When is it cheaper to rent a Dumpster/Dump Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $95 day rate would be $665, but the weekly rate caps it at $600.

When is it cheaper to rent a Dumpster/Dump Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,250 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.

Dumpster/Dump Trailer

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Axzel Mckinnon · Dump Trailer

Day: $95
Week: $600
28 days: $2,250

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $665. On the week rate it is $600.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $2,470. On the 28-day rate it is $2,250.

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 Dumpster/Dump Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$95	$95	—	day
2	$190	$190	—	day
3	$285	$285	—	day
4	$380	$380	—	day
5	$475	$475	—	day
6	$570	$570	—	day
7	$665	$600	you save $65	week
8	$760	$695	you save $65	week
9	$855	$790	you save $65	week
10	$950	$885	you save $65	week
11	$1,045	$980	you save $65	week
12	$1,140	$1,075	you save $65	week
13	$1,235	$1,170	you save $65	week
14	$1,330	$1,200	you save $130	week
15	$1,425	$1,295	you save $130	week
16	$1,520	$1,390	you save $130	week
17	$1,615	$1,485	you save $130	week
18	$1,710	$1,580	you save $130	week
19	$1,805	$1,675	you save $130	week
20	$1,900	$1,770	you save $130	week
21	$1,995	$1,800	you save $195	week
22	$2,090	$1,895	you save $195	week
23	$2,185	$1,990	you save $195	week
24	$2,280	$2,085	you save $195	week
25	$2,375	$2,180	you save $195	week
26	$2,470	$2,250	you save $220	28-day
27	$2,565	$2,250	you save $315	28-day
28	$2,660	$2,250	you save $410	28-day
29	$2,755	$2,345	you save $410	day
30	$2,850	$2,440	you save $410	day
31	$2,945	$2,535	you save $410	day
32	$3,040	$2,630	you save $410	day
33	$3,135	$2,725	you save $410	day
34	$3,230	$2,820	you save $410	day
35	$3,325	$2,850	you save $475	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.