Choosing the correct trailer to carry hardcore at 44 tonnes on UK roads is a question of strength and payload. Hardcore - crushed concrete, brick and stone used as a sub-base - is heavy, sharp and abrasive. It moves in short, fast shuttles from crushers and quarries to building sites and road schemes, where every extra tonne per load counts.
Short answer: the best trailer for carrying hardcore in the UK is a steel or alloy aggregate tipping trailer or an aggregate moving floor, with a Fliegl push-off for sites where tipping is risky. Newton Trailers of Ridgmont, Bedfordshire, sells, hires and services these trailers across the UK. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for hardcore in the UK.
Newton Trailers' current first choice trailer for the transport of Hardcore is:
Recommended First Choice Trailer: Steel or Alloy Aggregate Tipping Trailer
Recommended Second Choice Trailers: Aggregate Moving Floor Trailer
Recommended Sales Options: Hardox Steel Body; Hydraulic Rear Door; Automatic Sheet System; VWS Weigher with Inclinometer
Seasonal Hire: Partly - construction peaks in spring and summer.
TASCC Product: No - hardcore is not a permissible load for TASCC-registered trailers, so keep it to non-TASCC trailers.
Product Density: 1,200 - 1,700 kgs/m3
Trailer Volume: 30 - 40 cuyd
Region: Nationwide - crushers and quarries to construction and infrastructure sites
Recycled construction and demolition waste supplied 61.6 million tonnes of the 238 million tonnes of aggregates used in Great Britain in 2023.
At 1,200 - 1,700 kg/m3 hardcore is a pure weight load: a 29 tonne payload is only 17 - 24 m3. A compact steel or alloy aggregate body is all you need.
Hardcore is one of the UK's great recycling success stories. Much of it is crushed concrete and brick from demolition, screened to size and used as sub-base under roads, car parks, floors and foundations. In 2023 recycled construction and demolition waste supplied 61.6 million tonnes of Great Britain's 238 million tonnes of aggregates - over a quarter.
Primary crushed rock and type 1 sub-base from quarries make up the rest. Either way, the haul is short and repetitive, and articulated trailers carrying 29 tonnes make a big difference to cost and traffic compared with 8 wheel rigids.
A steel aggregate tipper is the toughest hardcore trailer; an alloy aggregate tipper saves tare for more payload where the work is less punishing. An aggregate moving floor or a Fliegl push-off unloads without raising the body - safer on soft sites and under overhead cables, and able to place material accurately on road schemes.
Hardcore Trailer Option: Hardox steel body. Takes sharp, abrasive crushed concrete and brick.
Hardcore Trailer Option: Hydraulic rear door. Controlled spreading and discharge from the cab.
Hardcore Trailer Option: Automatic sheet system. Keeps dust and stones off the road.
Hardcore Trailer Option: VWS Weigher with inclinometer. Heavy hardcore overloads fast - a weigher keeps you legal.
A steel or alloy aggregate tipper or an aggregate moving floor, with a Fliegl push-off for sites where tipping is risky.
Around 29 tonnes in a 44 tonne articulated trailer, against around 20 tonnes in an 8 wheel rigid.
Much of it is. Recycled construction and demolition waste supplied 61.6 million tonnes of GB aggregates in 2023.
Steel for the toughest work; alloy saves tare where loading is gentler.
Yes. Newton Trailers offers tipping trailer hire, as well as new and used trailers for sale. Call 01525 872466.
A hardcore trailer also works on the other construction loads. See our guides to trailers for aggregate, road planings, sand and asphalt.
Mineral Products Association: the trade body for UK aggregates.
GB aggregates supply 2023: Mineral Products Association. Density, payload and trailer recommendations: Newton Trailers.
Page last updated: September 2026. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for hardcore in the UK.
| Best Match | Options | Volume | Payload | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | STAS Aggregate Tipping Trailer | 41 CuYds (31.3m3) | 29840kg | |
| Used | 2015 Benalu Aggregate Tipping Trailer | 40 CuYds (30.6m3) | 30550kg | |
| Also See | New STAS Steel Body Aggregate Tipping Trailer | 39 CuYds (29.8m3) | 29520kg | |
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| Also See | 2017 Fruehauf Aggregate Tipping Trailer | 40 CuYds (30.6m3) | 30040kg | |
| Also See | New STAS Aggregate Tipping Trailer | 43 CuYds (32.9m3) | 29700kg | |
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