When is it cheaper to rent a 12’ Suretrac Dump Trailer w/ Ramps by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $100 day rate would be $500, but the weekly rate caps it at $425.

When is it cheaper to rent a 12’ Suretrac Dump Trailer w/ Ramps on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,400 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.

12’ Suretrac Dump Trailer w/ Ramps

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Erik Baker · Dump Trailer

Day: $100
Week: $425
28 days: $1,400

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $500. On the week rate it is $425.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $2,300. On the 28-day rate it is $1,400.

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 12’ Suretrac Dump Trailer w/ Ramps, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$100	$100	—	day
2	$200	$200	—	day
3	$300	$300	—	day
4	$400	$400	—	day
5	$500	$425	you save $75	week
6	$600	$425	you save $175	week
7	$700	$425	you save $275	week
8	$800	$525	you save $275	week
9	$900	$625	you save $275	week
10	$1,000	$725	you save $275	week
11	$1,100	$825	you save $275	week
12	$1,200	$850	you save $350	week
13	$1,300	$850	you save $450	week
14	$1,400	$850	you save $550	week
15	$1,500	$950	you save $550	week
16	$1,600	$1,050	you save $550	week
17	$1,700	$1,150	you save $550	week
18	$1,800	$1,250	you save $550	week
19	$1,900	$1,275	you save $625	week
20	$2,000	$1,275	you save $725	week
21	$2,100	$1,275	you save $825	week
22	$2,200	$1,375	you save $825	week
23	$2,300	$1,400	you save $900	28-day
24	$2,400	$1,400	you save $1,000	28-day
25	$2,500	$1,400	you save $1,100	28-day
26	$2,600	$1,400	you save $1,200	28-day
27	$2,700	$1,400	you save $1,300	28-day
28	$2,800	$1,400	you save $1,400	28-day
29	$2,900	$1,500	you save $1,400	day
30	$3,000	$1,600	you save $1,400	day
31	$3,100	$1,700	you save $1,400	day
32	$3,200	$1,800	you save $1,400	day
33	$3,300	$1,825	you save $1,475	week
34	$3,400	$1,825	you save $1,575	week
35	$3,500	$1,825	you save $1,675	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 · 23 days: $1,400
Rental protection (RPP): $210
Service fee: $140
Estimated total: $1,750

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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.