When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat T66 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $410 day rate would be $1,640, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,230.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat T66 on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,596 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.

Bobcat T66

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Tez Rental · Loaders - Compact Track

Day: $410
Week: $1,230
28 days: $3,596

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,640. On the week rate it is $1,230.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $6,970. On the 28-day rate it is $3,596.

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 Bobcat T66, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$410	$410	—	day
2	$820	$820	—	day
3	$1,230	$1,230	—	day
4	$1,640	$1,230	you save $410	week
5	$2,050	$1,230	you save $820	week
6	$2,460	$1,230	you save $1,230	week
7	$2,870	$1,230	you save $1,640	week
8	$3,280	$1,640	you save $1,640	week
9	$3,690	$2,050	you save $1,640	week
10	$4,100	$2,460	you save $1,640	week
11	$4,510	$2,460	you save $2,050	week
12	$4,920	$2,460	you save $2,460	week
13	$5,330	$2,460	you save $2,870	week
14	$5,740	$2,460	you save $3,280	week
15	$6,150	$2,870	you save $3,280	week
16	$6,560	$3,280	you save $3,280	week
17	$6,970	$3,596	you save $3,374	28-day
18	$7,380	$3,596	you save $3,784	28-day
19	$7,790	$3,596	you save $4,194	28-day
20	$8,200	$3,596	you save $4,604	28-day
21	$8,610	$3,596	you save $5,014	28-day
22	$9,020	$3,596	you save $5,424	28-day
23	$9,430	$3,596	you save $5,834	28-day
24	$9,840	$3,596	you save $6,244	28-day
25	$10,250	$3,596	you save $6,654	28-day
26	$10,660	$3,596	you save $7,064	28-day
27	$11,070	$3,596	you save $7,474	28-day
28	$11,480	$3,596	you save $7,884	28-day
29	$11,890	$4,006	you save $7,884	day
30	$12,300	$4,416	you save $7,884	day
31	$12,710	$4,826	you save $7,884	day
32	$13,120	$4,826	you save $8,294	week
33	$13,530	$4,826	you save $8,704	week
34	$13,940	$4,826	you save $9,114	week
35	$14,350	$4,826	you save $9,524	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 · 17 days: $3,596
Rental protection (RPP): $539.40
Service fee: $359.60
Estimated total: $4,495

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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.