When is it cheaper to rent a 2017 Bobcat T770 Trackloader by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $499 day rate would be $1,497, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,200.

When is it cheaper to rent a 2017 Bobcat T770 Trackloader on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,800 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

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.

2017 Bobcat T770 Trackloader

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Maurice Brown · Loaders - Compact Track

Day: $499
Week: $1,200
28 days: $3,800

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $1,497. On the week rate it is $1,200.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $10,978. On the 28-day rate it is $3,800.

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 2017 Bobcat T770 Trackloader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$499	$499	—	day
2	$998	$998	—	day
3	$1,497	$1,200	you save $297	week
4	$1,996	$1,200	you save $796	week
5	$2,495	$1,200	you save $1,295	week
6	$2,994	$1,200	you save $1,794	week
7	$3,493	$1,200	you save $2,293	week
8	$3,992	$1,699	you save $2,293	week
9	$4,491	$2,198	you save $2,293	week
10	$4,990	$2,400	you save $2,590	week
11	$5,489	$2,400	you save $3,089	week
12	$5,988	$2,400	you save $3,588	week
13	$6,487	$2,400	you save $4,087	week
14	$6,986	$2,400	you save $4,586	week
15	$7,485	$2,899	you save $4,586	week
16	$7,984	$3,398	you save $4,586	week
17	$8,483	$3,600	you save $4,883	week
18	$8,982	$3,600	you save $5,382	week
19	$9,481	$3,600	you save $5,881	week
20	$9,980	$3,600	you save $6,380	week
21	$10,479	$3,600	you save $6,879	week
22	$10,978	$3,800	you save $7,178	28-day
23	$11,477	$3,800	you save $7,677	28-day
24	$11,976	$3,800	you save $8,176	28-day
25	$12,475	$3,800	you save $8,675	28-day
26	$12,974	$3,800	you save $9,174	28-day
27	$13,473	$3,800	you save $9,673	28-day
28	$13,972	$3,800	you save $10,172	28-day
29	$14,471	$4,299	you save $10,172	day
30	$14,970	$4,798	you save $10,172	day
31	$15,469	$5,000	you save $10,469	week
32	$15,968	$5,000	you save $10,968	week
33	$16,467	$5,000	you save $11,467	week
34	$16,966	$5,000	you save $11,966	week
35	$17,465	$5,000	you save $12,465	week

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

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

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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.