When is it cheaper to rent a 6x16 Utility Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $75 day rate would be $525, but the weekly rate caps it at $480.

When is it cheaper to rent a 6x16 Utility Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,800 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.

6x16 Utility Trailer

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Zachary audley · Flatbed

Day: $75
Week: $480
28 days: $1,800

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $525. On the week rate it is $480.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $1,950. On the 28-day rate it is $1,800.

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 6x16 Utility Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$75	$75	—	day
2	$150	$150	—	day
3	$225	$225	—	day
4	$300	$300	—	day
5	$375	$375	—	day
6	$450	$450	—	day
7	$525	$480	you save $45	week
8	$600	$555	you save $45	week
9	$675	$630	you save $45	week
10	$750	$705	you save $45	week
11	$825	$780	you save $45	week
12	$900	$855	you save $45	week
13	$975	$930	you save $45	week
14	$1,050	$960	you save $90	week
15	$1,125	$1,035	you save $90	week
16	$1,200	$1,110	you save $90	week
17	$1,275	$1,185	you save $90	week
18	$1,350	$1,260	you save $90	week
19	$1,425	$1,335	you save $90	week
20	$1,500	$1,410	you save $90	week
21	$1,575	$1,440	you save $135	week
22	$1,650	$1,515	you save $135	week
23	$1,725	$1,590	you save $135	week
24	$1,800	$1,665	you save $135	week
25	$1,875	$1,740	you save $135	week
26	$1,950	$1,800	you save $150	28-day
27	$2,025	$1,800	you save $225	28-day
28	$2,100	$1,800	you save $300	28-day
29	$2,175	$1,875	you save $300	day
30	$2,250	$1,950	you save $300	day
31	$2,325	$2,025	you save $300	day
32	$2,400	$2,100	you save $300	day
33	$2,475	$2,175	you save $300	day
34	$2,550	$2,250	you save $300	day
35	$2,625	$2,280	you save $345	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.