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.
Density, payload and trailer recommendations: Newton Trailers.
Page last updated: September 2026. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for filter cake in the UK.
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