When is it cheaper to rent a Cat 320 on the 28-day rate?

From day 28. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $29,000 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.

Cat 320

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MITCH Cohen · Excavators - Crawler

Day: $1,000
Week: $7,250
28 days: $29,000

Daily stops winning on

Never, on this card

Seven days at the day rate still cost less than the week rate on this card.

Weekly stops winning on

day 28

28 days at the day rate would be $28,000. On the 28-day rate it is $29,000.

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 Cat 320, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$1,000	$1,000	—	day
2	$2,000	$2,000	—	day
3	$3,000	$3,000	—	day
4	$4,000	$4,000	—	day
5	$5,000	$5,000	—	day
6	$6,000	$6,000	—	day
7	$7,000	$7,250	costs $250 more	week
8	$8,000	$8,250	costs $250 more	week
9	$9,000	$9,250	costs $250 more	week
10	$10,000	$10,250	costs $250 more	week
11	$11,000	$11,250	costs $250 more	week
12	$12,000	$12,250	costs $250 more	week
13	$13,000	$13,250	costs $250 more	week
14	$14,000	$14,500	costs $500 more	week
15	$15,000	$15,500	costs $500 more	week
16	$16,000	$16,500	costs $500 more	week
17	$17,000	$17,500	costs $500 more	week
18	$18,000	$18,500	costs $500 more	week
19	$19,000	$19,500	costs $500 more	week
20	$20,000	$20,500	costs $500 more	week
21	$21,000	$21,750	costs $750 more	week
22	$22,000	$22,750	costs $750 more	week
23	$23,000	$23,750	costs $750 more	week
24	$24,000	$24,750	costs $750 more	week
25	$25,000	$25,750	costs $750 more	week
26	$26,000	$26,750	costs $750 more	week
27	$27,000	$27,750	costs $750 more	week
28	$28,000	$29,000	costs $1,000 more	28-day
29	$29,000	$30,000	costs $1,000 more	day
30	$30,000	$31,000	costs $1,000 more	day
31	$31,000	$32,000	costs $1,000 more	day
32	$32,000	$33,000	costs $1,000 more	day
33	$33,000	$34,000	costs $1,000 more	day
34	$34,000	$35,000	costs $1,000 more	day
35	$35,000	$36,250	costs $1,250 more	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.