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Mini trucks in Berkeley County, West Virginia
Kei trucks in West Virginia, free on the farm and street legal on back roads.
Berkeley CountyWest Virginia
Can I own one here
Owning one in Berkeley County.
On your own land
On private land and on a farm off the public road a mini-truck is not on a highway and none of the county or town acts on this map applies. Title and registration are for street-legal use under 17A-13-1, and that section opens no area that is not open to motor vehicle use (17A-13-1(f)).
On the farm
A mini-truck used exclusively for agricultural or horticultural purposes is exempt from title and registration and may use highways other than expressways to go from one tract of land to another, owned by the same person or different persons, up to 35 miles and by day. A farm exempt vehicle may not use the highways between sunset and sunrise unless it is a Class A farm-use vehicle with a current inspection sticker traveling 35 miles or less between tracts.
A 25 year truck on the road
Road use with limits. West Virginia lets a titled, registered and equipped mini-truck run as a street-legal special purpose vehicle, off controlled-access and federal-aid highways and for no more than 20 miles on a road with centerline markings.
A newer governed truck
Farm use. None required for a mini-truck used exclusively for agricultural or horticultural purposes. A title is required for street-legal use.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Berkeley County.
Roads open. Berkeley County's 2004 order keeps straddle seat ATVs off every county road and county park, with a few towns able to opt in, and says nothing of a UTV or a truck, so a titled, registered and equipped kei truck keeps the state's default on county roads, up to 20 miles on a centerline road and off any highway built under a federal highways program. The towns were not read.
In town To confirm
No town street opening was found in the codes read.
County roads Open
The commission's order under 17F-1-3 bars an ATV from any road, street or avenue in the county and from county property, parks included, except interstates and the streets of incorporated municipalities whose governing bodies have affirmatively provided for ATVs, with farm, oil and gas, timbering, surveying and utility use exempt, and it covers the roads of subdivisions that petition. It defines an ATV as a motor vehicle 52 inches or less wide, 800 pounds or less unladen, on three or more low pressure tires, with a seat designed to be straddled. A UTV, which has a steering wheel and bench or bucket seats, and a mini-truck are outside that definition, so the state's default for a street-legal special purpose vehicle stands on county roads. The commission recites a comprehensive plan under which the county operates. The copy read is a 2010 filing of the order with the subdivision list, which runs to 2007 petitions. Order of the Berkeley County Commission, All-Terrain Vehicles Ordinance, effective 1 July 2004, copy dated 13 May 2010, read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Berkeley 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 2,700 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
Berkeley County, counted.
Berkeley County grows 1,927 acres of orchards and vineyards. Berkeley County has 849 farms and 283 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Berkeley County is mostly urban, with 32 percent of its people outside urban areas.
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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