Choosing the correct trailer to carry fines at 44 tonnes on UK roads means handling a dusty, heavy, abrasive and sometimes sticky load. Fines are the small material screened out at waste and recycling sites - soil, grit, glass, ash and organic dust from trommels and screens. They move from transfer stations and MRFs to landfill, restoration and further processing.
Short answer: the best trailer for carrying fines in the UK is an aggregate or heavy duty waste moving floor, or a Hardox steel aggregate tipper. Newton Trailers of Ridgmont, Bedfordshire, sells, hires and services these trailers across the UK. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for fines in the UK.
Newton Trailers' current first choice trailer for the transport of Fines is:
Recommended First Choice Trailer: Aggregate or Heavy Duty Waste Moving Floor
Recommended Second Choice Trailers: Knapen Recycling or Biomass Moving Floor; Steel Aggregate Tipping Trailer
Recommended Sales Options: Heavy Duty Floor Planks; Hydraulic Rear Door; Automatic Roll Over Sheet; VWS Weigher
Seasonal Hire: No - screening runs year round.
TASCC Product: No - fines are not a permissible load for TASCC-registered trailers, so keep them to non-TASCC trailers.
Product Density: 800 - 1,400 kgs/m3
Trailer Volume: 45 - 90 cuyd
Region: Transfer stations and MRFs to landfill, restoration and processing sites
Fines come from every waste screening line, so there is no separate national tonnage.
Fines can be dense: wet trommel fines quickly reach a 29 tonne payload. A weigher keeps loads legal.
Fines are the hardest part of the waste stream to recover. Whether they qualify for the lower rate of landfill tax - £8.65 a tonne from April 2026, against £130.75 for the standard rate - depends on testing, so operators work hard to clean them up and find reuse routes.
That makes fines a steady, dense and dusty flow between screening sites, landfill and restoration projects.
A heavy duty waste or aggregate moving floor walks dusty, gritty fines out horizontally without the hang-ups of a tipper. A Hardox steel aggregate tipper is the simple alternative for dry fines.
Fines Trailer Option: Heavy duty floor planks. Resist grit and glass in fines.
Fines Trailer Option: Hydraulic rear door. Controlled discharge from the cab.
Fines Trailer Option: Automatic roll over sheet. Keeps dust off the road.
Fines Trailer Option: VWS Weigher. Wet fines are heavy.
An aggregate or heavy duty waste moving floor, or a Hardox steel aggregate tipper.
Qualifying fines can go at the lower rate of £8.65 a tonne from April 2026; others pay the standard £130.75.
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 fines trailer also works on the other waste and recycling loads. See our guides to trailers for RDF, glass and aggregate.
These UK trade bodies and associations represent, regulate or market the loads on this page:
National Federation of Demolition Contractors (NFDC): the trade body for the UK demolition industry.
Environmental Services Association (ESA): the trade body for the UK resource and waste management industry.
Mineral Products Association (MPA): the trade association for aggregates, asphalt, cement, concrete, lime and other mineral products.
Landfill tax from 1 April 2026: Stewarts. Density, payload and trailer recommendations: Newton Trailers.
Page last updated: September 2026. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for fines in the UK.
| Best Match | Options | Volume | Payload | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | STAS Steel Body Aggregate Tipping Trailer | 39 CuYds (29.8m3) | 29520kg | |
| Used | 2021 Knapen Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 130 CuYds (99.4m3) | 28050kg | |
| Also See | New STAS Steel Body Aggregate Tipping Trailer | 39 CuYds (29.8m3) | 29240kg | |
| Also See | New Knapen Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 120 CuYds (91.7m3) | 27930kg | |
| Also See | 2021 Knapen Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 140 CuYds (107.0m3) | 27900kg | |
| Also See | 2015 Kraker Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 130 CuYds (99.4m3) | 27900kg | |
| Also See | 2022 Knapen Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 130 CuYds (99.4m3) | 27900kg | |
| Also See | New Knapen Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 130 CuYds (99.4m3) | 27850kg | |
