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.

Werner

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Jay Rod · Sanders - Hand

Day
$70
Week
$250
28 days
$400

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $280. On the week rate it is $250.

Weekly stops winning on

day 10

10 days at the day rate would be $700. On the 28-day rate it is $400.

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 Werner, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$70$70—day
2$140$140—day
3$210$210—day
4$280$250you save $30week
5$350$250you save $100week
6$420$250you save $170week
7$490$250you save $240week
8$560$320you save $240week
9$630$390you save $240week
10$700$400you save $30028-day
11$770$400you save $37028-day
12$840$400you save $44028-day
13$910$400you save $51028-day
14$980$400you save $58028-day
15$1,050$400you save $65028-day
16$1,120$400you save $72028-day
17$1,190$400you save $79028-day
18$1,260$400you save $86028-day
19$1,330$400you save $93028-day
20$1,400$400you save $1,00028-day
21$1,470$400you save $1,07028-day
22$1,540$400you save $1,14028-day
23$1,610$400you save $1,21028-day
24$1,680$400you save $1,28028-day
25$1,750$400you save $1,35028-day
26$1,820$400you save $1,42028-day
27$1,890$400you save $1,49028-day
28$1,960$400you save $1,56028-day
29$2,030$470you save $1,560day
30$2,100$540you save $1,560day
31$2,170$610you save $1,560day
32$2,240$650you save $1,590week
33$2,310$650you save $1,660week
34$2,380$650you save $1,730week
35$2,450$650you save $1,800week

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

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 10 days
$400
Rental protection (RPP)
$60
Service fee
$40
Estimated total
$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.