When is it cheaper to rent a Excavator/backhoe by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $325 day rate would be $1,300, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,250.

When is it cheaper to rent a Excavator/backhoe on the 28-day rate?

From day 11. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,295 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.

Excavator/backhoe

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Jasmine Ferra · Excavators - Crawler

Day: $325
Week: $1,250
28 days: $2,295

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,300. On the week rate it is $1,250.

Weekly stops winning on

day 11

11 days at the day rate would be $3,575. On the 28-day rate it is $2,295.

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 Excavator/backhoe, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$325	$325	—	day
2	$650	$650	—	day
3	$975	$975	—	day
4	$1,300	$1,250	you save $50	week
5	$1,625	$1,250	you save $375	week
6	$1,950	$1,250	you save $700	week
7	$2,275	$1,250	you save $1,025	week
8	$2,600	$1,575	you save $1,025	week
9	$2,925	$1,900	you save $1,025	week
10	$3,250	$2,225	you save $1,025	week
11	$3,575	$2,295	you save $1,280	28-day
12	$3,900	$2,295	you save $1,605	28-day
13	$4,225	$2,295	you save $1,930	28-day
14	$4,550	$2,295	you save $2,255	28-day
15	$4,875	$2,295	you save $2,580	28-day
16	$5,200	$2,295	you save $2,905	28-day
17	$5,525	$2,295	you save $3,230	28-day
18	$5,850	$2,295	you save $3,555	28-day
19	$6,175	$2,295	you save $3,880	28-day
20	$6,500	$2,295	you save $4,205	28-day
21	$6,825	$2,295	you save $4,530	28-day
22	$7,150	$2,295	you save $4,855	28-day
23	$7,475	$2,295	you save $5,180	28-day
24	$7,800	$2,295	you save $5,505	28-day
25	$8,125	$2,295	you save $5,830	28-day
26	$8,450	$2,295	you save $6,155	28-day
27	$8,775	$2,295	you save $6,480	28-day
28	$9,100	$2,295	you save $6,805	28-day
29	$9,425	$2,620	you save $6,805	day
30	$9,750	$2,945	you save $6,805	day
31	$10,075	$3,270	you save $6,805	day
32	$10,400	$3,545	you save $6,855	week
33	$10,725	$3,545	you save $7,180	week
34	$11,050	$3,545	you save $7,505	week
35	$11,375	$3,545	you save $7,830	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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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.