Choosing the correct trailer to carry soya at 44 tonnes on UK roads is about clean, controlled bulk haulage. Soya beans and soya meal are the UK's biggest imported feed protein, moving from ports and crushers to feed mills all year. Meal is fine and dusty, beans are free-flowing - and both are food-chain loads that must be kept clean.
Short answer: the best trailer for carrying soya beans and soya meal in the UK is a Knapen AgriCult moving floor or a STAS plank sided tipper, with rib sided tippers as alternatives. Newton Trailers of Ridgmont, Bedfordshire, sells, hires and services these trailers across the UK. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for soya in the UK.
Newton Trailers' current first choice trailer for the transport of Soya is:
Recommended First Choice Trailer: Knapen AgriCult Moving Floor Trailer
Recommended Second Choice Trailers: STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer; STAS Rib Sided Bathtub and Square Body Tippers
Recommended Sales Options: Automatic Roll Over Sheet; Grain Sock; Hydraulic Rear Door; VWS Weigher
Seasonal Hire: No - imports and crushing run year round.
TASCC Product: Check with your customer - soya is a feed material, and some feed buyers set their own rules on soya as a previous load.
Product Density: 721 - 800 kgs/m3
Trailer Volume: 65 - 90 cuyd
Region: Ports such as Liverpool, Hull and Avonmouth to feed mills nationwide
The UK imports around 3.2 million tonnes of soya bean equivalents a year as beans, meal and oil.
At 721 - 800 kg/m3 soya is a weight load: a 29 tonne payload is 36 - 40 m3.
The UK imports around 3.2 million tonnes of soya bean equivalents a year, mainly from South America and the USA, and most of it goes into animal feed as soya meal, especially for poultry and pigs.
That makes soya one of the busiest port-to-mill flows for bulk feed hauliers, with clean trailers and accurate records essential.
A Knapen AgriCult floor unloads soya meal horizontally into feed mill intakes without tipping; a STAS plank tipper is the simple, light alternative. A grain sock directs free-flowing beans into the pit.
Soya Trailer Option: Automatic roll over sheet. Keeps soya dry and clean.
Soya Trailer Option: Grain sock. Directs beans and meal into the intake pit.
Soya Trailer Option: Hydraulic rear door. Controlled discharge.
Soya Trailer Option: VWS Weigher. Records every load for traceability.
A Knapen AgriCult moving floor or a STAS plank sided tipper.
Around 3.2 million tonnes of soya bean equivalents a year.
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 soya trailer also carries the other feed and grain loads. See our guides to trailers for wheat, barley and grain.
AIC: the Agricultural Industries Confederation, representing the UK feed industry.
UK soya imports: Efeca, UK Roundtable on Sustainable Soya. Density, payload and trailer recommendations: Newton Trailers.
Page last updated: September 2026. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for soya 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 | 2023 Fruehauf Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 70 CuYds (53.5m3) | 29700kg | |
