When is it cheaper to rent a Car Hauler / Utilitiy Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $70 day rate would be $420, but the weekly rate caps it at $400.

When is it cheaper to rent a Car Hauler / Utilitiy Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 25. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,450 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.

Car Hauler / Utilitiy Trailer

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Shawn Estrada · Car Hauler

Day: $70
Week: $400
28 days: $1,450

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $420. On the week rate it is $400.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $1,750. On the 28-day rate it is $1,450.

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 Car Hauler / Utilitiy Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$70	$70	—	day
2	$140	$140	—	day
3	$210	$210	—	day
4	$280	$280	—	day
5	$350	$350	—	day
6	$420	$400	you save $20	week
7	$490	$400	you save $90	week
8	$560	$470	you save $90	week
9	$630	$540	you save $90	week
10	$700	$610	you save $90	week
11	$770	$680	you save $90	week
12	$840	$750	you save $90	week
13	$910	$800	you save $110	week
14	$980	$800	you save $180	week
15	$1,050	$870	you save $180	week
16	$1,120	$940	you save $180	week
17	$1,190	$1,010	you save $180	week
18	$1,260	$1,080	you save $180	week
19	$1,330	$1,150	you save $180	week
20	$1,400	$1,200	you save $200	week
21	$1,470	$1,200	you save $270	week
22	$1,540	$1,270	you save $270	week
23	$1,610	$1,340	you save $270	week
24	$1,680	$1,410	you save $270	week
25	$1,750	$1,450	you save $300	28-day
26	$1,820	$1,450	you save $370	28-day
27	$1,890	$1,450	you save $440	28-day
28	$1,960	$1,450	you save $510	28-day
29	$2,030	$1,520	you save $510	day
30	$2,100	$1,590	you save $510	day
31	$2,170	$1,660	you save $510	day
32	$2,240	$1,730	you save $510	day
33	$2,310	$1,800	you save $510	day
34	$2,380	$1,850	you save $530	week
35	$2,450	$1,850	you save $600	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.