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Mini trucks in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
Wisconsin keeps kei trucks to private ground and collector plates.
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Can I own one here
Owning one in Eau Claire County.
On your own land
On a farm or private land closed to public traffic a kei truck needs no registration in Wisconsin, with the owner's consent.
On the farm
No Wisconsin farm rule names a kei truck. An implement of husbandry under 340.01(24) must be manufactured, designed or reconstructed for farm work and used only for it. Whether a kei truck can qualify by reconstruction is not settled.
To confirm.
A 25 year truck on the road
Road use with limits, to confirm. Wisconsin law names Kei class vehicles, refuses them regular plates and counts them as off-road utility vehicles that may never use a highway posted over 35 mph. The statute's words leave collector plates open to an eligible special interest vehicle, and WisDOT decides whether a kei truck qualifies.
A newer governed truck
Private land only. A Kei class vehicle may be titled. A newer truck is too young for collector plates, so no registration is open.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Eau Claire County.
To confirm. Eau Claire County is reported to have opened about three quarters of its county roads to ATVs and UTVs in 2024 at 35 mph or less, and the ordinance still has to be read.
In town To confirm
- Some Pleasant Valley. Routes open only after the town board approves them by ordinance and signs go up, at 35 mph, from an hour before sunrise to an hour after sunset, with insurance, as the ordinance is summarised. Town of Pleasant Valley Ordinance 22-15-01, read 28 October 2026
County roads Some
About 300 miles, roughly 75 percent of county roads, opened in July 2024 unless posted otherwise, on the pavement at the far right at 35 mph or the posted limit if lower, as the sheriff and local news reported. The county ordinance was not read. Eau Claire County ATV ordinance of 2024, as reported, read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Eau Claire County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 1,200 road miles.
- The JAXPORT, Jacksonville Port Authority, about 1,400 road miles.
- The Port of Everett, about 1,800 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
Eau Claire County, counted.
Eau Claire County averages 54 inches of snow a year. Eau Claire County has 1,006 farms and 345 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Eau Claire County grows 114 acres of orchards and vineyards.
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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