When is it cheaper to rent a 30G John Deer Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $360 day rate would be $1,080, but the weekly rate caps it at $995.

When is it cheaper to rent a 30G John Deer Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,550 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.

30G John Deer Excavator

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kelly campbell · Excavators - Mini

Day: $360
Week: $995
28 days: $2,550

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $1,080. On the week rate it is $995.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $5,760. On the 28-day rate it is $2,550.

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 30G John Deer Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$360	$360	—	day
2	$720	$720	—	day
3	$1,080	$995	you save $85	week
4	$1,440	$995	you save $445	week
5	$1,800	$995	you save $805	week
6	$2,160	$995	you save $1,165	week
7	$2,520	$995	you save $1,525	week
8	$2,880	$1,355	you save $1,525	week
9	$3,240	$1,715	you save $1,525	week
10	$3,600	$1,990	you save $1,610	week
11	$3,960	$1,990	you save $1,970	week
12	$4,320	$1,990	you save $2,330	week
13	$4,680	$1,990	you save $2,690	week
14	$5,040	$1,990	you save $3,050	week
15	$5,400	$2,350	you save $3,050	week
16	$5,760	$2,550	you save $3,210	28-day
17	$6,120	$2,550	you save $3,570	28-day
18	$6,480	$2,550	you save $3,930	28-day
19	$6,840	$2,550	you save $4,290	28-day
20	$7,200	$2,550	you save $4,650	28-day
21	$7,560	$2,550	you save $5,010	28-day
22	$7,920	$2,550	you save $5,370	28-day
23	$8,280	$2,550	you save $5,730	28-day
24	$8,640	$2,550	you save $6,090	28-day
25	$9,000	$2,550	you save $6,450	28-day
26	$9,360	$2,550	you save $6,810	28-day
27	$9,720	$2,550	you save $7,170	28-day
28	$10,080	$2,550	you save $7,530	28-day
29	$10,440	$2,910	you save $7,530	day
30	$10,800	$3,270	you save $7,530	day
31	$11,160	$3,545	you save $7,615	week
32	$11,520	$3,545	you save $7,975	week
33	$11,880	$3,545	you save $8,335	week
34	$12,240	$3,545	you save $8,695	week
35	$12,600	$3,545	you save $9,055	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.