph or less and class 2 ATVs at the posted limit. The county's site refused every request, so the text was not read. The excerpts name ATVs only. Cass County Ordinance No. 2024-01, effective 16 May 2024, seen only in excerpts, read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Cass County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 1,500 road miles.
- The Port of Everett, about 1,600 road miles.
- The Port of Seattle, The Northwest Seaport Alliance North Harbor, about 1,600 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
Cass County, counted.
Cass County averages 43 inches of snow a year. Farms in Cass County hold 28,510 acres of woodland. Cass County has 488 farms and 216 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.
Contact
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