When is it cheaper to rent a CAT 302.7 Mini Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $275 day rate would be $1,650, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,502.

When is it cheaper to rent a CAT 302.7 Mini Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,630 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.

CAT 302.7 Mini Excavator

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Ryan Oehring · Excavators - Mini

Day: $275
Week: $1,502
28 days: $3,630

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,650. On the week rate it is $1,502.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $4,675. On the 28-day rate it is $3,630.

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 CAT 302.7 Mini Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$275	$275	—	day
2	$550	$550	—	day
3	$825	$825	—	day
4	$1,100	$1,100	—	day
5	$1,375	$1,375	—	day
6	$1,650	$1,502	you save $148	week
7	$1,925	$1,502	you save $423	week
8	$2,200	$1,777	you save $423	week
9	$2,475	$2,052	you save $423	week
10	$2,750	$2,327	you save $423	week
11	$3,025	$2,602	you save $423	week
12	$3,300	$2,877	you save $423	week
13	$3,575	$3,004	you save $571	week
14	$3,850	$3,004	you save $846	week
15	$4,125	$3,279	you save $846	week
16	$4,400	$3,554	you save $846	week
17	$4,675	$3,630	you save $1,045	28-day
18	$4,950	$3,630	you save $1,320	28-day
19	$5,225	$3,630	you save $1,595	28-day
20	$5,500	$3,630	you save $1,870	28-day
21	$5,775	$3,630	you save $2,145	28-day
22	$6,050	$3,630	you save $2,420	28-day
23	$6,325	$3,630	you save $2,695	28-day
24	$6,600	$3,630	you save $2,970	28-day
25	$6,875	$3,630	you save $3,245	28-day
26	$7,150	$3,630	you save $3,520	28-day
27	$7,425	$3,630	you save $3,795	28-day
28	$7,700	$3,630	you save $4,070	28-day
29	$7,975	$3,905	you save $4,070	day
30	$8,250	$4,180	you save $4,070	day
31	$8,525	$4,455	you save $4,070	day
32	$8,800	$4,730	you save $4,070	day
33	$9,075	$5,005	you save $4,070	day
34	$9,350	$5,132	you save $4,218	week
35	$9,625	$5,132	you save $4,493	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.