Newton Trailers is the largest supplier of tipping trailers and walking floor trailers to carry Wheat in the UK. Wheat is one the UK’s most important agricultural crops, with around 14 million tonnes produced annually and close to year round availability of home grown products for retailers.
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Newton Trailers current first choice trailer for the transport of Wheat is:
Recommended First Choice Trailer: STAS 71 cu yd Tipping Trailer
Recommended Second Choice Trailer: Knapen 90 cu yd Agri Floor Trailer
Recommended Sales Options: Internal Body Camera and Inclinometer
Recommended Parts
Seasonal Hire: Yes seasonal rush but then year round store to mill.
Tascc Product: Yes
Product Density: 600kg/m3
Trailer Volume: 71 cuyd
A tipping trailer should be able to achieve a payload of over 29.5 tonnes of Wheat and a specialist Knapen moving floor is not far behind at 29.2 tonnes. If you use 14 million tonnes annual production this is 475,000 bulk loads per annum for UK hauliers to chew on! If you say 4 loads per day in the season and 250 days transport per annum then there is a need for about 469 UK bulk tipping trailers or walking floor trailers dedicated to carrying this product. This is a bit naive as a guesstimate - as the season is probably shorter and the loads per day may be all over the shop. There is a strong possibility that the UK will move to 46 tonne soon so perhaps a 75 cuyd trailer will be the best purchase?
Wheat: Barley, Wheat, Oats, Rye are seasonal products. However they are now moved to vast professional stores where they are stored at correct moisture levels to prevent spoilage. Historically every farm and village had their own large barn for threshing and storing. Economies of scale mean bigger regional storage centres and logistics are normal. This trend will continue. Previously small scale haulage was used. Logistics plays to larger professional haulage companies. Combine harvesting and professional farm contracting has decreased the time to harvest. It is becoming possible to harvest 500 ha in 24 hours. This puts pressure on the farm contractor to clear the field to the nearest Wheat store. It is becoming possible to move from field to HGV at the roadside to increase capacity and efficiency. Arguably Agricultural Tractor and Trailer combinations regularly seen in the UK are operating beyond the legal masses and speeds. However this anomaly continues and will continue until DVSA takes it's enforcement roll seriously. The problem would be a doubling in the requirement of labour and tractor and trailers. This occurs in other European countries and is curious in a strong health and safety culture of the UK that this is ignored by police and DVSA. This swerves the logical current choice of trailers for Wheat transport in the UK.
As a TASCC product Wheat must only be hauled in TASCC registered trailers. It means that two separate fleets of bulk tipping trailers runs in the UK. Clean TASCC and 'dirty' non TASCC.
We can also offer moving floor trailers for Wheat logistics. The normal trailer to carry wheat at 44 tonne in the UK is an aluminium bulker tipping trailer. There is also the possibility, as in Europe, to carry grains in moving floors. Obviously the moving floor offers advantages of horizontal discharge removing the dangers of tipping in agricultural conditions. The trailer can also carry palletised or bagged products or silage or straw bales.
There are new products for carrying agricultural goods such as Wheat entering the market. Knapen have teamed up with Krone to produce smaller volume trailers aimed at the 'chaser' agricultural field to store market. This product is manufactured for Newton Trailers by Knapen and is called the Krone KX 770 and is getting a lot of traction. In Europe walking floor trailers are used with large flotation tyres to drive onto the field surface to chase – collecting maize, Wheat or root crops. Often instead of barn doors they have hydraulic door and automatic sheet systems to speed up loading and unloading. For use in the UK we would team up with VWS Weighing systems to give you accurate weights of the Wheat loaded and cameras in the body showing you the loaded state. https://www.vwsltd.co.uk/ This means that you will travel down the road with a correct legal road weight every time and also know the loading of the material in the trailer is correct without getting the driver out to climb up the catwalk. An additional benefit of this collaboration between Newton and VWS is that you will know from a computer or phone where all your trailers are right now, where they loaded plus or minus 10 meters in the field or store all with stored online pictures of the load or empty trailer. Amazing.
Alternative products:
If you are hauling Wheat using an agricultural tractor from the field very locally then there are excellent specialist products available in the UK. They will have large flotation tyres which are more soil friendly.
We like and recommend for Wheat:
Larrington Trailers: we like them for their high quality and thoughtful design. They also understand and respect the limited Legal Weights for an Agricultural Tractor Trailer from Field to Store before moving to the Higher Legal Weights offered by an HGV Tractor Trailer
Larrington Trailers: we like them for their speciality and often cutting edge innovation.
http://www.larringtontrailers.com/site/Products/Box-Loading-Trailers/Wing-Lift-Box-Loader
We work and supply with most of the UK’s largest Wheat hauliers and traders:
And just in case all this reading has made you hungry as much as I love selling tipping trailers I love sourdough bread ( married to a reformed vegetarian – what can you do?)
So why don't you give up on tipping trailers and just cook a loaf? We recommend Farmhouse On Boone to start you off:
https://www.farmhouseonboone.com/beginners-sourdough-bread-recipe/
You could always use flour from one of our lovely customers Wessex Mill:
Click Here https://wessexmill.co.uk/shop/bread-flour/
Wheat Song: insert MP3 here.
Wheat Recipe
Wheat Clothing
Favourite Wheat Clothing:
If you really know your Wheat you could try this stylish T shirt: Click Here
| Best Match | Options | Volume | Payload | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Used | 2021 STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | New STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29740kg | |
| Also See | 2014 Fruehauf Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 70 CuYds (53.5m3) | 29700kg | |
| Also See | 2019 Fruehauf Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 70 CuYds (53.5m3) | 29700kg | |
| Also See | 2017 Fruehauf Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 70 CuYds (53.5m3) | 29700kg | |
| Also See | New STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29650kg | |
| Also See | New STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29650kg | |
