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.
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 | 140 CuYds (107.0m3) | 27900kg | |
| 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 | 2015 Kraker Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 130 CuYds (99.4m3) | 27900kg | |
| Also See | New Knapen Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 130 CuYds (99.4m3) | 27850kg | |
| Also See | New Knapen Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 130 CuYds (99.4m3) | 27850kg | |
| Also See | New Knapen Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 140 CuYds (107.0m3) | 27770kg | |
