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

From day 4. 4 days at the $195 day rate would be $780, but the weekly rate caps it at $624.

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

From day 15. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,323 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.

Concrete Buggy

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Ashley Barnes · Concrete - Buggies

Day: $195
Week: $624
28 days: $1,323

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $780. On the week rate it is $624.

Weekly stops winning on

day 15

15 days at the day rate would be $2,925. On the 28-day rate it is $1,323.

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 Concrete Buggy, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$195	$195	—	day
2	$390	$390	—	day
3	$585	$585	—	day
4	$780	$624	you save $156	week
5	$975	$624	you save $351	week
6	$1,170	$624	you save $546	week
7	$1,365	$624	you save $741	week
8	$1,560	$819	you save $741	week
9	$1,755	$1,014	you save $741	week
10	$1,950	$1,209	you save $741	week
11	$2,145	$1,248	you save $897	week
12	$2,340	$1,248	you save $1,092	week
13	$2,535	$1,248	you save $1,287	week
14	$2,730	$1,248	you save $1,482	week
15	$2,925	$1,323	you save $1,602	28-day
16	$3,120	$1,323	you save $1,797	28-day
17	$3,315	$1,323	you save $1,992	28-day
18	$3,510	$1,323	you save $2,187	28-day
19	$3,705	$1,323	you save $2,382	28-day
20	$3,900	$1,323	you save $2,577	28-day
21	$4,095	$1,323	you save $2,772	28-day
22	$4,290	$1,323	you save $2,967	28-day
23	$4,485	$1,323	you save $3,162	28-day
24	$4,680	$1,323	you save $3,357	28-day
25	$4,875	$1,323	you save $3,552	28-day
26	$5,070	$1,323	you save $3,747	28-day
27	$5,265	$1,323	you save $3,942	28-day
28	$5,460	$1,323	you save $4,137	28-day
29	$5,655	$1,518	you save $4,137	day
30	$5,850	$1,713	you save $4,137	day
31	$6,045	$1,908	you save $4,137	day
32	$6,240	$1,947	you save $4,293	week
33	$6,435	$1,947	you save $4,488	week
34	$6,630	$1,947	you save $4,683	week
35	$6,825	$1,947	you save $4,878	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.