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.

Airtow with Dump Trailer

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Cristal Flawless · Dump Trailer

Day
$100
Week
$560
28 days
$1,950

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $600. On the week rate it is $560.

Weekly stops winning on

day 24

24 days at the day rate would be $2,400. On the 28-day rate it is $1,950.

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 Airtow with Dump Trailer, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$100$100—day
2$200$200—day
3$300$300—day
4$400$400—day
5$500$500—day
6$600$560you save $40week
7$700$560you save $140week
8$800$660you save $140week
9$900$760you save $140week
10$1,000$860you save $140week
11$1,100$960you save $140week
12$1,200$1,060you save $140week
13$1,300$1,120you save $180week
14$1,400$1,120you save $280week
15$1,500$1,220you save $280week
16$1,600$1,320you save $280week
17$1,700$1,420you save $280week
18$1,800$1,520you save $280week
19$1,900$1,620you save $280week
20$2,000$1,680you save $320week
21$2,100$1,680you save $420week
22$2,200$1,780you save $420week
23$2,300$1,880you save $420week
24$2,400$1,950you save $45028-day
25$2,500$1,950you save $55028-day
26$2,600$1,950you save $65028-day
27$2,700$1,950you save $75028-day
28$2,800$1,950you save $85028-day
29$2,900$2,050you save $850day
30$3,000$2,150you save $850day
31$3,100$2,250you save $850day
32$3,200$2,350you save $850day
33$3,300$2,450you save $850day
34$3,400$2,510you save $890week
35$3,500$2,510you save $990week

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.