Innovations – Buffaload Logistics & Facilities

Buffaload innovations

Lifting floor double deck trailers

Our double-deck trailers offer up to 60% additional capacity compared to a conventional single-deck trailer. High pallet capacity not only reduces road miles but also minimises vehicle requirements and therefore fuel consumption and tyre wear – all of which contributes to lower CO² emissions.

A single primary contract using double deck trailers saved one customer 1,472 deliveries per year

Bay conversions and the Baymaster

A Buffaload double deck trailer can carry 60% more load than a single deck trailer

Buffaload Facilities Team offer a service to adapt bays to accommodate double deck trailers for companies wishing to benefit from the extra load capacity. Contact us for information.

We also offer our own innovation, the Baymaster. These are specially modified double deck trailers that will fit on standard single deck bays if they cannot be converted to accommodate double decks.

Tractor units fuelled by BioLNG

Buffaload were early adopters in cleaner fuel technology. More than 60% of our fleet has now transitioned from diesel‑fuelled tractor units to LNG.

These gas powered tractors give an immediate carbon emissions reduction at tailpipe of 25% compared with a standard Euro 6 diesel unit, with no compromise on loads or speed when running on LNG.

In 2025 we began the transition to our own supply of sustainable BioLNG which will reduce the carbon emissions once again, our calculations suggest up to 70% reduction of CO² at tailpipe.

When coupled with Buffaload Double Deck trailers this emissions reduction figure increases to 45%

Diesel free electric fridges

Using a generator which connects to the engine’s PTO reduces fuel consumption and emissions for TFUs

In temperature controlled haulage the refrigerated trailers have traditionally been chilled by fridges run on diesel. Buffaload has been running trials on systems which gather surplus power generated by the truck engine and transforms it into electricity to run the trailer fridge.

Each vehicle running with a gas fuel truck and a generator will have removed the pollution of two diesel engines from the UK cold chain.

All electric vans

As part of our ongoing mission to achieve the lowest possible carbon footprint across our business, we have bought a fleet of all electric vans to use as support vehicles.

All the running around at Buffaload is done using these no emissions, no noise vehicles. They are our green workhorses.

Zero emissions, zero engine noise, 100% electric