Break-even duration

Equipment rents on three rates — a day rate, a week rate and a 28-day rate — and the cheapest one changes as the job runs long. This finds the two days where it changes, on a real listing’s real published rates.

Ford F650 Dump Truck with Chipper 12XPC Combo

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Cristal Flawless · Dump Truck

Day
$550
Week
$2,579
28 days
$7,755

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $2,750. On the week rate it is $2,579.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $12,100. On the 28-day rate it is $7,755.

The working

Whole weeks bill at the week rate; the leftover days bill at the day rate but never add up to more than one extra week; and a whole 28-day cycle never costs more than the 28-day rate. That is the rule, applied one day at a time.

Rental price by duration for Ford F650 Dump Truck with Chipper 12XPC Combo, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$550$550—day
2$1,100$1,100—day
3$1,650$1,650—day
4$2,200$2,200—day
5$2,750$2,579you save $171week
6$3,300$2,579you save $721week
7$3,850$2,579you save $1,271week
8$4,400$3,129you save $1,271week
9$4,950$3,679you save $1,271week
10$5,500$4,229you save $1,271week
11$6,050$4,779you save $1,271week
12$6,600$5,158you save $1,442week
13$7,150$5,158you save $1,992week
14$7,700$5,158you save $2,542week
15$8,250$5,708you save $2,542week
16$8,800$6,258you save $2,542week
17$9,350$6,808you save $2,542week
18$9,900$7,358you save $2,542week
19$10,450$7,737you save $2,713week
20$11,000$7,737you save $3,263week
21$11,550$7,737you save $3,813week
22$12,100$7,755you save $4,34528-day
23$12,650$7,755you save $4,89528-day
24$13,200$7,755you save $5,44528-day
25$13,750$7,755you save $5,99528-day
26$14,300$7,755you save $6,54528-day
27$14,850$7,755you save $7,09528-day
28$15,400$7,755you save $7,64528-day
29$15,950$8,305you save $7,645day
30$16,500$8,855you save $7,645day
31$17,050$9,405you save $7,645day
32$17,600$9,955you save $7,645day
33$18,150$10,334you save $7,816week
34$18,700$10,334you save $8,366week
35$19,250$10,334you save $8,916week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 22 days
$7,755
Rental protection (RPP)
$1,163.25
Service fee
$775.50
Estimated total
$9,693.75

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Where these numbers come from

The rates are the operator’s own, read live from their listing. The arithmetic is the same best-price billing engine that produces 2Quip invoices — not a second copy written for this page — run on the industry-standard terms: a 28-day cycle, whole weeks at the week rate, leftover days at the day rate capped at one more week.

An operator can agree different terms on an individual rental, and a long rental bills per 28-day cycle rather than in one lump. So treat this as what the rate card says, and the operator’s quote as what you are agreeing to.