When is it cheaper to rent a 8.5x24 Cargo Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $100 day rate would be $600, but the weekly rate caps it at $568.

When is it cheaper to rent a 8.5x24 Cargo Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 25. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,045 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.

8.5x24 Cargo Trailer

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Gerardo Carrillo · Dry Van

Day: $100
Week: $568
28 days: $2,045

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $600. On the week rate it is $568.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $2,500. On the 28-day rate it is $2,045.

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 8.5x24 Cargo Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$100	$100	—	day
2	$200	$200	—	day
3	$300	$300	—	day
4	$400	$400	—	day
5	$500	$500	—	day
6	$600	$568	you save $32	week
7	$700	$568	you save $132	week
8	$800	$668	you save $132	week
9	$900	$768	you save $132	week
10	$1,000	$868	you save $132	week
11	$1,100	$968	you save $132	week
12	$1,200	$1,068	you save $132	week
13	$1,300	$1,136	you save $164	week
14	$1,400	$1,136	you save $264	week
15	$1,500	$1,236	you save $264	week
16	$1,600	$1,336	you save $264	week
17	$1,700	$1,436	you save $264	week
18	$1,800	$1,536	you save $264	week
19	$1,900	$1,636	you save $264	week
20	$2,000	$1,704	you save $296	week
21	$2,100	$1,704	you save $396	week
22	$2,200	$1,804	you save $396	week
23	$2,300	$1,904	you save $396	week
24	$2,400	$2,004	you save $396	week
25	$2,500	$2,045	you save $455	28-day
26	$2,600	$2,045	you save $555	28-day
27	$2,700	$2,045	you save $655	28-day
28	$2,800	$2,045	you save $755	28-day
29	$2,900	$2,145	you save $755	day
30	$3,000	$2,245	you save $755	day
31	$3,100	$2,345	you save $755	day
32	$3,200	$2,445	you save $755	day
33	$3,300	$2,545	you save $755	day
34	$3,400	$2,613	you save $787	week
35	$3,500	$2,613	you save $887	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 · 25 days: $2,045
Rental protection (RPP): $306.75
Service fee: $204.50
Estimated total: $2,556.25

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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.