Can I own one here
Owning one in Sawyer 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 Sawyer County.
Some routes. Sawyer County opens a yearly renewed list of county highway stretches to registered ATVs and UTVs, and Hayward opens every city street and its slower state highway stretches.
In town Some
- Open Hayward. Every street, alley, parking lot and public land in the city, plus WIS 27 from US 63 to South Florida Avenue, WIS 27/77 from US 63 to Hospital Road, WIS 77 from US 63 to Ranch Road and County B from WIS 27 to Chippewa Trail where posted 35 mph or less. US 63 waits on WisDOT. City of Hayward Ordinance 552 amending Code Chapter 428, read 28 October 2026
- Open Hayward. Every town road in the Town of Hayward, a civil town apart from the City of Hayward, unless otherwise stated. Town of Hayward ATV ordinance, adopted 9 August 2005 and amended through 11 April 2023, read 28 October 2026
County roads Some
Only the county highway stretches listed in Section 3.01, renewed and extended in May 2024, among them County GG, H, K, KK, M, OO, S, T and W in Draper, Radisson, Bass Lake, Winter, Lenroot, Round Lake and Spider Lake. Requests come through the county's snowmobile and ATV alliance and routes inside the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation go to the tribal council. Sawyer County ATV/UTV Ordinance Section 3.01 as amended by Resolutions 2024-12 and 2024-19, the second recommended 8 May 2024, read 28 October 2026
State highways Segments open
- WIS 27, WIS 27/77 and WIS 77 inside Hayward where posted 35 mph or less City of Hayward Ordinance 552 under 23.33(11)(am)4., read 28 October 2026
Getting one here
From Japan to Sawyer County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 1,300 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
Sawyer County, counted.
Sawyer County averages 61 inches of snow a year. 100 percent of Sawyer County's people live outside urban areas. Farms in Sawyer County hold 12,538 acres of woodland.
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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