When is it cheaper to rent a Flatbed trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $80 day rate would be $320, but the weekly rate caps it at $250.

When is it cheaper to rent a Flatbed trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 25. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,000 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.

Flatbed trailer

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Jeremy Wear · Flatbed

Day: $80
Week: $250
28 days: $1,000

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $320. On the week rate it is $250.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $2,000. On the 28-day rate it is $1,000.

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 Flatbed trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$80	$80	—	day
2	$160	$160	—	day
3	$240	$240	—	day
4	$320	$250	you save $70	week
5	$400	$250	you save $150	week
6	$480	$250	you save $230	week
7	$560	$250	you save $310	week
8	$640	$330	you save $310	week
9	$720	$410	you save $310	week
10	$800	$490	you save $310	week
11	$880	$500	you save $380	week
12	$960	$500	you save $460	week
13	$1,040	$500	you save $540	week
14	$1,120	$500	you save $620	week
15	$1,200	$580	you save $620	week
16	$1,280	$660	you save $620	week
17	$1,360	$740	you save $620	week
18	$1,440	$750	you save $690	week
19	$1,520	$750	you save $770	week
20	$1,600	$750	you save $850	week
21	$1,680	$750	you save $930	week
22	$1,760	$830	you save $930	week
23	$1,840	$910	you save $930	week
24	$1,920	$990	you save $930	week
25	$2,000	$1,000	you save $1,000	28-day
26	$2,080	$1,000	you save $1,080	28-day
27	$2,160	$1,000	you save $1,160	28-day
28	$2,240	$1,000	you save $1,240	28-day
29	$2,320	$1,080	you save $1,240	day
30	$2,400	$1,160	you save $1,240	day
31	$2,480	$1,240	you save $1,240	day
32	$2,560	$1,250	you save $1,310	week
33	$2,640	$1,250	you save $1,390	week
34	$2,720	$1,250	you save $1,470	week
35	$2,800	$1,250	you save $1,550	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.