Can I own one here
Owning one in Morgan 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 Morgan County.
None found. Neither Morgan County's code nor Morgan City's opens a road to OHVs, so only street-legal vehicles may drive here.
This rests on Utah law. No Morgan County ordinance or resolution was read.
In town Closed
- Closed Morgan. 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
County roads Closed
The Morgan County code on American Legal was walked chapter by chapter outside its land use titles and no chapter or section heading concerns OHVs, so no county road is designated and 41-22-10.5(5) keeps county roads closed to them. Designation by sign or map under 41-22-10.1 was not looked for. no OHV designation found in the county code, read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Morgan County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Oakland, about 700 road miles.
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 800 road miles.
- The Port of Tacoma, The Northwest Seaport Alliance South Harbor, 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
Morgan County, counted.
Morgan County averages 55 inches of snow a year. 4 active surface mines and quarries work Morgan County's ground. Farms in Morgan County hold 18,159 acres of woodland.
Areas
The areas Morgan 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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