When is it cheaper to rent a Skid Steer Bucket Snow Plow by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $145 day rate would be $580, but the weekly rate caps it at $500.

When is it cheaper to rent a Skid Steer Bucket Snow Plow on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. 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.

Skid Steer Bucket Snow Plow

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Mark Petrashishin · Loaders - Skid Steers - Attachments

Day: $145
Week: $500
28 days: $1,400

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $580. On the week rate it is $500.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $2,465. 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 Skid Steer Bucket Snow Plow, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$145	$145	—	day
2	$290	$290	—	day
3	$435	$435	—	day
4	$580	$500	you save $80	week
5	$725	$500	you save $225	week
6	$870	$500	you save $370	week
7	$1,015	$500	you save $515	week
8	$1,160	$645	you save $515	week
9	$1,305	$790	you save $515	week
10	$1,450	$935	you save $515	week
11	$1,595	$1,000	you save $595	week
12	$1,740	$1,000	you save $740	week
13	$1,885	$1,000	you save $885	week
14	$2,030	$1,000	you save $1,030	week
15	$2,175	$1,145	you save $1,030	week
16	$2,320	$1,290	you save $1,030	week
17	$2,465	$1,400	you save $1,065	28-day
18	$2,610	$1,400	you save $1,210	28-day
19	$2,755	$1,400	you save $1,355	28-day
20	$2,900	$1,400	you save $1,500	28-day
21	$3,045	$1,400	you save $1,645	28-day
22	$3,190	$1,400	you save $1,790	28-day
23	$3,335	$1,400	you save $1,935	28-day
24	$3,480	$1,400	you save $2,080	28-day
25	$3,625	$1,400	you save $2,225	28-day
26	$3,770	$1,400	you save $2,370	28-day
27	$3,915	$1,400	you save $2,515	28-day
28	$4,060	$1,400	you save $2,660	28-day
29	$4,205	$1,545	you save $2,660	day
30	$4,350	$1,690	you save $2,660	day
31	$4,495	$1,835	you save $2,660	day
32	$4,640	$1,900	you save $2,740	week
33	$4,785	$1,900	you save $2,885	week
34	$4,930	$1,900	you save $3,030	week
35	$5,075	$1,900	you save $3,175	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.