When is it cheaper to rent a dump trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $175 day rate would be $1,050, but the weekly rate caps it at $900.

When is it cheaper to rent a dump trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,800 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.

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Deems Manson · Dump Trailer

Day: $175
Week: $900
28 days: $2,800

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,050. On the week rate it is $900.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $3,850. On the 28-day rate it is $2,800.

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 dump trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$175	$175	—	day
2	$350	$350	—	day
3	$525	$525	—	day
4	$700	$700	—	day
5	$875	$875	—	day
6	$1,050	$900	you save $150	week
7	$1,225	$900	you save $325	week
8	$1,400	$1,075	you save $325	week
9	$1,575	$1,250	you save $325	week
10	$1,750	$1,425	you save $325	week
11	$1,925	$1,600	you save $325	week
12	$2,100	$1,775	you save $325	week
13	$2,275	$1,800	you save $475	week
14	$2,450	$1,800	you save $650	week
15	$2,625	$1,975	you save $650	week
16	$2,800	$2,150	you save $650	week
17	$2,975	$2,325	you save $650	week
18	$3,150	$2,500	you save $650	week
19	$3,325	$2,675	you save $650	week
20	$3,500	$2,700	you save $800	week
21	$3,675	$2,700	you save $975	week
22	$3,850	$2,800	you save $1,050	28-day
23	$4,025	$2,800	you save $1,225	28-day
24	$4,200	$2,800	you save $1,400	28-day
25	$4,375	$2,800	you save $1,575	28-day
26	$4,550	$2,800	you save $1,750	28-day
27	$4,725	$2,800	you save $1,925	28-day
28	$4,900	$2,800	you save $2,100	28-day
29	$5,075	$2,975	you save $2,100	day
30	$5,250	$3,150	you save $2,100	day
31	$5,425	$3,325	you save $2,100	day
32	$5,600	$3,500	you save $2,100	day
33	$5,775	$3,675	you save $2,100	day
34	$5,950	$3,700	you save $2,250	week
35	$6,125	$3,700	you save $2,425	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.