Choosing the correct trailer to carry filter cake at 44 tonnes on UK roads means containing a wet, heavy and sticky load. Filter cake is the dewatered solid from water treatment, industrial processes and quarry washing plants, and it moves to land application, landfill or recovery.
Short answer: the best trailer for carrying filter cake in the UK is a watertight STAS plank sided tipper or a Knapen AgriCult or biomass moving floor. Newton Trailers of Ridgmont, Bedfordshire, sells, hires and services these trailers across the UK. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for filter cake in the UK.
Newton Trailers' current first choice trailer for the transport of Filter Cake is:
Recommended First Choice Trailer: Watertight STAS Plank Sided Tipper
Recommended Second Choice Trailers: Knapen AgriCult or Biomass Moving Floor; STAS Plank Sided Tipper
Recommended Sales Options: Watertight Rear Door Seal; Quicksilver Liner; Automatic Roll Over Sheet; VWS Weigher
Seasonal Hire: No - treatment plants run year round.
TASCC Product: No - filter cake is not a permissible load for TASCC-registered trailers, so keep it to non-TASCC trailers.
Product Density: 700 kgs/m3
Trailer Volume: 45 - 70 cuyd
Region: Water treatment works, quarries and industrial sites to land application, recovery and landfill
Filter cake comes from many industries, so there is no single national tonnage.
At around 700 kg/m3 a 29 tonne payload is about 41 m3.
Filter cake is produced wherever liquids are filtered and dewatered - water treatment, quarry silt ponds, food and chemical processing. Depending on its makeup it can be spread to land, recovered or landfilled.
A watertight plank tipper with a Quicksilver liner keeps liquid in and helps sticky cake slide out; a moving floor walks it out horizontally.
Filter Cake Trailer Option: Watertight rear door seal. Keeps liquid in the trailer.
Filter Cake Trailer Option: Quicksilver liner. Helps sticky cake slide out.
Filter Cake Trailer Option: Automatic roll over sheet. Contains odour and spray.
Filter Cake Trailer Option: VWS Weigher. Wet cake is heavy.
A watertight STAS plank sided tipper or a Knapen moving floor.
Yes. Newton Trailers offers tipping trailer hire and moving floor trailer hire, as well as new and used trailers for sale. Call 01525 872466.
A filter cake trailer also carries other wet organic loads. See our guides to trailers for AD Plant feedstock and food waste.
These UK trade bodies and associations represent, regulate or market the loads on this page:
Water UK: represents the UK water and wastewater companies.
Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA): the trade body for anaerobic digestion and bioresources.
Density, payload and trailer recommendations: Newton Trailers.
Page last updated: September 2026. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for filter cake in the UK.
| Best Match | Options | Volume | Payload | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | SDC Watertight Tipping Trailer | 64 CuYds (48.9m3) | 29500kg | |
| Used | 2021 Knapen Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 130 CuYds (99.4m3) | 28050kg | |
| Also See | New Knapen Agricultural Moving Floor Trailer | 96 CuYds (73.4m3) | 28475kg | |
| Also See | New Knapen Agricultural Moving Floor Trailer | 90 CuYds (68.8m3) | 27475kg | |
| Also See | New STAS Watertight Tipping Trailer | Sales Information: STAS Watertight saw tooth door operation 15000 Litre Water Tested Over Night Sales Options - Drainage board and 6 taps |
64 CuYds (48.9m3) | 29750kg |
| Also See | New Knapen Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 120 CuYds (91.7m3) | 27930kg | |
| Also See | 2015 Kraker Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 130 CuYds (99.4m3) | 27900kg | |
| Also See | 2021 Knapen Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 140 CuYds (107.0m3) | 27900kg | |
