Choosing the correct trailer to carry coffee at 44 tonnes on UK roads depends on the stage: green coffee beans moving from port to roaster, or spent coffee grounds moving from cafés and factories to recyclers. Spent grounds are wet, heavy and very sticky - one of the stickiest loads there is.
Short answer: the best trailer for carrying bulk coffee and spent grounds in the UK is a STAS plank sided tipper - watertight for wet grounds - with a good automatic roll over sheet. Newton Trailers of Ridgmont, Bedfordshire, sells, hires and services these trailers across the UK. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for coffee in the UK.
Newton Trailers' current first choice trailer for the transport of Coffee is:
Recommended First Choice Trailer: STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer
Recommended Second Choice Trailers: Watertight STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer
Recommended Sales Options: Watertight Rear Door Seal; Automatic Roll Over Sheet; Quicksilver Liner; VWS Weigher
Seasonal Hire: No - coffee is drunk year round.
TASCC Product: Yes - coffee is a permissible load under TASCC rules, so it can be carried in a TASCC-registered trailer.
Product Density: 650 kgs/m3
Trailer Volume: 45 - 71 cuyd
Region: Ports and roasters for beans; cafés, offices and instant coffee factories to recyclers for grounds
The UK produces an estimated 250,000 - 500,000 tonnes of spent coffee grounds a year.
At around 650 kg/m3 a 29 tonne payload is about 45 m3, so a 65 - 71 cu yd tipper reaches legal weight before it is full.
Britain drinks around 95 - 98 million cups of coffee a day, producing an estimated 250,000 - 500,000 tonnes of spent grounds a year. Recyclers such as bio-bean, which can process up to 50,000 tonnes a year, turn grounds into biomass pellets, coffee logs and natural extracts.
Instant coffee factories produce grounds in bulk; café grounds are collected and bulked up first.
A plank sided tipper is the simple, versatile coffee trailer. For wet grounds, a watertight version with a Quicksilver liner helps the sticky load slide out cleanly.
Coffee Trailer Option: Watertight rear door seal. Keeps liquid from wet grounds in the trailer.
Coffee Trailer Option: Quicksilver liner. Helps very sticky grounds slide out.
Coffee Trailer Option: Automatic roll over sheet. Keeps the load covered.
Coffee Trailer Option: VWS Weigher. Wet grounds are heavier than they look.
A watertight STAS plank sided tipper with a Quicksilver liner and an automatic roll over sheet.
An estimated 250,000 - 500,000 tonnes of spent coffee grounds a year.
Yes. Coffee 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 tipping trailer hire, as well as new and used trailers for sale. Call 01525 872466.
A coffee trailer also carries other food by-products. See our guides to trailers for food waste and AD Plant feedstock.
UK spent coffee grounds: British Coffee Association (bio-bean). Density, payload and trailer recommendations: Newton Trailers.
Page last updated: September 2026. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for coffee in the UK.
| Best Match | Options | Volume | Payload | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29650kg | |
| Used | 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 | 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 STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | 2023 Fruehauf Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 70 CuYds (53.5m3) | 29700kg | |
