Newton specialises in the HIRE of all makes of special vehicles. We have manufactured to our design customised tipping trailers, walking floors, platforms and curtainsiders.
Newton Hire is the leading walking floor hire and tipping trailer hire company in the United Kingdom & Ireland. Big is not necessarily beautiful – we know that - but - in this small specialist market it certainly helps to have been at it a while. For our part we have been in bulk trailer sales since the 1960's. We have a lot of T-shirts pinned to the wall. Each trailer is an individual and no-one has sold more tipping trailers or floors in the UK than Newton. This informs our decisions on the hire side of our company. It is our aim to use this experience to get it right for you.
We try and keep our hire trailers fresh - under 3 years old. Our trailers are checked through our own workshops before each hire. We have our own VOSA Test Lane on site.
A typical tipping trailer for sugar beet would be a 44 Tonne compliant Fruehauf 70 cubic yard triaxle on full air, lift axle, roll over sheet, and PM on Board weighing system weighing 6295kgs. Therefore you should achieve a payload in excess of 29.5 tonnes.
If you require a TASCC quality trailer you will get one from us with the relevant paperwork for your control systems.
Why then have I hired an older trailer? At the time of your discussions the Newton Hire manager will let you know what trailer to expect. Different horses for different courses……. If you are only hiring for one week in the middle of harvest you will get the old nag next to the gate. If you give us good warning we will make a very lovely trailer available. It is all in the conversation – please talk to us – we are very nice people - really.
Fourweek minimum. One week notice of return of trailer. Understand the Hire Contract. Sign the contract. Keep to the contract. Make sure you earn lots of money from using our trailer and come back happy next year.
Old dogs keep us poor and upset our customers and will in turn upset your customers. Believe us we have the T shirt! If a job is worth doing - do it well.
Courtesy and help of course. We do expect you to have arranged and managed your collection time with Newton Hire prior to your arrival. If you are experiencing last minute delays please telephone to warn us. It will take about an hour to match your tractor unit to our trailer so please allow for this.
It will require daylight to take the check out and check in video. There are often last minute fafs which occur and may require workshop assistance – light bulbs etc. There is also the paper work.
Workshop operations are open 6 am to 4:30 pm.
Office hours are 8:00 am to 5:30 pm Monday to Friday.
We open Saturday mornings 8:00 am to 10:00 am.
Please allow 1 hour duration for the checking in and checking out process. Please arrange your collection and drop off by discussion with the Newton Hire Manager.
We do reserve the right to refuse drop off and collection outside of these hours. It is unfair to turn up at closing time and expect our staff to attend. Please call ahead if delayed to discuss the possibility of an extension. Please remember we require 7 days notice of the return of a trailer and this is the right time to discuss matters.
An automatic roll over sheet is a sheeting system that can roll itself over the trailer and cover the trailer or at the press of a button roll itself open.
They are powered by a suzie from the tractor unit battery. We do hire trailers with automatic sheets. They are still a special request. Typically they cost £3500.00 fitted and therefore there is a supplementary cost for these on a Newton Hire trailer. This does present the problem of YOU supplying a tractor unit with the Anderson Lead coupling to your battery pack. Due to the sensitive nature of Tractor Unit electronics we cannot connect to your battery pack for you. We have too many T shirts for blowing apart Tractor Unit systems. An automatic sheet system is becoming a common element in haulage operations. It does weigh 200 kgs more than a manual system. It does mean that each of the tractor units you swap onto our hire trailer will need to be provided by YOU with Anderson connections.There are links on our Resources website demonstrating an automatic sheet in operation.
Our Parts Center can supply Anderson Cables and all the necessary leads that you will require. You can always call and have this dispatched to you in advance of the hire date so that you can use the trailer sheet system straight away.
We provide a good clean legal trailer at the time of check out. The maintenance side of the trailer is very important to us and will be discussed fully with you in your discussions with our Newton Hire manager. It is covered fully in our Hire Contract with you. The terms and conditions of hire are on our hire pages Terms and Conditions tab.
Basically:
You pay for the 6 weekly inspections. It is your duty under your CPC and O licence to perform legal daily checks on the trailer – some of which are listed on your contract with us. There are other daily checks more specific to a tipping trailer or walking floor that you must perform. These are listed on your contract.
