When is it cheaper to rent a 30ft Boom Lift #20 by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $365 day rate would be $1,095, but the weekly rate caps it at $875.

When is it cheaper to rent a 30ft Boom Lift #20 on the 28-day rate?

From day 9. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,425 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.

30ft Boom Lift #20

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2Quip Corp - DBA RME & 2QUIP.AI · Manlifts - Boom - Articulated - Compact

Day: $365
Week: $875
28 days: $1,425

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $1,095. On the week rate it is $875.

Weekly stops winning on

day 9

9 days at the day rate would be $3,285. On the 28-day rate it is $1,425.

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 30ft Boom Lift #20, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$365	$365	—	day
2	$730	$730	—	day
3	$1,095	$875	you save $220	week
4	$1,460	$875	you save $585	week
5	$1,825	$875	you save $950	week
6	$2,190	$875	you save $1,315	week
7	$2,555	$875	you save $1,680	week
8	$2,920	$1,240	you save $1,680	week
9	$3,285	$1,425	you save $1,860	28-day
10	$3,650	$1,425	you save $2,225	28-day
11	$4,015	$1,425	you save $2,590	28-day
12	$4,380	$1,425	you save $2,955	28-day
13	$4,745	$1,425	you save $3,320	28-day
14	$5,110	$1,425	you save $3,685	28-day
15	$5,475	$1,425	you save $4,050	28-day
16	$5,840	$1,425	you save $4,415	28-day
17	$6,205	$1,425	you save $4,780	28-day
18	$6,570	$1,425	you save $5,145	28-day
19	$6,935	$1,425	you save $5,510	28-day
20	$7,300	$1,425	you save $5,875	28-day
21	$7,665	$1,425	you save $6,240	28-day
22	$8,030	$1,425	you save $6,605	28-day
23	$8,395	$1,425	you save $6,970	28-day
24	$8,760	$1,425	you save $7,335	28-day
25	$9,125	$1,425	you save $7,700	28-day
26	$9,490	$1,425	you save $8,065	28-day
27	$9,855	$1,425	you save $8,430	28-day
28	$10,220	$1,425	you save $8,795	28-day
29	$10,585	$1,790	you save $8,795	day
30	$10,950	$2,155	you save $8,795	day
31	$11,315	$2,300	you save $9,015	week
32	$11,680	$2,300	you save $9,380	week
33	$12,045	$2,300	you save $9,745	week
34	$12,410	$2,300	you save $10,110	week
35	$12,775	$2,300	you save $10,475	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 · 9 days: $1,425
Rental protection (RPP): $213.75
Estimated total: $1,638.75

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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.