United Kingdom
Built to order for the United Kingdom
Catering trailers, mobile kitchens and welfare units, specified against your menu or your site, checked against the UK approval route before you pay, and delivered with the file that gets them registered.
Two things decide whether a unit is worth buying in this country. Whether it can be registered, and whether it was built to something you can hold a maker to. Both are settled here before a price is quoted rather than after a unit has landed.
The approval route in Great Britain is Individual Vehicle Approval, or European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval where the manufacturer holds it. Which one applies to your unit is established at the start, in writing, with the authority and the document named.
Getting it registered in the United Kingdom
Supplying a new category O trailer for road use in Great Britain without a certificate in effect is a criminal offence, and the certificate is an EU Certificate of Conformity, a national small series certificate or an Individual Vehicle Approval certificate. Which route applies to your unit is established in writing before you pay, with the authority and the documents named. The route for United Kingdom, with the regulator's own source and the date it was read.
The range
What we build for the United Kingdom
Welfare units for sale
A welfare unit for sale here is built new to your specification rather than refurbished out of a hire...
See the rangeCatering trailers for sale
The catering trailers for sale here are built to an order around the menu you actually serve, because the equipment schedule and the electrical...
See the rangeCoffee trailers for sale
A coffee trailer for sale here is drawn around the machine, the grinder and the water treatment first, because those three decide the counter length,...
See the rangePizza trailers for sale
A pizza trailer for sale here is designed around the oven, because the oven decides the point loads in the floor, the extraction rate above it and...
See the rangeToilet trailers for sale
A toilet trailer for sale here is specified around the number of people it serves in a day and the interval between services, because those two...
See the rangeMobile shower units for sale
A mobile shower unit for sale here is specified from the hot water outward, because recovery rate is the number that decides how many people can wash...
See the rangePortable toilet suppliers
A hire operator looking for portable toilet suppliers needs a source it can order from twice rather than a listing it can buy from once, and the...
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What is different here
What is true here and not in Australia. 7 things that decide a specification in this market and do not apply in the other one, each with the instrument or the authority it was read from.
Decides the unit
01The welfare duty names functions and refuses to name numbers
Schedule 2 to the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 requires suitable and sufficient sanitary conveniences, washing facilities, drinking water, changing rooms and rest facilities. It gives no ratio: no closets per worker, no basins per shift, no square metres per head. It is given effect by three separate regulations naming the client, the principal contractor and the contractor, and none of them discharges the others.
What it changes. A buyer comparing two units on length has no way to tell whether either discharges the duty, which is why a specification here starts at the crew and the shift pattern rather than at a body size.
Read from CDM 2015, Schedule 2 2026-09-05
Two chapters of the hygiene annex were lifted off a mobile unit. The rest were not
Chapter I of Annex II to Regulation 852/2004 sets the general requirements for food premises and excludes premises specified in Chapter III. Chapter II does the same for rooms where food is prepared. Chapter III, the one written for movable premises, is nine short paragraphs. Nothing lifts Chapters IV to XII, so equipment, food waste, water supply, personal hygiene and training bind a trailer exactly as they bind a restaurant.
What it changes. The brevity of Chapter III reads as permission and is not. The specific obligations that decide a build sit in the chapters that are rarely quoted, which is why the water, the waste and the wash up are settled on the drawing.
Read from Regulation 852/2004, Annex II 2026-09-07
Decides the business
03Supplying the trailer without a certificate in effect is a criminal offence, not a paperwork delay
Under the Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020, supplying a recordable trailer for use on a road without an EU Certificate of Conformity, a national small series certificate or an IVA certificate having effect is an offence. The penalty is an unlimited fine in England and Wales, or up to three months imprisonment for an individual, or both. For a large trailer, defined by unladen weight over 1,020 kg or any semi-trailer built to carry goods, regulation 23 requires the supplier to notify DVSA, provide the pertinent information and obtain consent before supply, and consent is withheld until import VAT and customs duty are paid.
What it changes. It puts the approval route on the critical path rather than beside it. A unit that arrives before its certificate does cannot lawfully be handed over, which is why the route is established before the specification is frozen rather than after the build.
Read from The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020 2026-09-08
Decides the operation
04Who may tow it was decided by the year they passed their test
A licence obtained before 1 January 1997 usually carries a combined vehicle and trailer entitlement up to 8,250 kg maximum authorised mass. A licence obtained from that date covers a trailer up to 3,500 kg, which is category BE, and anything heavier needs category C1+E with a provisional licence, a lorry theory test and a practical test. Six of the twenty three units we specify sit exactly on the 3,500 kg line.
What it changes. The plated mass is a licensing decision about the buyer, not only an engineering one about the trailer. It is settled before a specification is frozen, because a unit the buyer cannot tow is of no use to them.
Read from GOV.UK, towing with a car 2026-09-07
Three obligations land on the operator inside 2027, from three departments
The micro firm exemption from workplace recycling separation in England ends on 31 March 2027, and the guidance names construction sites and the contractors' food and packaging waste on them. Martyn's Law can commence from 3 April 2027 at the earliest, after which an event expecting 800 or more becomes a qualifying event carrying the enhanced requirements. The deposit return scheme for England and Northern Ireland starts on 1 October 2027.
What it changes. None of the three asks anything of a trailer, and two of them change what the operator standing in it has to do. Knowing which is which before ordering is worth more than any option on the list.
Read from The obligation timetable, with each instrument and read date 2026-09-09
The deposit scheme names a coffee shop in the exclusions, not in the definition
A groceries retailer under SI 2025/67 is a supermarket, grocery store, convenience store or newsagent. The definition then excludes premises whose main business is takeaway, a coffee shop whether or not food is consumed there, and a hospitality venue such as a bar, restaurant or club. Only a groceries retailer with MRP premises has to operate a return point, and MRP premises exclude a vehicle that is not permanently stationary.
What it changes. The trade is bracing for a reverse vending machine on every counter. What most units will actually need is a deposit charged, an opt-out decision, and two sentences displayed where a customer chooses.
Read from The Deposit Scheme for Drinks Containers Regulations 2025 2026-09-09
Registration is free, cannot be refused, and buys nobody a look at the unit
The Food Standards Agency says a new food business must register with the local authority at least 28 days before trading, that registration is free, and that it cannot be refused. A business operating in more than one location registers each premises with the authority that premises sits in. There is no application to approve, no plan to submit and no inspection before the doors open.
What it changes. Nobody official looks at the build before it trades, so the first time the unit is assessed it is already serving customers and the assessment becomes a public score. Everything structural has to be right on day one, because nothing checks it before then.
Read from Getting ready to start your food business, Food Standards Agency 2026-09-09
Tell us what it has to do
Menu, or site headcount. Either is enough to start a specification.