When is it cheaper to rent a Patriot 14 ft dump by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $120 day rate would be $360, but the weekly rate caps it at $320.

When is it cheaper to rent a Patriot 14 ft dump on the 28-day rate?

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $850 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.

Patriot 14 ft dump

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dusten redwine · Dump Trailer

Day: $120
Week: $320
28 days: $850

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $360. On the week rate it is $320.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $1,920. On the 28-day rate it is $850.

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 Patriot 14 ft dump, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$120	$120	—	day
2	$240	$240	—	day
3	$360	$320	you save $40	week
4	$480	$320	you save $160	week
5	$600	$320	you save $280	week
6	$720	$320	you save $400	week
7	$840	$320	you save $520	week
8	$960	$440	you save $520	week
9	$1,080	$560	you save $520	week
10	$1,200	$640	you save $560	week
11	$1,320	$640	you save $680	week
12	$1,440	$640	you save $800	week
13	$1,560	$640	you save $920	week
14	$1,680	$640	you save $1,040	week
15	$1,800	$760	you save $1,040	week
16	$1,920	$850	you save $1,070	28-day
17	$2,040	$850	you save $1,190	28-day
18	$2,160	$850	you save $1,310	28-day
19	$2,280	$850	you save $1,430	28-day
20	$2,400	$850	you save $1,550	28-day
21	$2,520	$850	you save $1,670	28-day
22	$2,640	$850	you save $1,790	28-day
23	$2,760	$850	you save $1,910	28-day
24	$2,880	$850	you save $2,030	28-day
25	$3,000	$850	you save $2,150	28-day
26	$3,120	$850	you save $2,270	28-day
27	$3,240	$850	you save $2,390	28-day
28	$3,360	$850	you save $2,510	28-day
29	$3,480	$970	you save $2,510	day
30	$3,600	$1,090	you save $2,510	day
31	$3,720	$1,170	you save $2,550	week
32	$3,840	$1,170	you save $2,670	week
33	$3,960	$1,170	you save $2,790	week
34	$4,080	$1,170	you save $2,910	week
35	$4,200	$1,170	you save $3,030	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.