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

From day 5. 5 days at the $170 day rate would be $850, but the weekly rate caps it at $800.

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

From day 24. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,900 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.

Front Loader

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Parwez Faizi · Side Loader

Day: $170
Week: $800
28 days: $2,900

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $850. On the week rate it is $800.

Weekly stops winning on

day 24

24 days at the day rate would be $4,080. On the 28-day rate it is $2,900.

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 Front Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$170	$170	—	day
2	$340	$340	—	day
3	$510	$510	—	day
4	$680	$680	—	day
5	$850	$800	you save $50	week
6	$1,020	$800	you save $220	week
7	$1,190	$800	you save $390	week
8	$1,360	$970	you save $390	week
9	$1,530	$1,140	you save $390	week
10	$1,700	$1,310	you save $390	week
11	$1,870	$1,480	you save $390	week
12	$2,040	$1,600	you save $440	week
13	$2,210	$1,600	you save $610	week
14	$2,380	$1,600	you save $780	week
15	$2,550	$1,770	you save $780	week
16	$2,720	$1,940	you save $780	week
17	$2,890	$2,110	you save $780	week
18	$3,060	$2,280	you save $780	week
19	$3,230	$2,400	you save $830	week
20	$3,400	$2,400	you save $1,000	week
21	$3,570	$2,400	you save $1,170	week
22	$3,740	$2,570	you save $1,170	week
23	$3,910	$2,740	you save $1,170	week
24	$4,080	$2,900	you save $1,180	28-day
25	$4,250	$2,900	you save $1,350	28-day
26	$4,420	$2,900	you save $1,520	28-day
27	$4,590	$2,900	you save $1,690	28-day
28	$4,760	$2,900	you save $1,860	28-day
29	$4,930	$3,070	you save $1,860	day
30	$5,100	$3,240	you save $1,860	day
31	$5,270	$3,410	you save $1,860	day
32	$5,440	$3,580	you save $1,860	day
33	$5,610	$3,700	you save $1,910	week
34	$5,780	$3,700	you save $2,080	week
35	$5,950	$3,700	you save $2,250	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 · 24 days: $2,900
Rental protection (RPP): $435
Service fee: $290
Estimated total: $3,625

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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.