When is it cheaper to rent a 6'x12' SINGLE AXLE CARGO TRAILER by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $55 day rate would be $220, but the weekly rate caps it at $190.

When is it cheaper to rent a 6'x12' SINGLE AXLE CARGO TRAILER on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $550 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.

6'x12' SINGLE AXLE CARGO TRAILER

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chase stensgar · Dry Van

Day: $55
Week: $190
28 days: $550

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $220. On the week rate it is $190.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $990. On the 28-day rate it is $550.

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 6'x12' SINGLE AXLE CARGO TRAILER, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$55	$55	—	day
2	$110	$110	—	day
3	$165	$165	—	day
4	$220	$190	you save $30	week
5	$275	$190	you save $85	week
6	$330	$190	you save $140	week
7	$385	$190	you save $195	week
8	$440	$245	you save $195	week
9	$495	$300	you save $195	week
10	$550	$355	you save $195	week
11	$605	$380	you save $225	week
12	$660	$380	you save $280	week
13	$715	$380	you save $335	week
14	$770	$380	you save $390	week
15	$825	$435	you save $390	week
16	$880	$490	you save $390	week
17	$935	$545	you save $390	week
18	$990	$550	you save $440	28-day
19	$1,045	$550	you save $495	28-day
20	$1,100	$550	you save $550	28-day
21	$1,155	$550	you save $605	28-day
22	$1,210	$550	you save $660	28-day
23	$1,265	$550	you save $715	28-day
24	$1,320	$550	you save $770	28-day
25	$1,375	$550	you save $825	28-day
26	$1,430	$550	you save $880	28-day
27	$1,485	$550	you save $935	28-day
28	$1,540	$550	you save $990	28-day
29	$1,595	$605	you save $990	day
30	$1,650	$660	you save $990	day
31	$1,705	$715	you save $990	day
32	$1,760	$740	you save $1,020	week
33	$1,815	$740	you save $1,075	week
34	$1,870	$740	you save $1,130	week
35	$1,925	$740	you save $1,185	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.