When is it cheaper to rent a 6x12 Utility Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $60 day rate would be $420, but the weekly rate caps it at $361.

When is it cheaper to rent a 6x12 Utility Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 24. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,260 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.

6x12 Utility Trailer

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Corey McCormack · Flatbed

Day: $60
Week: $361
28 days: $1,260

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $420. On the week rate it is $361.

Weekly stops winning on

day 24

24 days at the day rate would be $1,440. On the 28-day rate it is $1,260.

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 6x12 Utility Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$60	$60	—	day
2	$120	$120	—	day
3	$180	$180	—	day
4	$240	$240	—	day
5	$300	$300	—	day
6	$360	$360	—	day
7	$420	$361	you save $59	week
8	$480	$421	you save $59	week
9	$540	$481	you save $59	week
10	$600	$541	you save $59	week
11	$660	$601	you save $59	week
12	$720	$661	you save $59	week
13	$780	$721	you save $59	week
14	$840	$722	you save $118	week
15	$900	$782	you save $118	week
16	$960	$842	you save $118	week
17	$1,020	$902	you save $118	week
18	$1,080	$962	you save $118	week
19	$1,140	$1,022	you save $118	week
20	$1,200	$1,082	you save $118	week
21	$1,260	$1,083	you save $177	week
22	$1,320	$1,143	you save $177	week
23	$1,380	$1,203	you save $177	week
24	$1,440	$1,260	you save $180	28-day
25	$1,500	$1,260	you save $240	28-day
26	$1,560	$1,260	you save $300	28-day
27	$1,620	$1,260	you save $360	28-day
28	$1,680	$1,260	you save $420	28-day
29	$1,740	$1,320	you save $420	day
30	$1,800	$1,380	you save $420	day
31	$1,860	$1,440	you save $420	day
32	$1,920	$1,500	you save $420	day
33	$1,980	$1,560	you save $420	day
34	$2,040	$1,620	you save $420	day
35	$2,100	$1,621	you save $479	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.