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

From day 3. 3 days at the $300 day rate would be $900, but the weekly rate caps it at $783.

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

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,500 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.

Forklift

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BOUI KHAMPHENGPHET · Forklifts - Warehouse

Day: $300
Week: $783
28 days: $2,500

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $900. On the week rate it is $783.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $6,600. On the 28-day rate it is $2,500.

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 Forklift, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$300	$300	—	day
2	$600	$600	—	day
3	$900	$783	you save $117	week
4	$1,200	$783	you save $417	week
5	$1,500	$783	you save $717	week
6	$1,800	$783	you save $1,017	week
7	$2,100	$783	you save $1,317	week
8	$2,400	$1,083	you save $1,317	week
9	$2,700	$1,383	you save $1,317	week
10	$3,000	$1,566	you save $1,434	week
11	$3,300	$1,566	you save $1,734	week
12	$3,600	$1,566	you save $2,034	week
13	$3,900	$1,566	you save $2,334	week
14	$4,200	$1,566	you save $2,634	week
15	$4,500	$1,866	you save $2,634	week
16	$4,800	$2,166	you save $2,634	week
17	$5,100	$2,349	you save $2,751	week
18	$5,400	$2,349	you save $3,051	week
19	$5,700	$2,349	you save $3,351	week
20	$6,000	$2,349	you save $3,651	week
21	$6,300	$2,349	you save $3,951	week
22	$6,600	$2,500	you save $4,100	28-day
23	$6,900	$2,500	you save $4,400	28-day
24	$7,200	$2,500	you save $4,700	28-day
25	$7,500	$2,500	you save $5,000	28-day
26	$7,800	$2,500	you save $5,300	28-day
27	$8,100	$2,500	you save $5,600	28-day
28	$8,400	$2,500	you save $5,900	28-day
29	$8,700	$2,800	you save $5,900	day
30	$9,000	$3,100	you save $5,900	day
31	$9,300	$3,283	you save $6,017	week
32	$9,600	$3,283	you save $6,317	week
33	$9,900	$3,283	you save $6,617	week
34	$10,200	$3,283	you save $6,917	week
35	$10,500	$3,283	you save $7,217	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 · 22 days: $2,500
Rental protection (RPP): $375
Service fee: $250
Estimated total: $3,125

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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.