When is it cheaper to rent a 5 ton equipment trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $125 day rate would be $625, but the weekly rate caps it at $500.

When is it cheaper to rent a 5 ton equipment trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 25. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,000 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.

5 ton equipment trailer

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Scott DeMario · Flatbed

Day: $125
Week: $500
28 days: $2,000

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $625. On the week rate it is $500.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $3,125. On the 28-day rate it is $2,000.

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 5 ton equipment trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$125	$125	—	day
2	$250	$250	—	day
3	$375	$375	—	day
4	$500	$500	—	day
5	$625	$500	you save $125	week
6	$750	$500	you save $250	week
7	$875	$500	you save $375	week
8	$1,000	$625	you save $375	week
9	$1,125	$750	you save $375	week
10	$1,250	$875	you save $375	week
11	$1,375	$1,000	you save $375	week
12	$1,500	$1,000	you save $500	week
13	$1,625	$1,000	you save $625	week
14	$1,750	$1,000	you save $750	week
15	$1,875	$1,125	you save $750	week
16	$2,000	$1,250	you save $750	week
17	$2,125	$1,375	you save $750	week
18	$2,250	$1,500	you save $750	week
19	$2,375	$1,500	you save $875	week
20	$2,500	$1,500	you save $1,000	week
21	$2,625	$1,500	you save $1,125	week
22	$2,750	$1,625	you save $1,125	week
23	$2,875	$1,750	you save $1,125	week
24	$3,000	$1,875	you save $1,125	week
25	$3,125	$2,000	you save $1,125	28-day
26	$3,250	$2,000	you save $1,250	28-day
27	$3,375	$2,000	you save $1,375	28-day
28	$3,500	$2,000	you save $1,500	28-day
29	$3,625	$2,125	you save $1,500	day
30	$3,750	$2,250	you save $1,500	day
31	$3,875	$2,375	you save $1,500	day
32	$4,000	$2,500	you save $1,500	day
33	$4,125	$2,500	you save $1,625	week
34	$4,250	$2,500	you save $1,750	week
35	$4,375	$2,500	you save $1,875	week

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

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 25 days: $2,000
Rental protection (RPP): $300
Service fee: $200
Estimated total: $2,500

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The numbers come from one operator’s published rates, so the tool needs to know whose.

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.