Choosing the correct trailer to carry meal at 44 tonnes on UK roads means carrying a fine, dusty and often pungent feed ingredient cleanly. Fish meal and other feed meals move from processing plants and ports to feed mills, and customers are strict about what has been carried before.
Short answer: the best trailer for carrying bulk meal in the UK is a STAS plank sided, rib sided bathtub or square body tipper, with a Knapen AgriCult moving floor as the alternative. Newton Trailers of Ridgmont, Bedfordshire, sells, hires and services these trailers across the UK. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for meal in the UK.
Newton Trailers' current first choice trailer for the transport of Meal is:
Recommended First Choice Trailer: STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer
Recommended Second Choice Trailers: STAS Rib Sided Bathtub and Square Body Tippers; Knapen AgriCult Moving Floor
Recommended Sales Options: Sealed Body; Automatic Roll Over Sheet; Grain Sock; VWS Weigher
Seasonal Hire: No - feed manufacture runs year round.
TASCC Product: Check with your customer - TASCC status depends on the type of meal, and many feed buyers set their own previous-load rules.
Product Density: 500 - 600 kgs/m3
Trailer Volume: 65 - 90 cuyd
Region: Fishmeal plants at Grimsby, Aberdeen and Shetland and ports to feed mills
UK fishmeal is made at specialist plants including Grimsby, Aberdeen and Shetland.
At 500 - 600 kg/m3 meal fills a trailer before legal weight: a 29 tonne payload needs 48 - 58 m3.
Fish meal is made from fish processing by-products and whole fish at specialist UK plants including Grimsby, Aberdeen and Shetland, and is used mainly in aquaculture and pig and poultry feed.
Many feed customers set rules on previous loads - check your customers' requirements before carrying meal and other feeds in the same trailer.
A sealed plank tipper keeps fine meal in and discharges cleanly; a Knapen AgriCult floor unloads horizontally into intakes.
Meal Trailer Option: Sealed body. Keeps fine dusty meal in the trailer.
Meal Trailer Option: Automatic roll over sheet. Keeps meal dry.
Meal Trailer Option: Grain sock. Clean discharge into intakes.
Meal Trailer Option: VWS Weigher. Records every load.
A STAS plank sided or rib sided tipper with a sealed body, or a Knapen AgriCult floor.
At specialist plants including Grimsby, Aberdeen and Shetland.
Yes. Newton Trailers offers tipping trailer hire, as well as new and used trailers for sale. Call 01525 872466.
A meal trailer also carries the other feed ingredients. See our guides to trailers for wheat, grain and beet pulp.
UK fishmeal plants: FAO, citing Seafish. Density, payload and trailer recommendations: Newton Trailers.
Page last updated: September 2026. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for meal in the UK.
| Best Match | Options | Volume | Payload | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29650kg | |
| Used | 2021 STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | 2022 STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | 2022 STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | 2024 STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | 2022 STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | 2023 STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | New STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29650kg | |
