When is it cheaper to rent a 20' Top Hat Heavy-Duty Trailer with Lay Down Ramps 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 $613.

When is it cheaper to rent a 20' Top Hat Heavy-Duty Trailer with Lay Down Ramps on the 28-day rate?

From day 25. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,250 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.

20' Top Hat Heavy-Duty Trailer with Lay Down Ramps

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Jeff Dodson · Flatbed

Day: $125
Week: $613
28 days: $2,250

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $625. On the week rate it is $613.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $3,125. On the 28-day rate it is $2,250.

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 20' Top Hat Heavy-Duty Trailer with Lay Down Ramps, 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	$613	you save $12	week
6	$750	$613	you save $137	week
7	$875	$613	you save $262	week
8	$1,000	$738	you save $262	week
9	$1,125	$863	you save $262	week
10	$1,250	$988	you save $262	week
11	$1,375	$1,113	you save $262	week
12	$1,500	$1,226	you save $274	week
13	$1,625	$1,226	you save $399	week
14	$1,750	$1,226	you save $524	week
15	$1,875	$1,351	you save $524	week
16	$2,000	$1,476	you save $524	week
17	$2,125	$1,601	you save $524	week
18	$2,250	$1,726	you save $524	week
19	$2,375	$1,839	you save $536	week
20	$2,500	$1,839	you save $661	week
21	$2,625	$1,839	you save $786	week
22	$2,750	$1,964	you save $786	week
23	$2,875	$2,089	you save $786	week
24	$3,000	$2,214	you save $786	week
25	$3,125	$2,250	you save $875	28-day
26	$3,250	$2,250	you save $1,000	28-day
27	$3,375	$2,250	you save $1,125	28-day
28	$3,500	$2,250	you save $1,250	28-day
29	$3,625	$2,375	you save $1,250	day
30	$3,750	$2,500	you save $1,250	day
31	$3,875	$2,625	you save $1,250	day
32	$4,000	$2,750	you save $1,250	day
33	$4,125	$2,863	you save $1,262	week
34	$4,250	$2,863	you save $1,387	week
35	$4,375	$2,863	you save $1,512	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: $2,250
Rental protection (RPP): $337.50
Service fee: $225
Estimated total: $2,812.50

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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.