When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat T590 Skid Steer Track Loader by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $325 day rate would be $975, but the weekly rate caps it at $950.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat T590 Skid Steer Track Loader on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,900 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.

Bobcat T590 Skid Steer Track Loader

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Pat Palmieri · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $325
Week: $950
28 days: $2,900

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $975. On the week rate it is $950.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $7,150. On the 28-day rate it is $2,900.

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 Bobcat T590 Skid Steer Track Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$325	$325	—	day
2	$650	$650	—	day
3	$975	$950	you save $25	week
4	$1,300	$950	you save $350	week
5	$1,625	$950	you save $675	week
6	$1,950	$950	you save $1,000	week
7	$2,275	$950	you save $1,325	week
8	$2,600	$1,275	you save $1,325	week
9	$2,925	$1,600	you save $1,325	week
10	$3,250	$1,900	you save $1,350	week
11	$3,575	$1,900	you save $1,675	week
12	$3,900	$1,900	you save $2,000	week
13	$4,225	$1,900	you save $2,325	week
14	$4,550	$1,900	you save $2,650	week
15	$4,875	$2,225	you save $2,650	week
16	$5,200	$2,550	you save $2,650	week
17	$5,525	$2,850	you save $2,675	week
18	$5,850	$2,850	you save $3,000	week
19	$6,175	$2,850	you save $3,325	week
20	$6,500	$2,850	you save $3,650	week
21	$6,825	$2,850	you save $3,975	week
22	$7,150	$2,900	you save $4,250	28-day
23	$7,475	$2,900	you save $4,575	28-day
24	$7,800	$2,900	you save $4,900	28-day
25	$8,125	$2,900	you save $5,225	28-day
26	$8,450	$2,900	you save $5,550	28-day
27	$8,775	$2,900	you save $5,875	28-day
28	$9,100	$2,900	you save $6,200	28-day
29	$9,425	$3,225	you save $6,200	day
30	$9,750	$3,550	you save $6,200	day
31	$10,075	$3,850	you save $6,225	week
32	$10,400	$3,850	you save $6,550	week
33	$10,725	$3,850	you save $6,875	week
34	$11,050	$3,850	you save $7,200	week
35	$11,375	$3,850	you save $7,525	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.