Fair wear and tear – no. We are reasonable people. Damage and unauthorised changes to the trailer - yes you will have to pay. We take pictures and video of you and the trailer before you leave the yard. That is why we require you to be here in daylight and also to allow an hour for the process of checking out and checking back in. We will send to you the video before and the video after. Missing items and damage will need to be signed for and paid for. It is all in the contract. Unlike some hire companies it is not part of our business plan to systematically take profits out of repairs to end of contract hire trailers.
Routine safety is down to your CPC and O licence. The trailer will be inspected and safe when it is checked out at Newton Hire centre by you. The brakes and friction material should be sufficient for the hire length you have discussed. Obviously on going hire will lead to brakes and friction material being inspected under YOUR 6 weekly inspections. These will flag up routine maintenance. Call our Newton Hire manager for an order number for any works required as part of your contract.
It is important for you and for us to avoid brake problems. Modern disc brakes are excellent when well maintained. Please make sure that the calipers are working well each day. Lean over the tyre, grab the caliper and make sure it moves easily in the hand. Simple.
It’s your fault you idiot. Tyres are part of a daily inspection routine. You should not be surprised by worn out tyres. We provide good tyres when it leaves here. All you need to do is call our Newton Hire manager to arrange tyres to be replaced at one of our approved agents before tyres become dangerous. This is a serious matter and you should not ever get to the point of worn out tyres on our hire trailer.
Call our Hire Manager and discuss the replacement. It maybe that tyres were excluded from the hire arrangement in agreement with yourselves. Either way call and discuss with Newton Hire.
The trailer must be insured by you for its full value by you.
As with all failures this is where the fun starts. 7 pm on a rainy Saturday night on the M25.
YOU are responsible for all failures when under the hire contract and for getting yourself out of the problem.
We do not have a service network nor do we have a service van. Please call us if a problem does occur and we will work very hard to understand the problem and suggest people in your area that will help to sort out that problem. Our experience of service networks for trailers is that they rarely have the right knowledge/ staff/ training/ parts to sort the problem when it occurs. It always comes down to a scramble. You can imagine over the years the number of times we have been told that our fffing trailer has failed only to find that it is nothing to do with a failure but down to the driver running it into a wall etc. These are very hot moments in our relationship with you. Mostly they come and go by mature discussion. Other times it ends in divorce.
We will only pay for faults once we have supplied a Newton Hire order number. There are clearly no blank cheques. This all sounds very one sided – we are very reasonable and we do actually like to maintain good long relationships with all our customers. We have studied the usual service support maps on the back page of Manufacturer pamphlets and often rung them. They are usually worse than useless when you call the number from the M25. We will help as much as is in our ability on these occaisions but failures do happen. Please do remember that these trailers are bespoke, handmade in small number- type products. They are not mass produced Ford cars. Therefore they must be checked daily and before every use or work shift for defects – especially running gear. We find that most failures are caused by driver neglect. Please use our Resource page on our website for Safety Manuals; and maintenance of the items on your trailer. Most manuals are generic and even if it has a Fruehauf label on it then the safety and maintenance will be applicable to other makes of trailer.
‘Course they do. The grass is only greener on the other side because of the amount of manure spread there. We prefer to work honestly with you – everyone will promise you beer and cake – it is what you do each and every day that actually counts.
These are becoming a commonly required part of trailer operations. However we do not currently have hire trailers with cameras on them. There are so many types and the cab viewing systems so varied that whatever we fitted on the trailer would most likely be incompatible with your tractor unit. We therefore currently allow you to fit your own camera system neatly to our hire trailer by individual negotiation with our hire manager.
These Terms and Conditions of Hire in conjunction with the content overleaf represent an agreement ("the Agreement") made between Newton Trailers Limited having its registered office at Station Yard, Station Road, Harlington, Beds, LU5 6LD or any associated or subsidiary company it may nominate ("the Company" which expression where the context admits includes the Company's successors in title) of the one part and the person(s) specified overleaf as the Hirer ("the Hirer") of the other part, WHEREBY IT IS AGREED:-
