Choosing the correct trailer to carry surplus bread at 44 tonnes on UK roads depends on where it is going. Unsold bread and bakery products from supermarkets and bakeries are increasingly processed into animal feed, so they have to be carried cleanly - while bread destined for anaerobic digestion is a wetter, stickier waste load.
Short answer: the best trailer for carrying surplus bread in the UK is a Knapen biomass or standard moving floor, or a plank sided tipper - watertight for wetter loads. Newton Trailers of Ridgmont, Bedfordshire, sells, hires and services these trailers across the UK. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for bread in the UK.
Newton Trailers' current first choice trailer for the transport of Bread is:
Recommended First Choice Trailer: Knapen Biomass Moving Floor Trailer
Recommended Second Choice Trailers: Knapen Standard or Ultralight Moving Floor; STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer (watertight for wet loads)
Recommended Sales Options: Automatic Roll Over Sheet; Watertight Rear Door Seal; Ultralight Body; VWS Weigher
Seasonal Hire: Partly - surplus rises around holidays.
TASCC Product: Yes - bread is a permissible load under TASCC rules, so it can be carried in a TASCC-registered trailer.
Product Density: 300 - 450 kgs/m3
Trailer Volume: 90 - 130 cuyd
Region: Supermarkets, bakeries and food factories to former-foodstuff processors and AD plants
Surplus bakery products make up around a third of UK retail food waste - about 67,500 tonnes a year, according to WRAP.
At 300 - 450 kg/m3 bread is a volume load; a big floor fills before legal weight.
Bread is one of the most wasted foods in the UK. WRAP estimates surplus bakery products make up around a third of retail food waste, about 67,500 tonnes a year, and households throw away far more.
The best route is back into the food chain as animal feed: Tesco and SugaRich, for example, divert surplus bakery from stores to feed rather than AD. That is food-chain work, so clean, well-sheeted trailers matter.
A Knapen floor carries the volume bread needs and unloads cleanly at feed processors. For wetter bakery waste going to AD, a watertight plank tipper keeps liquids in.
Bread Trailer Option: Automatic roll over sheet. Keeps bread dry and contained.
Bread Trailer Option: Watertight rear door seal. For wetter bakery waste.
Bread Trailer Option: Ultralight body. More volume per trip.
Bread Trailer Option: VWS Weigher. Records every load.
A Knapen biomass or standard moving floor, or a plank tipper - watertight for wetter loads.
Increasingly to animal feed as a former foodstuff, with the rest to anaerobic digestion.
Yes. Bread is a permissible load under TASCC rules, so it can be carried in a TASCC-registered trailer, with the load and cleaning recorded as part of the trailer's previous-load history.
Yes. Newton Trailers offers moving floor trailer hire and tipping trailer hire, as well as new and used trailers for sale. Call 01525 872466.
A bread trailer also carries other food and feed loads. See our guides to trailers for food waste, AD Plant feedstock and wheat.
Retail bakery surplus: Bakery and Snacks, citing WRAP. Bakery surplus to animal feed: WRAP. Density, payload and trailer recommendations: Newton Trailers.
Page last updated: September 2026. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for bread in the UK.
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| Used | 2021 Knapen Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 140 CuYds (107.0m3) | 27900kg | |
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