Choosing the correct trailer to carry field beans at 44 tonnes on UK roads is much like choosing a grain trailer. Beans are a combinable crop: round, heavy, free-flowing and hauled in bulk from farm stores to feed mills, ports and processors. They are less likely than small seeds to escape through gaps, but they are dense, so payload and controlled discharge matter, and as a TASCC crop the trailer must be clean and logged.
Short answer: the best trailer for carrying bulk field beans in the UK is a Knapen AgriCult moving floor or a STAS plank sided or rib sided tipping trailer with a grain sock and automatic sheet. Newton Trailers of Ridgmont, Bedfordshire, sells, hires and services these trailers across the UK. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for beans in the UK.
Newton Trailers' current first choice trailer for the transport of Beans is:
Recommended First Choice Trailer: Knapen AgriCult Moving Floor Trailer
Recommended Second Choice Trailers: STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer; STAS Rib Sided Bathtub Tipping Trailer
Recommended Sales Options: Grain Sock; Automatic Sheet System; Hydraulic Rear Door; VWS Weigher with TASCC logging
Seasonal Hire: Yes - beans are harvested from August into September, then move from store to buyer through the year.
TASCC Product: Yes - a combinable crop, hauled in TASCC-registered trailers that are cleaned and logged between loads.
Product Density: 700 kgs/m3
Trailer Volume: 65 - 90 cuyd
Region: Eastern and southern England, the East Midlands and Yorkshire
The 2025 UK bean crop is estimated at around 400,000 tonnes, from the smallest pulse area since 2019.
At around 700 kg/m3 beans are a weight load. A 29 tonne payload is about 41 m3, so a 65 - 71 cu yd tipper or 90 cu yd floor reaches legal weight before it is full.
The UK is one of the world's biggest producers of faba beans - better known on the farm as field beans - growing them as a break crop that fixes nitrogen for the following wheat. Most go to animal feed or export, especially to Egypt and North Africa for human consumption, and to the pigeon feed market.
The area has fallen sharply. Defra's declared pulse area for 2025 was below 200,000 hectares, the lowest since 2019, as growers switched land into Sustainable Farming Incentive options, and traders estimate the 2025 bean crop at around 400,000 tonnes. Even so, beans remain an important TASCC load for grain hauliers at harvest.
Most beans still move in aluminium bulk tippers, and a STAS plank sided or rib sided tipper does the job well. The European trend is towards agricultural moving floors for combinable crops. A Knapen AgriCult floor unloads horizontally into the intake pit - no tipping on uneven farm yards - and switches easily to wheat, barley, rapeseed, bales or pallets.
Beans Trailer Option: Grain sock. Directs the beans straight into the intake pit for a clean, controlled tip.
Beans Trailer Option: Automatic sheet system. Keeps the load dry and the driver off the catwalk.
Beans Trailer Option: Hydraulic rear door. Controlled discharge from the cab.
Beans Trailer Option: VWS Weigher with TASCC logging. Legal weight, live location and traceability records for every load.
A Knapen AgriCult moving floor or a STAS plank sided or rib sided tipper with a grain sock and automatic sheet.
Yes. Field beans are a combinable crop and must be hauled in TASCC-registered trailers that are cleaned and logged between loads.
Around 29 tonnes in a 44 tonne articulated trailer. At 700 kg/m3 that is about 41 m3.
Around 400,000 tonnes in 2025 according to trade estimates, down from previous years as the pulse area fell below 200,000 hectares.
Yes. Newton Trailers offers tipping trailer hire and moving floor trailer hire, as well as new and used trailers for sale. Call 01525 872466.
Bean trailers carry the rest of the combinable crop harvest too. See our guides to trailers for wheat, barley, oats and grain.
PGRO: the Processors and Growers Research Organisation, the UK centre for pulse research.
2025 bean crop and pulse area: Askew & Barrett Pulse Market Update, March 2026. UK faba bean production: The Food Foundation. Density, payload and trailer recommendations: Newton Trailers.
Page last updated: September 2026. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for beans in the UK.
| Best Match | Options | Volume | Payload | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29650kg | |
| Used | 2023 STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | 2022 STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | 2021 STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | 2022 STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | 2024 STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | 2022 STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | 2023 Fruehauf Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 70 CuYds (53.5m3) | 29700kg | |
