When is it cheaper to rent a Heavy duty equipment or car hauler by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $150 day rate would be $1,050, but the weekly rate caps it at $945.

When is it cheaper to rent a Heavy duty equipment or car hauler on the 28-day rate?

From day 27. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,600 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.

Heavy duty equipment or car hauler

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Jace Trosclair · Car Hauler

Day: $150
Week: $945
28 days: $3,600

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $1,050. On the week rate it is $945.

Weekly stops winning on

day 27

27 days at the day rate would be $4,050. On the 28-day rate it is $3,600.

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 Heavy duty equipment or car hauler, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$150	$150	—	day
2	$300	$300	—	day
3	$450	$450	—	day
4	$600	$600	—	day
5	$750	$750	—	day
6	$900	$900	—	day
7	$1,050	$945	you save $105	week
8	$1,200	$1,095	you save $105	week
9	$1,350	$1,245	you save $105	week
10	$1,500	$1,395	you save $105	week
11	$1,650	$1,545	you save $105	week
12	$1,800	$1,695	you save $105	week
13	$1,950	$1,845	you save $105	week
14	$2,100	$1,890	you save $210	week
15	$2,250	$2,040	you save $210	week
16	$2,400	$2,190	you save $210	week
17	$2,550	$2,340	you save $210	week
18	$2,700	$2,490	you save $210	week
19	$2,850	$2,640	you save $210	week
20	$3,000	$2,790	you save $210	week
21	$3,150	$2,835	you save $315	week
22	$3,300	$2,985	you save $315	week
23	$3,450	$3,135	you save $315	week
24	$3,600	$3,285	you save $315	week
25	$3,750	$3,435	you save $315	week
26	$3,900	$3,585	you save $315	week
27	$4,050	$3,600	you save $450	28-day
28	$4,200	$3,600	you save $600	28-day
29	$4,350	$3,750	you save $600	day
30	$4,500	$3,900	you save $600	day
31	$4,650	$4,050	you save $600	day
32	$4,800	$4,200	you save $600	day
33	$4,950	$4,350	you save $600	day
34	$5,100	$4,500	you save $600	day
35	$5,250	$4,545	you save $705	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 · 27 days: $3,600
Rental protection (RPP): $540
Service fee: $360
Estimated total: $4,500

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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.