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Mini trucks in Lafayette County, Wisconsin
Wisconsin keeps kei trucks to private ground and collector plates.
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Can I own one here
Owning one in Lafayette 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 Lafayette County.
To confirm. Lafayette County opens named county road segments to ATVs and UTVs at 30 mph outside 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. with insurance, Darlington opens its slower streets and the current county text still has to be read.
In town To confirm
- Some Darlington. City streets all year where the limit is 35 mph or less, with insurance, a driver's licence and a safety certificate, as the city's page states. A three lane stretch of WIS 23 near WIS 81 stays closed. City of Darlington ATV and UTV page, read 28 October 2026
County roads Some
Named county road segments added by resolution to Chapter 8, among them parts of County F, M and Z, under a route ordinance last revised 18 August 2020 with 30 mph, paved surfaces only and no riding from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., as search excerpts of the county's files quote them. The files are no longer posted. Lafayette County Code Chapter 8, revised 18 August 2020, read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Lafayette County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 1,100 road miles.
- The JAXPORT, Jacksonville Port Authority, about 1,200 road miles.
- The Port of Everett, about 1,900 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
Lafayette County, counted.
Lafayette County has 1,162 farms and 602 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Lafayette County averages 36 inches of snow a year. Farms in Lafayette County hold 23,032 acres of woodland.
Areas
The areas Lafayette 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.
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