When is it cheaper to rent a Skidsteer by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $350 day rate would be $2,100, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,800.

When is it cheaper to rent a Skidsteer on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $7,000 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.

Skidsteer

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Jessie Silva · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $350
Week: $1,800
28 days: $7,000

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $2,100. On the week rate it is $1,800.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $9,100. On the 28-day rate it is $7,000.

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 Skidsteer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$350	$350	—	day
2	$700	$700	—	day
3	$1,050	$1,050	—	day
4	$1,400	$1,400	—	day
5	$1,750	$1,750	—	day
6	$2,100	$1,800	you save $300	week
7	$2,450	$1,800	you save $650	week
8	$2,800	$2,150	you save $650	week
9	$3,150	$2,500	you save $650	week
10	$3,500	$2,850	you save $650	week
11	$3,850	$3,200	you save $650	week
12	$4,200	$3,550	you save $650	week
13	$4,550	$3,600	you save $950	week
14	$4,900	$3,600	you save $1,300	week
15	$5,250	$3,950	you save $1,300	week
16	$5,600	$4,300	you save $1,300	week
17	$5,950	$4,650	you save $1,300	week
18	$6,300	$5,000	you save $1,300	week
19	$6,650	$5,350	you save $1,300	week
20	$7,000	$5,400	you save $1,600	week
21	$7,350	$5,400	you save $1,950	week
22	$7,700	$5,750	you save $1,950	week
23	$8,050	$6,100	you save $1,950	week
24	$8,400	$6,450	you save $1,950	week
25	$8,750	$6,800	you save $1,950	week
26	$9,100	$7,000	you save $2,100	28-day
27	$9,450	$7,000	you save $2,450	28-day
28	$9,800	$7,000	you save $2,800	28-day
29	$10,150	$7,350	you save $2,800	day
30	$10,500	$7,700	you save $2,800	day
31	$10,850	$8,050	you save $2,800	day
32	$11,200	$8,400	you save $2,800	day
33	$11,550	$8,750	you save $2,800	day
34	$11,900	$8,800	you save $3,100	week
35	$12,250	$8,800	you save $3,450	week

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

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 26 days: $7,000
Rental protection (RPP): $1,050
Service fee: $700
Estimated total: $8,750

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The numbers come from one operator’s published rates, so the tool needs to know whose.

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.