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.

Dump Trailer

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Robert Riddle · Dump Trailer

Day
$60
Week
$200
28 days
$650

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $240. On the week rate it is $200.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $1,320. On the 28-day rate it is $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 Dump Trailer, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$60$60—day
2$120$120—day
3$180$180—day
4$240$200you save $40week
5$300$200you save $100week
6$360$200you save $160week
7$420$200you save $220week
8$480$260you save $220week
9$540$320you save $220week
10$600$380you save $220week
11$660$400you save $260week
12$720$400you save $320week
13$780$400you save $380week
14$840$400you save $440week
15$900$460you save $440week
16$960$520you save $440week
17$1,020$580you save $440week
18$1,080$600you save $480week
19$1,140$600you save $540week
20$1,200$600you save $600week
21$1,260$600you save $660week
22$1,320$650you save $67028-day
23$1,380$650you save $73028-day
24$1,440$650you save $79028-day
25$1,500$650you save $85028-day
26$1,560$650you save $91028-day
27$1,620$650you save $97028-day
28$1,680$650you save $1,03028-day
29$1,740$710you save $1,030day
30$1,800$770you save $1,030day
31$1,860$830you save $1,030day
32$1,920$850you save $1,070week
33$1,980$850you save $1,130week
34$2,040$850you save $1,190week
35$2,100$850you save $1,250week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 22 days
$650
Rental protection (RPP)
$97.50
Service fee
$65
Estimated total
$812.50

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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.