When is it cheaper to rent a Hyster 5k warehouse forklift by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $250 day rate would be $750, but the weekly rate caps it at $650.

When is it cheaper to rent a Hyster 5k warehouse forklift on the 28-day rate?

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,650 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.

Hyster 5k warehouse forklift

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Mark Briceno · Forklifts - Warehouse

Day: $250
Week: $650
28 days: $1,650

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $750. On the week rate it is $650.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $4,000. On the 28-day rate it is $1,650.

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 Hyster 5k warehouse forklift, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$250	$250	—	day
2	$500	$500	—	day
3	$750	$650	you save $100	week
4	$1,000	$650	you save $350	week
5	$1,250	$650	you save $600	week
6	$1,500	$650	you save $850	week
7	$1,750	$650	you save $1,100	week
8	$2,000	$900	you save $1,100	week
9	$2,250	$1,150	you save $1,100	week
10	$2,500	$1,300	you save $1,200	week
11	$2,750	$1,300	you save $1,450	week
12	$3,000	$1,300	you save $1,700	week
13	$3,250	$1,300	you save $1,950	week
14	$3,500	$1,300	you save $2,200	week
15	$3,750	$1,550	you save $2,200	week
16	$4,000	$1,650	you save $2,350	28-day
17	$4,250	$1,650	you save $2,600	28-day
18	$4,500	$1,650	you save $2,850	28-day
19	$4,750	$1,650	you save $3,100	28-day
20	$5,000	$1,650	you save $3,350	28-day
21	$5,250	$1,650	you save $3,600	28-day
22	$5,500	$1,650	you save $3,850	28-day
23	$5,750	$1,650	you save $4,100	28-day
24	$6,000	$1,650	you save $4,350	28-day
25	$6,250	$1,650	you save $4,600	28-day
26	$6,500	$1,650	you save $4,850	28-day
27	$6,750	$1,650	you save $5,100	28-day
28	$7,000	$1,650	you save $5,350	28-day
29	$7,250	$1,900	you save $5,350	day
30	$7,500	$2,150	you save $5,350	day
31	$7,750	$2,300	you save $5,450	week
32	$8,000	$2,300	you save $5,700	week
33	$8,250	$2,300	you save $5,950	week
34	$8,500	$2,300	you save $6,200	week
35	$8,750	$2,300	you save $6,450	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 · 16 days: $1,650
Rental protection (RPP): $247.50
Service fee: $165
Estimated total: $2,062.50

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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.