When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat Skid Steer Loader by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $110 day rate would be $550, but the weekly rate caps it at $539.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat Skid Steer Loader on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. 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.

Bobcat Skid Steer Loader

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Level equipment rentals · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $110
Week: $539
28 days: $1,650

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $550. On the week rate it is $539.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $2,420. 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 Bobcat Skid Steer Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$110	$110	—	day
2	$220	$220	—	day
3	$330	$330	—	day
4	$440	$440	—	day
5	$550	$539	you save $11	week
6	$660	$539	you save $121	week
7	$770	$539	you save $231	week
8	$880	$649	you save $231	week
9	$990	$759	you save $231	week
10	$1,100	$869	you save $231	week
11	$1,210	$979	you save $231	week
12	$1,320	$1,078	you save $242	week
13	$1,430	$1,078	you save $352	week
14	$1,540	$1,078	you save $462	week
15	$1,650	$1,188	you save $462	week
16	$1,760	$1,298	you save $462	week
17	$1,870	$1,408	you save $462	week
18	$1,980	$1,518	you save $462	week
19	$2,090	$1,617	you save $473	week
20	$2,200	$1,617	you save $583	week
21	$2,310	$1,617	you save $693	week
22	$2,420	$1,650	you save $770	28-day
23	$2,530	$1,650	you save $880	28-day
24	$2,640	$1,650	you save $990	28-day
25	$2,750	$1,650	you save $1,100	28-day
26	$2,860	$1,650	you save $1,210	28-day
27	$2,970	$1,650	you save $1,320	28-day
28	$3,080	$1,650	you save $1,430	28-day
29	$3,190	$1,760	you save $1,430	day
30	$3,300	$1,870	you save $1,430	day
31	$3,410	$1,980	you save $1,430	day
32	$3,520	$2,090	you save $1,430	day
33	$3,630	$2,189	you save $1,441	week
34	$3,740	$2,189	you save $1,551	week
35	$3,850	$2,189	you save $1,661	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.