Can I own one here
Owning one in Cache 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. Utah registers kei class trucks as novel vehicles and a novel vehicle equipped to the street-legal standard may run on Utah roads at up to 50 miles per hour, never on an interstate.
A newer governed truck
Off highway vehicle. Registered as a novel vehicle, which Utah governs under its off-highway vehicle chapter. The division may issue a title.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Cache County.
Towns only. Cache County's code opens no county road to OHVs, while Mendon, Providence and Richmond open their town streets apart from the state highways through them.
In town Open
- To confirm Amalga. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- Closed Clarkston. The town's code on American Legal was walked chapter by chapter through its traffic, public safety and public ways titles and no chapter or section heading concerns OHVs, so no street is designated and 41-22-10.5(5) keeps streets closed to them. A rule under a general heading could have been missed. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm Cornish. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- To confirm Hyde Park. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- Closed Hyrum. The town's code was searched for off-highway, off highway and all-terrain on Municipal Code Online and designates no street for OHVs, so Utah Code 41-22-10.5(5) keeps its streets closed to them. A street-legal ATV or street-legal novel vehicle may still use them under 41-6a-1509. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- Closed Lewiston. The town's code on American Legal was walked chapter by chapter through its traffic, public safety and public ways titles and no chapter or section heading concerns OHVs, so no street is designated and 41-22-10.5(5) keeps streets closed to them. A rule under a general heading could have been missed. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- Closed Logan. The town's code on American Legal was walked chapter by chapter through its traffic, public safety and public ways titles and no chapter or section heading concerns OHVs, so no street is designated and 41-22-10.5(5) keeps streets closed to them. A rule under a general heading could have been missed. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- Open Mendon. Every city street is an OHV route except 100 West, which is SR 23 and may be crossed. OHVs keep to 20 mph on the roadway and undeveloped shoulder and stay out of parks and the Town Square. Mendon City Code 10.14.020, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm Millville. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- To confirm Newton. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- Closed Nibley. The town's code was searched for off-highway, off highway and all-terrain on Municipal Code Online and designates no street for OHVs, so Utah Code 41-22-10.5(5) keeps its streets closed to them. A street-legal ATV or street-legal novel vehicle may still use them under 41-6a-1509. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- Closed North Logan. The code adopts the state snowmobile and ATV chapter and designates no street, so streets are closed to OHVs under 41-22-10.5(5). North Logan City Code 11-212, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm Paradise. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- Open Providence. Every city street is an OHV route except SR 165, County Road 238 (200 West, 100 North from 100 West to 200 West and 100 West north of 100 North) and 100 North west of 200 West, all of which may be crossed. OHVs keep to the posted limit. Providence City Code 5-9-3, Ordinance 06-2022 of 21 September 2022, read 28 October 2026
- Open Richmond. OHVs may use every city street and road except 200 West (US 91) and Main Street west of 200 West (SR 142), which they may cross by the most direct way. Richmond City Code 11-395, Ordinance 2019-2 of 19 February 2019, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm River Heights. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- Closed Smithfield. The town's code was searched for off-highway, off highway and all-terrain on Municipal Code Online and designates no street for OHVs, so Utah Code 41-22-10.5(5) keeps its streets closed to them. A street-legal ATV or street-legal novel vehicle may still use them under 41-6a-1509. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm Trenton. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- Closed Wellsville. The town's code on American Legal was walked chapter by chapter through its traffic, public safety and public ways titles and no chapter or section heading concerns OHVs, so no street is designated and 41-22-10.5(5) keeps streets closed to them. A rule under a general heading could have been missed. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
County roads Closed
The Cache County code on Municipal Code Online was searched for off-highway, off highway and all-terrain and designates no county road, so under Utah Code 41-22-10.5(5) county roads are closed to OHVs. 41-22-10.1 also lets a county open roads by sign or map without an ordinance, and none was looked for. no OHV designation found in the county code, read 28 October 2026
State highways Crossings only
- Mendon's code keeps OHVs off 100 West (SR 23) except to cross. Mendon City Code 10.14.020, read 28 October 2026
- Providence's code keeps OHVs off SR 165 except to cross. Providence City Code 5-9-3, read 28 October 2026
- Richmond's code lets OHVs cross US 91 (200 West) and SR 142 by the most direct way but not travel along them. Richmond City Code 11-395, read 28 October 2026
Getting one here
From Japan to Cache County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Oakland, about 700 road miles.
- The Port of Tacoma, The Northwest Seaport Alliance South Harbor, about 800 road miles.
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 800 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
Cache County, counted.
Cache County averages 54 inches of snow a year. Cache County has 1,378 farms and 517 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. 4 active surface mines and quarries work Cache County's ground.
Areas
The areas Cache County is part of.
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.
News for Utah Utah adds gray market title brands on 1 January 2027
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