Arizona has no kei-specific restriction, and the OHV decal does not apply to these trucks. What does apply is the emissions programme in metro Phoenix and Tucson — and one widely repeated exemption is quoted in the wrong unit.
North Carolina wrote a road class for 660cc trucks and exempted them from the FMVSS rule it applies to low-speed vehicles. It also bans antique plates outright — and its length limit describes a standard Japan replaced in 1998.
Michigan titles and registers kei trucks 25 years and older for on-road use, and says so in its own Secretary of State FAQ. The wording, the paperwork, the fee rule — and the one clause that decides it.
New York’s DMV names kei vehicles on its own registration page and refuses them. It closes the conversion route too, and a kei truck is not an ATV under state law. The wording, quoted.
Georgia bars titling kei trucks and has cancelled titles it already issued. The Revenue Department’s bulletin, quoted, including the import form the state reads as evidence against you.
PennDOT closed unrestricted registration in December 2021. The antique plate still puts a kei truck on Pennsylvania roads — one day a week, and only if the truck stays original. The rules, quoted.
Kei fire trucks and food trucks exist, but not in the market everyone searches. I counted 449 listings in Japan and found zero fire trucks — here is where they actually change hands.
Work out the true landed cost of importing a kei truck, starting from the measured Japanese price rather than a guess. FY2026 customs fees, duty classification and freight, itemised.
California will not register an imported kei truck — not for road use, and per the DMV’s own procedures manual, not for off-highway use either. The rules quoted, and what to do instead.
Florida titles and plates kei trucks as mini trucks, then limits them to roads posted 35 mph or less. The statute, what that means in practice, and the rust problem explained from Japan.