When is it cheaper to rent a Norstar 14k Dump Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $125 day rate would be $500, but the weekly rate caps it at $499.

When is it cheaper to rent a Norstar 14k Dump Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,388 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.

Norstar 14k Dump Trailer

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Adam Bellinger · Dump Trailer

Day: $125
Week: $499
28 days: $1,388

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $500. On the week rate it is $499.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $2,250. On the 28-day rate it is $1,388.

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 Norstar 14k Dump Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$125	$125	—	day
2	$250	$250	—	day
3	$375	$375	—	day
4	$500	$499	you save $1	week
5	$625	$499	you save $126	week
6	$750	$499	you save $251	week
7	$875	$499	you save $376	week
8	$1,000	$624	you save $376	week
9	$1,125	$749	you save $376	week
10	$1,250	$874	you save $376	week
11	$1,375	$998	you save $377	week
12	$1,500	$998	you save $502	week
13	$1,625	$998	you save $627	week
14	$1,750	$998	you save $752	week
15	$1,875	$1,123	you save $752	week
16	$2,000	$1,248	you save $752	week
17	$2,125	$1,373	you save $752	week
18	$2,250	$1,388	you save $862	28-day
19	$2,375	$1,388	you save $987	28-day
20	$2,500	$1,388	you save $1,112	28-day
21	$2,625	$1,388	you save $1,237	28-day
22	$2,750	$1,388	you save $1,362	28-day
23	$2,875	$1,388	you save $1,487	28-day
24	$3,000	$1,388	you save $1,612	28-day
25	$3,125	$1,388	you save $1,737	28-day
26	$3,250	$1,388	you save $1,862	28-day
27	$3,375	$1,388	you save $1,987	28-day
28	$3,500	$1,388	you save $2,112	28-day
29	$3,625	$1,513	you save $2,112	day
30	$3,750	$1,638	you save $2,112	day
31	$3,875	$1,763	you save $2,112	day
32	$4,000	$1,887	you save $2,113	week
33	$4,125	$1,887	you save $2,238	week
34	$4,250	$1,887	you save $2,363	week
35	$4,375	$1,887	you save $2,488	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.